道隆

Southern-Sòng Chán attendant-disciple (shìzhě ménrén 侍者門人) of Yǎnxī Guǎngwén 偃溪廣聞 (1189–1263). Co-editor of his master’s yǔlù KR6q0302. Lifedates unrecorded.

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name: 道隆 pinyinName: Dàolóng alternateNames: [蘭溪道隆, Lánxī Dàolóng, 蘭谿道隆, 道隆蘭溪, 蘭溪隆, 大覺禪師] dynasty: 南宋 birthDate: 1213 deathDate: 1278 cbdbId: dilaAuthorityId: A001960

Dàolóng 道隆 (Lánxī Dàolóng 蘭溪道隆)

Southern-Sòng Yángqí-branch Línjì Chán master, hào Lánxī 蘭溪. Native of Fújiāng 涪江 (Fúlíng, modern Sìchuān), surname Rǎn 冉. Per DILA A001960 and Shì Dōngchū’s ZhōngRì Fójiào jiāotōng shǐ: 1213 – Kōan 1.5 (May/June 1278; per Japanese reign dating at Kenchōji). Received the tonsure at Chéngdū Dàcí sì 成都大慈寺 at age thirteen, then travelled east and south — studying with Wújùn Shīfàn 無準師範 (1178–1249), Chījué Dàochōng 道冲, and Běijiàn Jūjiǎn 北磵居簡 without decisive awakening — and finally took refuge at Yángshān under 慧性 Wúmíng Huìxìng (1162–1237), where on hearing the Dōngshān niú guò chuānglíng 東山牛過窗欞 gōngàn he was enlightened. Named as co-editor (shìzhě 侍者) of Huìxìng’s yǔlù (KR6q0312), compiled c. 1240–1243 while he was at Yángshān.

From Yángshān he moved to Tiāntóng 天童 in Míngzhōu, where, hearing that Chán was taking root in Japan, he crossed to Kyūshū in Kanji 4 (1246) with the disciple Yìwēng Shàorén 義翁紹仁. Received by the Kamakura shogunal regent Hōjō Tokiyori 北條時賴, he founded Kenchōji 建長寺 at Kamakura (completed Kenchō 1 / 1249), the first purely Chán monastic establishment in Japan. Posthumously styled Dàjué chánshī 大覺禪師 — the first chánshī title conferred by the Japanese imperial court and the origin of the Daikaku-ha 大覺派 line of Japanese Rinzai Zen. Thirty-four Japanese and Chinese dharma-heirs including Yìwēng, Wěiháng 葦航, Wújí 無及, Yuēwēng 約翁, and Hóngbiàn 宏辯. His Chinese yǔlù in three juan, a Bōrě xīn jīng zhù 般若心經注, and a shíyí (supplement) survive. He is the principal Chinese channel by which the 松源 Sōngyuán → 無明 Wúmíng current entered Japanese Zen.