慧明

Huìmíng

Early-Táng Chán monk, the pursuer who overtook 慧能 Huìnéng (the Sixth Patriarch) at Dàyúlǐng 大庾嶺. The famous Chán probe addressed to him — bù sī shàn, bù sī è, ā nǎ gè shì míng shàngzuò běnlái miànmù 不思善，不思惡，阿那箇是明上座本來面目 (“don’t think good, don’t think evil — which is Senior Míng’s original face?“) — becomes a foundational gōngàn.