Jizang is known as Jiaxiang or Master Jiaxiang because he acquired fame at the Jiaxiang Temple.
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11 Facts About Jizang
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Jizang was quite precocious in spiritual matters, and became a monk at age seven.
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Jizang became the head monk at Xinghuang Temple upon Falang's death in 581.
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In 597, Yang Kuang, later Emperor Yang, the second son of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, ordered four new temples in the capital Chang'an, and invited Jizang to be in charge of one of them, called Huiri Temple.
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Zhiyi, a respected figure of the Tiantai school, had accepted to become monk at another one of the new temples, and Jizang sought to visit him, but unfortunately he died before Jizang was able to meet him.
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Jizang was a prodigious writer, producing close to 50 books in his lifetime.
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Jizang specialized in commentaries on the three treatises as well as texts from other Buddhist traditions, such as the Lotus and Nirvana sutras.
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Jizang's students included Hyegwan, Korean by nationality, who brought the Three Treatise School to Japan.
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In commenting on Buddhist treatises, Jizang developed a general methodology of poxie xianzheng, by-passing the pitfalls of asserting the truth or falsehood of certain propositions in a final or rigid sense, but using them if they pragmatically lead to the ability to overcome the commitment to dichotomy.
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Jizang noted that the tendency of many Buddhists to become committed to becoming unattached is itself a commitment that should be avoided.
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