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1151 chán / zen danxia zichun china tiantong zongjue danxia zichun black chán master tiantong zongjue zhenxie qingliao
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zhenxie qingliao

zhenxie qingliao -lrb- ; -rrb- , was a chinese zen buddhist monk during the song dynasty .
he was born in anchang , an ancient city in what is now sichuan province .
according to traditional biographies , he became a monk at the age of eleven .
the scholar morten schlütter calls qingliao , along with his fellow student hongzhi zhengjue , `` the most illustrious representative of the caodong tradition in the song . ''
multiple sources contain a story about qingliao regarding an event that took place after he received dharma transmission from his teacher danxia zichun .
after leaving his teacher , he became the head monk at a monastery on mt. changlu , whose abbot was zuzhao daohe of the yunmen school .
daohe offered to allow qingliao to become the abbot of the monastery , inherit his robe , and serve as his heir .
qingliao said he would become abbot , but could not be daohe 's heir since zichun had already given him dharma transmission .
daohe later left the monastery without passing on his position , but ultimately qingliao was instructed by a fiscal commissioner named chen to take charge of the monastery .
the students there apparently were amazed at his degree of loyalty to his original teacher .
this story has historical significance because it suggests that qingliao could have accepted daohe 's offer to essentially switch heirs , indicating that teacher-student transmission was probably more flexible than often thought .
zhenxie qingliao is also remembered as the initial target of the koan advocate dahui zonggao 's attacks on silent illumination-style meditation .
