Chan Buddhist monks

Dajian Huineng or Hui-neng (; trad. 638-713), also commonly known as the Sixth Patriarch or Sixth Ancestor of Chan (traditional Chinese: 禪宗六祖), is a semi-legendary but central figure in the early history of Chinese Chan Buddhism.

Chinese Chan Buddhist monk (?–866)

Jianzhi Sengcan (; Pīnyīn: Jiànzhì Sēngcàn; Wade–Giles: ; Rōmaji: ) is known as the Third Chinese Patriarch of Chán after Bodhidharma and thirtieth Patriarch after Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha.

Chinese Buddhist monk

thumb|Muqi, Detail of dusk over fisher's village, from the handscroll "Eight Views of Xiaoxiang|Eight Views of Xiao and Xiang", circa 1250, Collected in Nezu Art Museum

Chinese monk and poet

Chinese Buddhist philosopher (709–788)

Shi Xuyun or Hsu Yun (; 5 September 1840? – 13 October 1959) was a renowned Chinese Chan Buddhist master and an influential Buddhist teacher of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Ingen Ryūki (, ) (December 7, 1592 – May 19, 1673) was a Chinese poet, calligrapher, and monk of Linji Chan Buddhism from China. He is most known for founding the Ōbaku school of Zen in Japan.

Chinese Hongzhou school monk

Chinese Buddhist philosopher

Esteemed chán master of the Tang Dynasty

American Buddhist monk (1918-1995)

Chinese Buddhist patriarch

Sheng Yen (), born Zhang Baokang (), (January 22, 1931 – February 3, 2009) was a Taiwanese Buddhist monk, religious scholar, and writer. He was one of the mainstream teachers of Chan Buddhism. He was a 57th generational dharma heir of Linji Yixuan in the Linji school (Japanese: Rinzai) and a third-generation dharma heir of Hsu Yun. In the Caodong (Japanese: Sōtō) lineage, Sheng Yen was a 52nd-generation Dharma heir of Dongshan Liangjie (807-869), and a direct Dharma heir of Dongchu (1908–1977).

Sogdian Buddhist monk and translator (died 280)

Chan Buddhist monk who lived in the Southern Song

12th-century Chinese Chan (Zen) master

Chan patriarch

Chinese Buddhist monk

Heze Shenhui (Chinese:菏澤神會/菏泽神会; Wade–Giles: Shen-hui; Japanese: Kataku Jinne, 684–758) was a Chinese Buddhist monk of the so-called "Southern School" of Chan/Zen, who "claimed to have studied under Huineng."

Zen master (1177-1249)

Chinese artist (1610-1663)

Chinese Chán Buddhist teacher and author

Chinese painter (1612-1674)

Chinese Zen master

Chinese Zen Patriarch

Tang dynasty person CBDB = 93364

Ming dynasty person CBDB = 35140 (1335–1418)

Buddhist teacher

Chinese Chan monk who compiled the Blue Cliff Record

Chinese Buddhist master

Buddhist scholar-monk, patriarch of Huayan

Heshang Moheyan () was a late 8th century Buddhist monk associated with the East Mountain Teaching. Moheyan (摩訶衍) is a brief translation of Mahayana in Chinese, so the name literally means a Mahayana monk. He became famous for representing Chan Buddhism in the so called "Council of Lhasa," a debate between adherents of the Indian teachings of "gradual enlightenment" and the Chinese teachings of "sudden enlightenment," which according to tradition was won by the "gradual teachings."

Zen Buddhist (665 ~ 713 )

Chinese Buddhist monk

Chinese Buddhist

Buddhist monk (1546–1623)

American martial artist

Fenggan (, Japanese Bukan, fl. 9th century) was a Chinese Chan monk-poet lived in the Tang dynasty, associated with Hanshan and Shide in the famed "Tiantai Trio" (天台三聖).

Chinese writer and Chan monk

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Jiaoran (; 730–799), also known by his courtesy name Qingzhou (), was a Tang dynasty Chinese poet and Buddhist monk. Jiaoran wrote more than 470 poems and was one of the three major Tang dynasty poet-monks (), along with Guanxiu (832–912) and Qiji (863–937). He was the 12th generation grandson of Xie An (320–385), a Jin dynasty (266–420) statesman who, despite his lack of military ability, led Jin through a major crisis—attacks by Former Qin (351–394). His friend, Lu Yu, is venerated as the Sage of Tea for his contribution to Chinese tea culture and the writer of The Classic of Tea.

Tang dynasty person CBDB = 92127

Chinese Zen Buddhist monk

Taiwanese buddhist monk

Chinese Buddhist monk

Buddhist monk

Chinese Chan Buddhist monk

Chinese zen master

Tang dynasty Chan Buddhist monk

Malaysian monk

Zhenzhou Puhua (Chinese: traditional: 鎮州普化, simplified: 普化, pinyin: Zhenzhou Pǔhuà; Japanese: Jinshu Fuke, honorifically Fuke Zenji (lit. "Zen master Fuke")—allegedly ca. 770–840 or 860), also called '''P'u-k'o, and best known by his Japanese name, Fuke', was a Chinese Chan (Zen) master, monk-priest, wanderer and eccentric, mentioned in the Record of Linji (臨剤録, C. Linji lu, J. Rinzai roku). Fuke was used to create a legend for the komusō samurai-monks that appeared in Edo-period Japan. They used their self-named Fuke Zen to establish a constructed connection to Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism in

Chinese Chan-master