Huangbo Xiyun

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Huangbo Xiyun ( Chinese  黃 檗 希 運 , Pinyin Huángbò Xīyùn , W.-G. Huang-po Hsi-yün ; Japanese Ōbaku Kiun; † 850 ) was one of the greatest Chinese Chan masters and teachers of Linji Yixuan (Japanese Rinzai Gigen ) and thus also pioneers of the Chinese Linji-Chan and the Japanese Rinzai-Zen .

He left his parents at a young age and entered a monastery on Mount Huangbo. His teachers included Baizhang Huaihai and Nansen Fugan . Huangbo's doctrine of “one mind” contains the essence of Zen in very concise and simple formulations . It should lead the student to an intuitive (direct) experience of truth without the interposition of conceptual thinking and accidental feelings. The traditional text "Huangboshan duanji chanshi zhuanxin fayao" ( Chinese  黃 檗 山 斷 際 禪師 傳 心法 要 , Pinyin Huángbòshān duànjì chánshī zhuànxīn fǎyào , W.-G. Huang-poi ch'üan-chihi hsin fa-yao ), written down by the learned civil servant Pei Xiu (797-870; Chinese  裴休 , Pinyin Péixiū , W.-G. P'ei Hsiu ; he also directed the construction of the last monastery in Huangbo) and consisting of instructions from the master , from dialogues with students and from anecdotes, is considered a successful attempt to use words to refer to the one spirit that defies all concepts.

Huangbo Xiyun and his temple Wanfu-si (萬 福寺) are also named after the Ōbaku school and the temple Mampuku-ji in Japan . The Chinese monk Yinyuan Longqi (Japanese Ingen), who had set himself the goal of reforming Japanese Zen of the 17th century, took the name of his ancestral monastery Wanfu-si (Japanese Mampuku-ji) from Huangbo shan (黄 檗 山, jap. Obaku san), to get his cause off to a good start with the authority of the great Chinese master. In addition to the much larger schools Rinzai-shū and Sōtō-shū , the Ōbaku-shū, whose main temple Mampuku-ji is in Uji , is still important in Japan today . The teaching method is - as with Rinzai - the Koan training, however elements of the “ School of the Pure Land ” ( Amida Buddhism) such as the recitation of the Buddha name are also practiced.

literature

  • Mind is buddha. Calm thoughts with Zen. German by Guido Keller, Angkor Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-943839-28-9 .
  • The Spirit of Zen: The Legendary Sayings and Addresses of Huang-po . translated by Ursula von Mangoldt, OW Barth, 2011, ISBN 978-3-426-29194-8 .
  • The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind . Translated by John Blofeld, Grove Press Inc, New York, 1959, ISBN 0-394-17217-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Huangbo Xiyun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 黃 檗 希 運 (Chinese); Huángbò Xīyùn (Pinyin); Huang-po Hsi-yun (Wade-Giles); Ōbaku Kiun (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese Chan master and pioneer of Linji-Chan and Rinzai-Zen
DATE OF BIRTH 8th century or 9th century
DATE OF DEATH 850