death_date religion predecessor birth_place successor teacher color title students article_title background birth_date image school name
1118 chán / zen touzi yiqing yizhou , china danxia zichun touzi yiqing black chán master kumu yuanyi baofeng weizhao danxia zichun facheng dayong qilian lumen fadeng jingyin zijue shimen furong daokai
 #ffd 068 1043 furong daokai image zen.jpg caodong/s ōtō furong daokai 芙 蓉 道 楷
furong daokai

furong daokai -lrb- 1043-1118 -rrb- -lrb- ; -rrb- , was a zen buddhist monk during the song dynasty .
he was born is a city known at the time as yizhou , which is the present-day city of linyi in the southern part of shandong province .
along with his fellow student dahong baoen , daokai is considered to have returned the caodong/s ōtō zen lineage to prominence after its near extinction a generation earlier .
he was so prominent , in fact , that an extensive biography appeared in the `` xudeng lu '' , a compendium of biographies of prominent monks , in 1101 , before he had even reached the height of his career , which was quite unusual for such biographies .
the earliest full account of his life appears in juefan huihong 's biographical compilation of 1119 , the `` chanlin sengbao zhuan '' -lrb- chronicle of the sangha treasure in the groves of chan -rrb- .
this source speak very highly of daokai , despite the fact that its author was a member of the competing rinzai school .
according to his funerary inscription of 1127 , he ordained 93 students during his life , and many of these went on to become prominent teachers themselves .
