Yung-ming Yen-shou China (904 - 975) Timeline Buddhist : Zen / Chan Poems by Yung-ming Yen-shou Books

There is scholarly debate about the life of Yung-ming Yen-shou. He is usually identified as the third patriarch of the Pure Land branch of Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism in China.

He is said to have been a military official who converted from Confucianism to Buddhism.

His writings include Treatise on the Common End of Myriad Good Deeds and Preface to the Teaching on Induction into the Bodhisattva Precepts.

Poems by Yung-ming Yen-shou

• Immovable Mind
• Yen-shou's Poem of Enligthenment

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