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Hongzhou school

Overview

The Hongzhou school (Chinese: 洪州宗; pinyin: Hóngzhōu Zōng) was a Chinese school of Chan of the Tang period (618–907), which started with Mazu Daoyi and included key figures Dazhu Huihai, Baizhang Huaihai, his student Huangbo Xiyun, Nanquan Puyuan and his student Zhaozhou Congshen.

The name Hongzhou refers to the Tang dynasty province that was located in the northern part of present-day Jiangxi province (the area around Nanchang). Mazu taught here during his last years and some of his disciples also taught in this region.

During the Song dynasty (960–1279), many texts were written which constructed encounter dialogues that included Hongzhou school masters as the main characters. These texts present them as iconoclastic and antinomian figures. However, modern scholars do not consider these later Song sources as reliable depictions of these historical figures.

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_John Hoskyns_ Vice P. R. S. _July_ 17_th._, 1686. [Illustration: _The Roman Abacus out of Marcus Velserus_ _The Chinese Abacus from the Chinese Dictionary containing nine places or degrees_ 一二三四五六七八九 I 一 yĕ̇ II 二 th́ III 三 san̄ IV 四 sú V 五 v̀ VI 六 lŏ̇ VII 七 ziĕ̇ VIII 八 pă̇ IX 九 kièn X 十 xĕ̇ XI 十 xĕ̇ 一 yĕ̇ X 十 xĕ̇ II 二 lh́ X 十 xĕ̇ III 三 san̄ X 十 xĕ̇ V 五 v̀ XX 廾 lh́xĕ̇ XX 二 lh́ 十 xĕ̇ XXX 卅 san̄xĕ̇ XXX 三 san̄ 十 xĕ̇…
Royal Society, Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol. 3
Close in meaning to Hongzhou school; the term itself is not named.
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Technical Schools +---+---+---+---+---+ | | | | | | | | | | | | +---+---+---+---+---+ 19^{th} Century _Utility_ The school system, upon the whole, has grown from the top down. During the middle ages it was essentially a cluster of professional schools—especially law and theology. Our present university comes down to us from the middle ages.
John Dewey, The School and Society Being three lectures
Close in meaning to Hongzhou school; the term itself is not named.
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Now the image was set up rather more than three hundred years after the Nirvâna of Buddha, which may be referred to the reign of king P'ing of the Chow dynasty. According to this account we may say that the diffusion of our great doctrines in the East began from the setting up of this image. If it had not been through that Maitreya, the great spiritual master who is to be the successor of the Sâkya, who could have…
Confucius, Chinese literature
Close in meaning to Hongzhou school; the term itself is not named.
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Philosophers who discussed Hongzhou school

Mazu Daoyi

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Place in the tradition

Part of Nondualism.

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