Dushun (Chinese:杜順;pinyin:Dùshùn;Wade–Giles:Tu-shun) (557–640) was the First Patriarch of theHuayan School ofChinese Buddhism, which has the IndianAvatamsaka Sutra as its central scripture.
Dushun was born in present-dayShaanxi province. He ordained at the age of seventeen and became a student of a monk named Weichen, from whom he learned meditation at Yinsheng temple. Dushun later retired to Zhixiang temple, a monastery in theZhongnan mountains in the south of Shaanxi. There, Dushun began an in-depth study of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra. The second patriarch,Zhiyan (602-668 CE), studied under Dushun at Zhixiang temple and became recognized as his formal successor.[1]
Dushun was also a devotee ofAmitabha andManjusri, and promoted their worship among the laity.[1]
Around fourteen works have been ascribed to Dushun throughout history; however, only two works can be definitively attributed to him. The first isThe Ten Mysterious Gates of the Unitary Vehicle of the Huayan (zh:Huayan yisheng shixuan men). This text was composed byZhiyan (602-668 CE), the second patriarch, but is supposedly a record of the oral teachings of Dushun.[1]
The second isDiscernments of the Dharmadhātu of the Huayan (zh:Huayan fajie guanmen), which does not survive as a stand-alone text but can be found in its entirety in several later commentaries.[1] This text has been translated byThomas Cleary embedded with the commentary by Chengguan in hisEntry Into the Inconceivable.
One highly influential text attributed to Dushun isCessation and Contemplation in the Five Teachings of the Huayan (zh:Huayan wujiao zhiguan); however, the authorship of this text is disputed. This has been translated by Cleary in hisEntry Into the Inconceivable.
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