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Ta-chu Hui-hai

Ta-chu Hui-hai

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | | Copyright

Ta-chu Hui-hai (8th cent. CE). Pupil of Ma-tsu Tao-i, who cared for his teacher in his old age. While doing so, he produced the manuscript of a work on sudden enlightenment, which Ma-tsu read. He exclaimed, ‘Here is a great pearl, the perfect and bright illumination which penetrates everywhere without impediment.’ For that reason Hui-hai became known as Ta-chu, great pearl. His work was edited by Miao-hsieh and appeared as Tun-wu ju-tao yao-men lun, in which the southern school of Ch'an is integrated with the Mahāyāna sūtras.
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Ta-chu Hui-hai. A T'ang dynasty Chinese Ch'an monk. Very little is known of him, including the dates of his life, other than that he was a disciple of the famous monk Ma-tsu Tao-i (709–88), and that he wrote the influential treatise Essential Gate for Entry Into Sudden Enlightenment (Chin., Tun-wu ju dao yao-men), which is still extant.
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DAMIEN KEOWN. "Ta-chu Hui-hai." A Dictionary of Buddhism. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

DAMIEN KEOWN. "Ta-chu Hui-hai." A Dictionary of Buddhism. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O108-TachuHuihai.html

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