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About Dongshan Liangjie

Dongshan Liangjie (807–869) was a Chan Buddhist monk of ninth-century China. He founded the Caodong school, which was transmitted to Japan in the thirteenth century by Dōgen and developed into the Sōtō school of Zen. Dongshan is also known for the poetic Five Ranks.
Tang emissaries to Sogdian King Varkhuman in Samarkand, 648–651 CE, Afrasiab murals

The most prominent Buddhist monks of the Tang dynasty

25
Jul
2022
Biography, Monks
  • Amoghavajra

  • Painting of Xuanzang. Japan, Kamakura Period (14th century).

    Xuanzang

  • Budai

  • Zhaozhou Congshen

  • Guanxiu

  • Gikū

  • Jizang

  • Kuījī, also known as Ji, an exponent of Yogācāra, was a Chinese monk and a prominent disciple of Xuanzang. His posthumous name was Cí'ēn dàshī, The Great Teacher of Cien Monastery, after the Daci'en Temple or Great Monastery of Compassionate Grace, which was located in Chang'an, the main capital of the Tang Dynasty. The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda was built in Daci'en Temple in 652. According to biographies, he was sent to the imperial translation bureau headed by Xuanzang, from whom he later would learn Sanskrit, Abhidharma, and Yogācāra.

    Kuiji

  • Vajrabodhi

  • Dongshan Liangjie

  • +51
Bodhidharma with Dazu Huike. Painting by Sesshū Tōyō, 15th century.

Chan Buddhist monks – The spirit of the Bodhidharma

13
Jul
2022
Biography, Zen
  • Hsuan Hua

  • Sheng-yen

  • Zhaozhou Congshen

  • Gikū

  • Moheyan

  • Dongshan Liangjie

  • Kwang Sheng

  • Liangshan Yuanguan

  • Mazu Daoyi

  • Nanyue Huairang

  • +57
Taizan Maezumi

The most prominent Sōtō Zen Buddhists around the world

31
May
2022
Biography, Zen
  • Roshi Joan Halifax

  • Zoketsu Norman Fischer

  • Maylie Scott

  • Taigen Dan Leighton

  • Shunryū Suzuki

  • Sheng-yen

  • Reb Anderson

  • Mel Weitsman

  • Edward Espe Brown

  • Jan Chozen Bays

  • +75

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