The Spread of the Two Verses of Damei Fa Chang

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He became a monk at Yuquan Temple in Jingzhou when he was young. At the age of twenty, he received full ordination at Longxing Temple. Later, his teacher Mazu Daoyi learned the Zen method. In the twelfth year of Zhenyuan of Emperor Dezong, he moved from Tiantai to Damei Mountain, seventy miles south of Yuyao, Mingzhou. This place was the old hidden place of Han Meizi. He is known as Monk Damei in the world, and he is called Damei Fachang in practice. When Emperor Wenzong first established the temple, monks from all over invited six to seven hundred scholars. He died in September of the fourth year of Kaicheng's reign at the age of eighty-eight. His deeds can be found in Volume 15 of "Zutangji", Volume 11 of "Biography of Eminent Monks of the Song Dynasty", and Volume 7 of "Jingde Zhuan Deng Lu". The quotations of Zen Master Fochang on Zen Buddhism were compiled by his disciples as "Quotations of Zen Master Meishu Daimeishanchan". It is not transmitted in China. An old copy is kept in the Kanazawa Bunko in Japan and is now kept in Shimeiji Temple. The Japanese scholar Takahiko Hioki wrote "Quotations of Zen Master Meishu Daimeishanchan". "Related Investigations" has a collated version, published in "Kanaze Bunko Research Minutes" No. 10 (Linchuan Bookstore, 1989); Jia Jinhua's "Research on handed down Hongzhou Zen Documents" ("Wenshi" 2010, 2nd issue) is also included in the review.

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