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Buddhist : Zen / Chan

10th Century

China
(East Asia)

Yung-ming Yen-shou

Timeline (904 - 975)

Poems by Yung-ming Yen-shou
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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 often 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

Recommended Books

Essays in Zen Buddhism, First Series, by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

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The Golden Age of Zen: Zen Masters of the T'ang Dynasty, by John C.H. Wu

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