About: Danxia Zichun

Danxia Zichun (1064–1117) (Chinese: 丹霞子淳; Wade–Giles: Tan-hsia Tzu-ch'un; Hànyǔ pīnyīn Dānxiá Zichún; Japanese: Tanka Shijun) was a Zen Buddhist monk during the Song Dynasty. He was born in a city called Zitong, which is in modern Sichuan Province. He is buried in south of Mt Hong near the modern city of Wuhan. While not a particularly notable monk himself, his three students, Hongzhi Zhengjue, Zhenxie Qingliao, , were each especially famous during their lifetimes. He is the only student of Furong Daokai that has a collection of recorded sayings that has survived to the present. In these sayings, he advocated a silent illumination approach to seated meditation. For example, he is recorded as saying, "You must completely let go of all worldly concerns and sit totally still in the dry wood