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Huang-po Hsi-yün
,
(Hsi-yün of the Huang-po mountain, Jap.,
baku Kiun;
d. 850 CE).
Ch’an/Zen master, dharma-successor (
hassu
) of
Pai-chang Huai-hai
and teacher of
Lin-chi I-hsüan
, through whom he becomes one of the forefathers of the
Rinzai
school. His teachings were gathered by P’ei Hsiu
(Jap., Haiky
) under the (shortened) title
Chu’an-hsin-fa-yao
, a classic text of the Ch’an tradition, which expounds the teaching of universal mind.
Huang-ti
(the Yellow Emperor)
:
Huang-ti nei-ching
(medical text)
:
Huang-t’ing Ching
(Chin., ‘treatise on the yellow castle’). A Taoist work,
c.
3rd cent. CE, describing the deities of the body (
shen
), and also the practices which lead to immortality (e.g.
ch’i
and
fang-shih
). The recitation of the title invokes the deities and wards off evil from the body.
Hua T’o
(developer of Taoist exercises)
:

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