Asian Art

East Mountain Teaching

East Mountain Teaching (traditional Chinese: 東山法門; simplified Chinese: 东山法门; pinyin: Dōngshān Fǎmén; lit. 'East Mountain Dharma Gate') denotes the teachings of the Fourth Ancestor Dayi Daoxin, his student and heir the Fifth Ancestor Daman Hongren, and their students and lineage of Chan Buddhism. East Mountain Teaching gets its name from the East Mountain Temple on the "Twin Peaks" (Chinese: 雙峰) of Huangmei in present-day Hubei. The East Mountain Temple was on the easternmost peak of the two. Its modern name is Wuzu Temple (Chinese: 五祖寺). The two most famous disciples of Hongren, Huineng and Yuquan Shenxiu, both continued the East Mountain teaching.

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• ▸Hakata-ori
• ▸Foreshore Estate
• ▸Dream of the Red Chamber

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