Career
His teacher was Xuedou Zhijian (雪竇智鑑, 1105–1192), who was the sixteenth-generation dharma descendant of Huineng. He is traditionally the originator of the terms shikantaza and shinjin-datsuraku ("casting off of body and mind").
天童如淨, 慶徳寺, 天童山
His teacher was Xuedou Zhijian (雪竇智鑑, 1105–1192), who was the sixteenth-generation dharma descendant of Huineng. He is traditionally the originator of the terms shikantaza and shinjin-datsuraku ("casting off of body and mind").