DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-G037-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved March 28, 2024, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/zongmi-780-841/v-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved March 28, 2024, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/zongmi-780-841/v-1
Article Summary
Zongmi was a Chinese Buddhist Chan (Zen) and Huayan scholar, traditionally reckoned as the fifth ‘patriarch’ both in the Heze line of Southern Chan and in the Huayan scholastic tradition. He is important for his revision of Huayan doctrine, his commentaries to the Yuanjuejing (Scripture of Perfect Enlightenment), his accounts of Chan teachings and his contribution to the theory of the essential unity of the three teachings of Buddhism, Confucianism and Daoism.
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Gregory, Peter N.. Zongmi (780–841), 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-G037-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/zongmi-780-841/v-1.
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