Huangbo Xiyun

Huangbo Xiyun (Chinese黄 檗 希 运, Pinyin Huangbo Xiyun, W.-G. Huang -po Hsi- yun, Japanese Obaku Kiun; † 850 ) was one of the largest Chinese Chan master Linji Yixuan and teachers of (Jap. Rinzai Gigen ) and thus also a pioneer of the Chinese Linji Chan and the Japanese Rinzai Zen.

From a young age he left his parents and went to the mountain Huangbo in a monastery. Among his teachers were Baizhang Huaihai and Nansen Fugan. Huangbos doctrine of " one spirit " in a very concise and simple formulations containing the essence of Zen. You should lead the student to the intuitive ( immediate ) experience of the truth, without the interposition of conceptual thinking and random feelings. The traditional text " Huangboshan duanji chanshi zhuanxin fayao " (Chinese黄 檗 山 断 际 禅师 传 心法 要, Pinyin Huángbòshān duànjì chánshī zhuànxīn fǎyào, W.-G. Huang -po Tuan -shan -chi -shih ch'uan - ch'an hsin fa -yao ), written by the scholarly public servant Pei Xiu ( 797-870 ;裴休chinese, Pinyin Peixiu, W.-G. P'ei Hsiu, he also led the construction of the last monastery of Huangbo ) and consisting of teachings of the Master from dialogues with students and from anecdotes, is considered successful attempt to indicate in words a spirit that defies all words.

Huangbo Xiyun and his temple Wanfu -si (万 福寺) be in Japan to name the donors Obaku school and the temple Mampuku -ji. The Chinese monk Ingen Longqi (Japanese Ingen ), who had set itself the goal to reform the Japanese Zen of the 17th century, adopted the name of his tribe monastery Wanfu -si (Japanese Mampuku -ji) on Huangbo shan (黄 檗 山, Japanese Obaku san ) to give the authority of great Chinese master his concerns to a good start. In addition to the much larger schools Rinzai and Soto - Shuu Shuu also has the Obaku shū whose main temple stands Mampuku -ji in Uji, still important today in Japan. Teaching method is - as in Rinzai - the koan training, but also elements of " the Pure Land " ( Amida Buddhism) as the recitation of the name of Buddha are practiced.