Wumen Huikai (simplified Chinese: 无门慧开; traditional Chinese: 無門慧開; pinyin: Wúmén Huìkāi; Wade-Giles: Wu-men Hui-k'ai; Japanese: Mumon Ekai) (1183–1260)...
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The Gateless Barrier (redirect from Wumen guan)
master Wumen Huikai (無門慧開; Japanese: Mumon Ekai; 1183–1260) during the Song dynasty. The title has a double meaning and can also be understood as Wumen's Barrier;...
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Barrier was assembled by the early 13th-century Chinese Zen master Wumen Huikai. Wumen struggled for six years with koan "Zhaozhou's dog", assigned to him...
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early 13th century by the Chinese Zen master Wumen Huikai (無門慧開; Japanese: Mumon Ekai; 1183–1260). Wumen's preface indicates that the volume was published...
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thinker of the Confucianist "School of Principle" Lu Jiuyuan (1139–1193) Wumen Huikai (1183–1260) Chen Xianzhang (1428–1500) Wang Yangming (1472–1529) Wang...
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texts to Chinese Sengcan, third patriarch of Chan Buddhism in China Wumen Huikai, author of the Gateless Gate Xuanzang, brought Yogacara to China to found...
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Bodhidharma is mentioned in fourteen different kōans. In The Gateless Gate by Wumen Huikai: A monk asked Zhaozhou, “What is the meaning of the ancestral teacher's...
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Gateless Barrier, a collection of koans authored by the Chan master Wumen Huikai in 1228. Wang, Youru (27 June 2017). Historical Dictionary of Chan Buddhism...
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in the 13th century koan collection The Gateless Barrier compiled by Wumen Huikai. The line "The city of God is there on the hill" is an allusion to a...
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World Fellowship of Buddhists World Peace Pagoda, Lumbini Wrathful deity Wumen Huikai Mount Wutai Xuanzang Yagirala Pannananda Yaksha Yakushi Yamabushi Yamada...
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Keqin (1063–1135) circa 1125; The Gateless Gate compiled circa 1228 by Wumen Huikai (1183–1260). Other anthologies where Mazu appears include: Records of...
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of enlightenment". The Gateless Gate is the Song dynasty Chan master Wumen Huikai's (c. 1228) compilation of 48 kōans. Case 21 is titled Yunmen (kan)shiketsu...
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States period. Xi Zhong, China's fabled first wheelmaker, featured in Wumen Huikai's The Gateless Barrier (8th verse), whose wheel is earlier alluded to...
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in his book The Dharma Bums as "The Buddha is a dried piece of turd." Wumen Huikai appended the kōan with the following verse: Lightning flashing, Sparks...
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Hsüan-sha Shih-pei) (835–908), a student of Xuefeng Yicun, is cited by Wumen Huikai (WG Wu-men Hui-k'ai, Jpn. Mumon Ekai) in explaining the title of his...
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