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慧覽

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Basic Meaning: Huilan

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  • Huilan (d. ca. 457–464). A monk known for his practice of *dhyāna 禪. He was originally from Jiuquan 酒泉 (in modern Gansu 甘肅). He traveled to Kashmir 罽賓, where he was a disciple of a monk named *Dharma or *Dharmadatta (達摩, var. 達摩達), whom Lin Li-kuoang has identified with Dharma[trāta], a contemporary of Buddhasena (who was the master of Buddhabhadra and, according to Demiéville, the actual author of the Damoduoluo chan jing 達摩多羅禪經 T 618, which Buddhabhadra translated, despite the fact that the present title of T 618 ascribes the original work to *Dharmatrāta). *Dharma[trāta] is said to have entered into a samādhi that allowed him to travel to Tuṣita Heaven 兜率天, where he received ordination from Maitreya 彌勒; he is supposed to have transmitted this ordination method to Huilan. (A different version of these events is recounted in the Mingseng zhuan 名僧傳; see Demiéville 379 n. 2.) Huilan then taught the same meditation-ordination method to monks in Khotan on his way back to China. Upon his return to China, he taught in Shu 屬 (modern Sichuan 四川), and later in Jiankang 建康 (modern Nanjing 南京). There is a biography for Huilan in the Gaoseng zhuan 高僧傳, T 2059.50.399a10–22; see also Demiéville (1954): 378–379.

    Sources:

    Demiéville, Paul. 1954. “La Yogâcārabhūmi de Saṅgharakṣa.” Bulletin de l' École Française d' Extrême-Orient X L N (2): 339–436.

    [Michael Radich; source(s): Gaoseng zhuan, Demiéville]
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    Entry created: 2014-12-18

    Updated: 2015-01-07