Tongan Daopi 同安道丕
Title	Chán master
Personal life
Born	China
Religious life
Religion	Buddhism
School	Chán
Senior posting
Teacher	Yunju Daoying
Predecessor	Yunju Daoying
Successor	Tongan Guanzhi (?)
Students Tongan Guanzhi (?)

Tongan Daopi (Chinese:同安道丕;Japanese:Doan Dōhi) was aChan/ZenBuddhist monk during the end of theTang dynasty and the beginning of theFive Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Very little is known about him. Traditional biographies record that he was the abbot of Tongan Monastery on Mount Fengchi near modernNanchang.^[1] The earliest source of information on monks of this era is theZutang ji (Patriarch's Hall Record), which was completed in 952, but it fails to mention Tongan Daopi as a disciple of his supposed teacherYunju Daoying. TheZutang ji does, however, record someone with the name Tongan asking a question to Yunju Daoying. The scholar Ui Hakuju has written this could likely refer to Tongan Daopi. He is first explicitly mentioned in theTransmission of the Lamp, which was compiled around 1004. However, in that work, it does not mention Tongan Daopi as having any disciples. The commonly accepted version of his lineage holds thatTongan Guanzhi is Tongan Daopi's successor. However, this comes from Huihong'sSengbao zhuan, which was completed in 1119, much longer after Tongan's death than the other works. TheTransmission of the Lamp instead claims that Tongan Guanzhi is the disciple of aTongan Wei, in turn a student ofJufeng Puman, with Jufeng being an apparently obscure student of the famousDongshan Liangjie. Both Tongan Wei and Jufeng Puman are listed for the first time in theTransmission of the Lamp, and neither with much information. However,Dayang Jingxuan, who in Huihong's version of the lineage is a descendant of Tonagan Daopi, is recorded in theTransmission of the Lamp as being descended through Jufeng Puman and Tongan Wei. Dayang was close with Wang Shu, one of the compilers ofTransmission of the Lamp, suggesting that it is unlikely that an error would have been made therein about his lineage. This suggests that Tongan Guanzhi is much more likely to have been a student of Tongan Wei and not Tongan Daopi as commonly accepted.^[2]

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