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Dongshan Shouchu
Title	Ch'an-shih
Personal life
Born	? China
Died	900
Religious life
Religion	Buddhism
School	Ch'an
Senior posting
Predecessor	Yunmen Wenyan

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Dongshan Shouchu (Chinese: 洞山守初; Wade–Giles: Tung-shan Shou-ch'u; Japanese: Tozan Shusho) (died 900) was a Chinese Zen teacher and an heir to Yunmen Wenyan. Dongshan is the subject of Case 18 "Three Pounds of Flax" in The Gateless Barrier, a collection of koans authored by the Chan master Wumen Huikai in 1228.

References

Wang, Youru (27 June 2017). Historical Dictionary of Chan Buddhism. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-5381-0552-8.
Heine, Steven (30 September 2014). Zen Koans. University of Hawaii Press. p. 121. ISBN 978-0-8248-4790-6.

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Modern Lingji	Xuyun Taixu Nan Huai-Chin Yuanying Benhuan Sheng-yen Hsing Yun Cheng Yen Wei Chueh Yicheng Shi Yinshun
Modern Caodong	Xuyun Dongchu Sheng-yen
Modern Guiyang	Xuyun Hsuan Hua Yicheng Chuanyin
Traditional Zen	Dōgen Hakuin Ekaku
Modern Rinzai	Imakita Kosen Soyen Shaku Sokei-an D. T. Suzuki Soen Nakagawa Keido Fukushima
Modern Sōtō	Kōdō Sawaki Shunryū Suzuki
Sanbo Kyodan	Hakuun Yasutani Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle Robert Aitken Philip Kapleau
White Plum Asanga	Taizan Maezumi Dennis Merzel
German Zen	Karlfried Graf Dürckheim Muhō Noelke
Korean Seon	Jinul Seungsahn Seongcheol Daewon
Vietnamese Thiền	Pháp Hiền Vạn Hạnh Trần Nhân Tông Pháp Loa Thích Nhất Hạnh Thích Thanh Từ

Chinese Chán

Historical sects	Five Houses of Chán East Mountain Teaching Hongzhou school Fayan school Yunmen school
Extant sects	Linji school Caodong school Guiyang school
Contemperory Organizations	Buddha's Light International Association Four Heavenly Kings (Taiwan) Dharma Drum Mountain Fo Guang Shan Tzu Chi Foundation Chung Tai Shan Dharma Realm Buddhist Association City of Ten Thousand Buddhas
Academic organizations	Dharma Realm Buddhist University

Japanese Zen

Historical sects	Nōnin Fuke-shū Niō Zen
Extant sects	Sōtō Rinzai Ōbaku
Lay organizations	Sanbo Kyodan Ningen Zen Kyodan
Academic organizations	Kyoto School

Korean Seon

Historical sects	Nine mountain schools
Contemporary sects	Taego Order Jogye Order

Vietnamese Thiền

Extant sects	Trúc Lâm Wu Yantong
Temple	Vạn Hạnh Monastery Trúc Lâm Monastery of Da Lat

USA Zen

Shunryū Suzuki lineage	Shunryū Suzuki Zentatsu Richard Baker Mel Weitsman San Francisco Zen Center Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
Kōdō Sawaki lineage	Kōdō Sawaki Antai-ji Kōshō Uchiyama Shōhaku Okumura
Yasutani lineage	Hakuun Yasutani Sanbo Kyodan Robert Baker Aitken John Tarrant Taizan Maezumi Zen Center of Los Angeles White Plum Asanga Bernie Glassman John Daido Loori Geoffrey Shugen Arnold Zen Peacemakers Joko Beck Dennis Merzel Kanzeon Zen Center
Philip Kapleau lineage	Philip Kapleau Rochester Zen Center Toni Packer
Other Sōtō lineages	Sōyū Matsuoka Dainin Katagiri Kōbun Chino Otogawa Gyokuko Carlson Gudō Wafu Nishijima Brad Warner
Soen Nakagawa lineage	Soen Nakagawa Eido Tai Shimano Zen Studies Society Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-ji
Other Rinzai or Linji lineages	Kyozan Joshu Sasaki Omori Sogen Shodo Harada Keido Fukushima
Pan-lineage	Soto Zen Buddhist Association

European Zen

Sanbo Kyodan	Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle
Kōdō Sawaki lineage	Taisen Deshimaru
Other Sōtō lineages	Houn Jiyu-Kennett Throssel Hole Buddhist Abbey Norwich Zen Buddhist Priory
Zendo Kyodan	Shinzan Miyamae Roshi
Other Rinzai or Linji lineages	Kaishin Inshu

Hierarchy and titles

Novice	Unsui Buddhist initiation ritual
Attendants	Jikijitsu Jisha
Priest	Oshō
Teacher	Sensei Rōshi Zen master
Institutional organisation	Zen ranks and hierarchy Dharma transmission Zen lineage charts

Temples

Main Sōtō Temples	Eihei-ji Sōji-ji Antai-ji
Main Rinzai Temples	Myōshin-ji Daitoku-ji Tōfuku-ji

Zen literature

Classic	Long Scroll of the Treatise on the Two Entrances and Four Practices Platform Sutra Xinxin Ming Sandokai Denkoroku The Gateless Barrier Shōbōgenzō
Modern	Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind The Way of Zen Three Pillars of Zen
Critical	Zen at War

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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