Tu-shun
Tu-shun or Fa-shun (557–640). First patriarch of the Chinese Buddhist Hua-yen school. Beginning life in the army, he became a monk at 18 and originated the theory of the ‘ten gates’, which were reworked by Fa-tsang, the founder of the school.
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