Concept
Shenhui
Overview
Heze Shenhui (Chinese:菏澤神會/菏泽神会; Wade–Giles: Shen-hui; Japanese: Kataku Jinne, 684–758) was a Chinese Buddhist monk of the so-called "Southern School" of Chan/Zen, who "claimed to have studied under Huineng."
Shenhui is notable for his strident attacks on Yuquan Shenxiu and the associated "Northern School", which was the most prominent branch of Chan Buddhism in China at the time. He accused them of propagating gradual teachings, as opposed to his own sudden teachings.
Shenhui's own lineage, called the Heze lineage (菏澤宗), probably died out around the time of the Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution in 845, with Guifeng Zongmi being the only notable monk in the lineage.
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Confucius, The Analects of Confucius
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Thou meetest him and seest not his head; thou goest behind him and seest not his back.” These contradictory expressions are called the “chain of reason.” One naturally thinks in quoting these passages of יהרה and of the African kingly name of Juba and also of _Jovis_.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
States what Shenhui is.
In this city there had resided a great Brahman, named Râdha-sâmi, a professor of the mahâyâna, of clear discernment and much wisdom, who understood everything, living by himself in spotless purity. The king of the country honored and reverenced him, and served him as his teacher. If he went to inquire for and greet him, the king did not presume to sit down alongside of him; and if, in his love and reverence, he took…
Confucius, Chinese literature
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Philosophers who discussed Shenhui
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- Prajñā (Buddhism)
- Sudden awakening
- Samadhi
- Zhuang Zhou
- Luoyang
- Śūnyatā
- Dunhuang
- Tiyong
- Nirvana
- Chinese Buddhism
- Huayan
- Guifeng Zongmi
- Huineng
- Platform Sutra
- Zen
- Chan Buddhism
- Hongzhou school
- Bodhidharma
- Buddhists
- Enlightenment in Buddhism
- Mazu Daoyi
- Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra
- Confucius
- Laozi
Place in the tradition
Part of Buddhist philosophy.