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1027 chán / zen liangshan yuanguan jiangxia , china touzi yiqing liangshan yuanguan black chán master fushan fayuan yinyang qingpou dayang jingxuan
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dayang jingxuan

dayang jingxuan -lrb- ; -rrb- was a zen buddhist monk during the early song dynasty .
during his life , he was apparently the only living teacher representing caodong/s ōtō school , and he was the last monk of that tradition to be mentioned in the influential `` transmission of the lamp '' , compiled in 1004 .
however , as that work was compiled during his lifetime , it lacked biographical information .
a biography did not appear until the `` xudeng lu '' of 1101 .
he left his birth city to become a monk at chongxiao temple in jinling .
his teacher there was named zhitong , but dayang soon left when he was 19 .
he studied with yuanjiao liaoyi for a time , but eventually moved on , finally settling on liangshan yuanguan as his teacher .
dayang jingxuan is an important figure in the caodong/s ōtō zen lineage because he was apparently the only remaining representative of the caodong/s ōtō tradition during his lifetime .
furthermore , he is significant because the lineage effectively died out with him , but through highly unusual means , the lineage was passed on to someone he had never met .
juefan huihong 's biographical compilation of 1119 , the `` chanlin sengbao zhuan '' -lrb- chronicle of the sangha treasure in the groves of chan -rrb- , suggests that touzi yiqing was the `` true son '' , or student , of dayang .
the `` xudeng lu '' of 1101 lists touzi and nine others as disciples of dayang .
however , it explains that touzi did not actually receive dharma transmission from dayang , but from fushan fayuan .
fushan had been a student of dayang , but he himself had not received dharma transmission from dayang either .
the scholar morten schlütter notes that this form of lineage transfer `` has no real parallel in early chan literature '' .
this refers to the fact that touzi was able to be considered the immediate heir to dayang 's lineage without having met him , and that fayuan was able to hold dayang 's lineage `` in trust '' without actually being a bona fide heir .
schlütter further interprets huihong 's likely embellished account as an attempt to strengthen the rather weak link between touzi and the last caodong monk recorded in the `` transmission of the lamp '' in order to solidify the legitimacy of the lineage .
