Jianzhi Sengcan - Limited Sources

Limited Sources

The historical record of Sengcan is extremely limited. Of all the Chan patriarchs, Sengcan is the most ambiguous and the least known:

We have no certain information regarding Seng-ts’an. The course of his life lies in darkness.”

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