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Fa-jung

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Fa-jung (594–657). The founder of the Oxhead school of Chinese Ch'an Buddhism, named after its headquarters on Oxhead Mountain (Chin., Niu-t'ou shan). During the time when the controversy between the Northern and Southern Schools (see Northern–Southern School Controversy) was at its height, he attempted to chart a new path that would reconcile the two. He stressed the need to develop both meditative concentration and wisdom in tandem, the first through meditation, the second through doctrinal and scriptural study. He also accepted the T'ien-t'ai doctrine that all phenomena whatsoever have the Buddha-nature (as opposed to the Southern School's insistence that only sentient beings enjoyed this).

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Fa-jung

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Fa-jung (Jap., Hōyū), 594–657, Ch'an Buddhist master, who founded the Gozu (‘Oxhead’) school, which is Ch'an/Zen related, but is not reckoned as belonging to the Five Houses/Seven Schools (goke-shichishū) of the mainstream tradition. The Oxhead school appears to have been eclectic, drawing on what it regarded as wisdom in other traditions.

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JOHN BOWKER. "Fa-jung." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

JOHN BOWKER. "Fa-jung." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-Fajung.html

JOHN BOWKER. "Fa-jung." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-Fajung.html

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