Originally Posted by
Djuan
Hui Neng certainly took the teachings South. now whats so hard for these numbskulls to connect the dots?
how does one go to say "legitimacy of ch'an comes from the south" .....????
a blind person can see, if Shaolin started in the north, with Songshan....its safe to say the temple Fujian and Quanzhou, (for example) , who are regarded as Southern Shaolin Monasteries , are branch schools of Ch'an. so
A. The Ch'an teachings, qigong and wugong, are all related to its origin, Songshan
B. This makes the claim of legitimacy coming from the south obsolete because the southern temples are branches of Songshan.
now I'm no history or religious scholar, but thats easy for me to see. why does the author have to go out of his way to dis Songshan? lol.....almost writes his work off as trash. I'd love to talk to him and hear where the motivation to disregard Songshan as the cradle of Ch'an stems.
Amituofo