Statue of Vô Ngôn Thông in Kiến Sơ Temple, Gia Lâm, Hanoi, Vietnam
Wu Yantong (Chinese: 無言通, known in Vietnam as Vô Ngôn Thông, 759?-826 C.E.) was a Chinese Buddhist monk influential in the propagation of Buddhism in Vietnam.
WuYantong (Chinese: 無言通, known in Vietnam as Vô Ngôn Thông, 759?-826 C.E.) was a Chinese Buddhist monk influential in the propagation of Buddhism in Vietnam...
appearance of Thiền Buddhism. Other early Thiền schools included that of WuYantong (Chinese: 無言通; Vietnamese: Vô Ngôn Thông), which was associated with the...
appearance. Kan-shiketsu is the wato of a famous kōan (example 21 of the Wu-men-kuan). The expression stems from a time in China in which a wooden stick...
" Emperor Wu: "So what is the highest meaning of noble truth?" Bodhidharma: "There is no noble truth, there is only emptiness." Emperor Wu: "Then, who...
Hall says that in 527, Bodhidharma visited Emperor Wu of Liang, a fervent patron of Buddhism: Emperor Wu: "How much karmic merit have I earned for ordaining...
Buddha-nature?" Zhaozhou said, "Wú". "Zhaozhou" is rendered as "Chao-chou" in Wade-Giles, and pronounced "Joshu" in Japanese. "Wu" appears as "mu" in Japanese...
Ch: wú, "no"), which appears in the famous Zhaozhou's Dog koan: A monk asked, "Does a dog have a Buddha-nature or not?"; The master said, "Not [wú]!"....
Guangyan, Chinese general (b. 761) Li Wu, prince of the Tang Dynasty Theodore the Studite, Byzantine abbot (b. 759) WuYantong, Chinese Buddhist monk Zhu Kerong...
Byzantine abbot (d. 826) Wang Shizhen, general of the Tang dynasty (d. 809) WuYantong, Chinese Buddhist monk (approximate date) July 24 – Oswulf, king of Northumbria...
over faith. In addition to faith, Linji also emphasized non-seeking and "wú shì" (無事), a term often translated as "nothing-to-do," but which also has...
to Jiang Wu, these eminent Ming Chan monks emphasized self-cultivation while criticizing formulaic instructions and nominal recognition. Wu writes that...
era. Some of Chinese monks came and taught Chinese Buddhism in Annan. WuYantong (d. 820), a prominent Chinese monk in northern Vietnam, brought a new...
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