Yung-chia Hsüan-chüeh

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Yung-chia Hsüan-chüeh (Jap., Yōka Genkaku; 665–713). Last of the great masters of the school of Hui-neng. He combined the philosophy of Tʾien-tʾai with Chʾan practice, and related both to Mādhyamaka. These views are reflected in a poem attributed to him, Shōdōka, ‘Hymn on the Experience of Tao/truth’.

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