Information AboutBaizhang |
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| 720 births | |
| 814 deaths | |
| tang dynasty buddhists | |
| zen buddhist monks and priests | |
| chinese spiritual writers | |
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Baizhang Huaihai ( and Lingyu . Baizhang established an early set of rules for Chan (Chinese Zen) Monastic discipline, the ''Pure Rules of Huai Hai'', which are used today in many Zen monasteries. Baizhang is remembered for the aphorism: "A day without work is a day without food." His teachings and sayings have been translated by Thomas Cleary in ''Sayings and Doings of Pai-Chang'' (1978). Another book translated by John Blofeld in ' The Zen Teachings of Instaneous Awakening '' (1987) Buddhist Publishing Group, Totnes'', has been erroneously attributed by some to Baizhang Huaihai, but was in fact a work by his dharma brother, Ta-chu Hui-hai |