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Tianru Weize

Type Figure Region China Time 1286–1343 Also known as Weize、Monk Tianru

Tianru Weize was a renowned Linji Chan monk of the Yuan dynasty, a native of Taizhou, born at the end of the Southern Song and dying in the third yea…

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  1. c. 1300–1310Taizhou · TaizhouWeize was born in Taizhou, ordaining at a local temple in his youth and receiving the full precepts, studying Vinaya and scriptures, laying the foundation for his later studies under Zhongfeng Mingben at Tianmu Mountain.
  2. c. 1310–1323Tianmu Mountain · Tianmu MountainWeize traveled to Tianmu Mountain in Zhejiang to study under the eminent Linji master Zhongfeng Mingben, delving deeply into Chan and inheriting Mingben's emphasis on both teaching and Chan and on actual practice. After Mingben's passing, Weize was chosen as his dharma heir, continuing his lineage.
  3. 1325–1343Monasteries of Jiangsu and Zhejiang · Jiangsu and ZhejiangIn middle age and beyond Weize successively headed famous monasteries in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, taking the sobriquet Tianru, by which his disciples called him Monk Tianru. He remained active in the Chan forests of Jiangnan during the Zhizheng era, with numerous disciples, his Chan influence extending into the late Yuan and early Ming. He passed away in 1343 at the age of fifty-eight.

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