1. Jianzhi Sengcan is known as the Third Chinese Patriarch of Chan after Bodhidharma and thirtieth Patriarch after Siddhartha Gautama Buddha.
10 Facts About Sengcan
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Sengcan is considered to be the Dharma successor of the second Chinese Patriarch, Dazu Huike.
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Sengcan is best known as the putative author of the famous Chan poem, Xinxin Ming, the title of which means "".
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The year and place of Sengcan's birth are unknown, as is his family name.
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The Transmission of the Lamp entry on Sengcan begins with a koan-like encounter with Huike:.
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Sengcan met Daoxin, a novice monk of just fourteen, in 592.
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Subsequently, Sengcan spent two years at Mount Luofu before returning to Wangong Mountain.
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Sengcan died sitting under a tree before a Dharma assembly in 606.
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Sengcan received the honorary title from the Tang dynasty emperor Xuan Zong.
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The earliest recorded note naming Sengcan is in Further Biographies of Eminent Monks by Daoxuan where Sengcan is named, immediately after Huike's name, as one of seven disciples of Huike in a biographical entry of the Lankavatara sutra master, Fa-ch'ung.