Liangshan Yuanguan

Liangshan Yuanguan
粱山緣觀
Liangshan Yuanguan; 粱山緣觀
Title	Chán master
Personal
Born	China
Religion	Buddhism
School	Chán
Senior posting
Teacher	Tongan Guanzhi
Predecessor	Tongan Guanzhi
Successor	Dayang Jingxuan
	Students Dayang Jingxuan;

Liangshan Yuanguan (simplified Chinese: 梁山缘观; traditional Chinese: 粱山緣觀; Wade–Giles: Liang-shan Yüan-kuan; Japanese: Ryōzan Enkan) was a Zen Buddhist monk during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. His first appearance in the historical record is in the Transmission of the Lamp, which was compiled around 1004. No precise dates are available for when he lived, and information about his life is scant.^[1]

References

^ Schlütter, Morten (2010), How Zen Became Zen: The Dispute Over Enlightenment and the Formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-Dynasty China, University of Hawaii Press, p. 93, ISBN 978-0-8248-3508-8

Buddhist titles
Preceded by Tongan Guanzhi	Sōtō Zen patriarch	Succeeded by Dayang Jingxuan

[sch-1] Schlütter, Morten (2010), How Zen Became Zen: The Dispute Over Enlightenment and the Formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-Dynasty China, University of Hawaii Press, p. 93, ISBN 978-0-8248-3508-8