Nine Mountains school of Seon

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Doui, a student of Zhizang and Baizhang who established the Gaji san school (迦智山) at Borimsa.

The Nine Mountains school of Seon (K. Kusan Sŏnmun 九山禪門) were the major strands of the Korean Seon, founded in the Unified Silla period in the 8th or 9th century.[1][2]

The Princeton Dictionary states:

Due to severe opposition from the exegetical traditions supported by the court, especially Hwaŏm (C. Huayan), Korean adepts who returned from China with the new teachings of Chan (pronounced Sŏn in Korean) established monasteries far away from the Silla capital of Kyŏngju to propagate the new practice. At least nine such mountain monasteries appeared during the latter Unified Silla and early Koryŏ dynasty, which soon developed into independent lines of Sŏn. Each line was named after the mountain (san) on which the monastery of its founder was built.[1]
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Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. Kusan Sŏnmun
  2. ↑ "The Seonjong Gusan [9 Holy Zen-sect Buddhist Mountains]". 
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