death_date birth_place teacher color title article_title background birth_date school name
788 china nanyue huairang black chan master mazu daoyi
 #ffd 068 709 chan buddhism mazu daoyi
mazu daoyi

also , `` baso '' redirects here .
for the island , see baso -lrb- island -rrb- .
mazu daoyi -lrb- 709 -- 788 -rrb- -lrb- , japanese : baso dōitsu -rrb- was an influential abbot of chan buddhism during the tang dynasty .
the earliest recorded use of the term `` chan school '' is from his `` extensive records '' .
master ma 's teaching style of `` strange words and extraordinary actions '' became paradigmatic zen lore .
