Southern School

Southern School. A school of Ch'an Buddhism in T'ang-dynasty China that traced its origins to the sixth Ch'an patriarch Hui-neng (638–713) and embraced the position of ‘sudden enlightenment’. See Northern-Southern School Controversy.

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