Tradition
Hongzhi Zhengjue
Overview
Hongzhi Zhengjue (Chinese: 宏智正覺; pinyin: Hóngzhì Zhēngjué; Wade–Giles: Hung-chih Cheng-chueh, Japanese: Wanshi Shōgaku), also sometimes called Tiantong Zhengjue (Chinese: 天童正覺; pinyin: Tiāntóng Zhēngjué; Japanese: Tendō Shōgaku) (1091–1157), was an influential Chinese Chan Buddhist monk who authored or compiled several influential texts. Hongzhi's conception of silent illumination is of particular importance to the Chinese Caodong Chan and Japanese Sōtō Zen schools. Hongzhi was also the author of the Book of Equanimity, an important collection of kōans.
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Possible passages
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In the opening and shutting of his gates of heaven, cannot he do so as a female bird? While his intelligence reaches in every direction, cannot he (appear to) be without knowledge? 3. (The Tao) produces (all things) and nourishes them; it produces them and does not claim them as its own; it does all, and yet does not boast of it; it presides over all, and yet does not control them. This is what is called 'The…
Laozi, The Tao Teh King
States what Hongzhi Zhengjue is.
This attitude existed in Europe in the eighteenth century, but perished in the French Revolution: romanticism, Rousseau, and the guillotine put an end to it. In China, though wars and revolutions have occurred constantly, Confucian calm has survived them all, making them less terrible for the participants, and making all who were not immediately involved hold aloof. It is bad manners in China to attack your…
Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China
Close in meaning to Hongzhi Zhengjue; the term itself is not named.
The greatest name in their literature, or indeed in their history, is that of Confucius, a philosopher and religious teacher who lived about 500 years B.C., and who left a number of books expounding and enforcing the great maxims of morality. During all the revolutions that have since elapsed, the doctrines of Confucius have retained their hold of the Chinese mind, and the religion of China consists in little more…
Voltaire, Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume
Close in meaning to Hongzhi Zhengjue; the term itself is not named.
Related ideas
- Koan
- Sōtō
- Shikantaza
- Blue Cliff Record
- Zen
- Chan Buddhism
- Buddhists
- Chinese language
- Caodong school
- Shanxi
- Taigen Dan Leighton
- Book of Equanimity
Place in the tradition
Part of Zen.