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	Zhaozhou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Zhaozhou Congshen (趙州從諗) (778?-897?), known as Chao-chou Ts'ung-shen in Wade-Giles and Jōshū Jūshin in Japanese, was one of the renowned Chan (Zen) masters of ancient China.
		He is said to have been born in 778 and to have died in 897, giving him an alleged life span of 119 years.
		Even during his lifetime his fame grew rapidly: five of the 48 koans in The Gateless Gate are attributed to Zhaozhou, as well as twelve of the 100 in the Blue Cliff Record.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zhaozhou (216 words)

	Zhaozhou (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Zhaozhou Congshen (趙州從諗) (778 ?- 897 ?), known as Chao-chou Ts'ung-shen in Wade-Giles and Jōshū Jūshin in Japanese, was one of the great Chan (Zen) masters of ancient China.
		Zhaozhou took his monastic name from the name of the small town near Beijing wherehe lived.
		Even during his lifetime his fame grew rapidly: five of the 48 koans in The Gateless Gate are attributed to Joshu, as well as twelve of the100 in the Blue Cliff Record.
	www.therfcc.org /zhaozhou-36327.html (207 words)

	Zhaozhou Bridge,zhaozhouqiao (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Zhaozhou Bridge with over 1400 years of history, is the earliest built, best—preserved arch stone bridge in the world.
		The Zhaozhou Bridge crosses the Jiaohe River in the Hebei Province of China and is the country's oldest standing bridge.
		The Zhaozhou Bridge was designed and constructed during the Sui dynasty by the master architect and stonemason, Li Chun.
	www.zhaozhouchina.com /xf/english/zhaozhoubridge.htm (292 words)

	Koan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		("Zhaozhou" is rendered as "Chao-chou" in Wade-Giles, and pronounced "Joshu" in Japanese.
		A monk asked Zhaozhou, "What is the meaning of Bodhidharma's coming from the west?" Zhaozhou said, "The cypress tree in the courtyard".
		It was customary for monks to maintain samadhi while eating this meal, and so Zhaozhou is not asking whether the monk has eaten: he asks instead whether the monk was able to remain in samadhi throughout the meal.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Koan (3481 words)

	Zhaozhou -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Zhaozhou took his monastic name from the name of the small town near (Capital of the People's Republic of China in the Hebei province in northeastern China; 2nd largest Chinese city) Beijing where he lived.
		He is said to have been born in (Click link for more info and facts about 778) 778 and to have died in (Click link for more info and facts about 897) 897, giving him an unlikely life span of 119 years.
		He was known for his (Rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint) asceticism but also his kindness: no sharp raps of the stick for his students, just simple actions and language without a single Buddhist cliche.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/z/zh/zhaozhou.htm (199 words)

	Talk:Koan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		When Zhaozhou said, The cypress tree in the yard, what did he see that made him declare, "This is the true meaning of your nature, of Chan Buddhism, of reality?" This koan is an excerpt from a longer exchange.
		Zhaozhou said, "I'm not using an object to guide you." The monk proceeded, "Very well, then, what's the meaning of Chan?" Zhaozhou said, "The cypress tree in the yard." It was the monk who was using an object; he couldn't free himself of the tree so that he might realize the tree.
		The traditional interpretation is that Zhaozhou was pointing to a living experience that supercedes comprehension and discourse.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Koan (4864 words)

	Association for Asia Research- Zhaozhou Bridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Zhaozhou Bridge is not only the most ancient stone arch bridge in China, but also the most ancient stone arch bridge with a traceable history in the world’s history of bridges.
		Zhaozhou Bridge has a very small and elegant arch for its bridge surface, which makes it easier for people and horse carriages to travel across the bridge.
		There was a stone tablet at the pier of Zhaozhou Bridge that says, “The stone bridge over the Jiao River at Zhao County was built by a craftsman of the Sui Dynasty, Li Chun.” This is the only historical record on Zhaozhou Bridge.
	www.asianresearch.org /articles/2162.html (517 words)

	San Francisco Zen Center: Dharma Talks by Norman Fischer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Zhaozhou ordained as a boy at the local temple and when he was about 20 years old, time to take full ordination, he heard about master Nanquan and went to visit him.
		If Zhaozhou had been there he would have put his sandals on his head and he would have walked up and down expressing the fact that the cat was already dead, even before Nanquan cut the cat in two.
		And Zhaozhou’s and Suzuki Roshi’s practice was not to think about this or marvel at it, but simply to be fully aware of it in each activity of life, whether they were speaking to a student or going to the toilet or eating a meal.
	www.sfzc.com /Pages/Dharma/Lectures/norman_fischer_index.html (9201 words)

	Mu_(negative) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		While typically used as a prefix to imply the absence of something (e.g., 無線 ''musen'' for "wireless"), it is more famously used as a response to certain koans and other questions in Zen Buddhism, intending to indicate that the question itself was wrong.
		The 'Mu' koan is summarized as follows: Zen master Zhaozhou (Chinese; in Japanese, Jōshū) was asked, "Does a dog have Buddha-nature?", he replied, "W�".
		Zhaozhou's answer has subsequently been used by generations of zen students as their initiation into the zen experience.
	goc.subdomain.de /Mu_%28Japanese_word%29 (387 words)

	Mu (Japanese word) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When the famous Zen master Zhaozhou (Japanese "Jōshū") was asked,"Does a dog have buddha nature ?", hereplied, " Wu," which was transliterated into Japanese as"mu".
		Zhaozhou sought to avoid this speculation by pointing out that it was a waste of time.
		As a result, various Discordians proposed "mu" as the correct answer, whichwas a Japanese word alleged by them to mean "Your question cannot be answered because it depends on incorrect assumptions".Hackers tend to be sensitive to logical inadequacies in language, and many have adopted this suggestion with enthusiasm.
	www.therfcc.org /mu-japanese-word--36341.html (287 words)

	DISCOURSE: Zhaozhou's Buddha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Zhaozhou picked up his whisk and said, "Do not abide in a place where there is a Buddha.
		Zhaozhou, seeing this monastic teetering on the edge, lost no time in precipitating the situation.
		That is the crisis that Zhaozhou so compassionately precipitated for this monastic who was merrily going around, doing what many practitioners in those days were doing — bouncing from place to place, visiting various teachers, never really probing the depths during any of his stops along the way.
	www.mro.org /zmm/dharmateachings/talks/teisho19.htm (2263 words)

	Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Ma Baosheng Dies as a Result of Torture at the Daqing Forced Labour Camp \| Clearharmony - ...
		He was held at the Zhaozhou County Detention Centre and the Daqing Forced Labour Camp, where he was terribly abused, both physically and mentally.
		He was sent back to the Zhaozhou County Detention Centre, where he held a hunger strike to protest the persecution.
		He and his wife were later sent to a brainwashing class held by the Zhaozhou County Culture and Education Division and the Judicial and Legislative Bureau.
	www.clearharmony.net /articles/200503/25508.html (890 words)

	Map of China Province - Region, Regional (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Zhaozhou Bridge, also known as Anji Bridge or Dashi (big stone) Bridge, is across the Jiaohe River in Zhaoxian County, which is 45 kilometers to the northeast of Shijiazhuang City.
		It was so named for Zhaoxian County used to be called Zhaozhou in the past.
		Having an important position in the bridge building history, Zhaozhou Bridge was designated by an American organization concerned in 1991 as one of the 12 world wonders of historical civil engineering.
	www.cntravel.biz /china_columns/provinces/hebei.shtml (500 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Ancient Design Pars with Modern Technology
		The Zhaozhou Bridge is the oldest stone arch bridge in China and the oldest of its kind in the world.
		Still quite amazing and an unsolved puzzle to modern experts for the ability to calculate with the precision in such a remote age, both ends of the bridge have each sunk no more than five centimeters over the past 1,400 years.
		In 1991, the American Society of Civil Engineers recognized the Zhaozhou Bridge as one of the 12 world wonders of historical civil engineering.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/4-10-7/23667.html (262 words)

	Mu (negative) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The 'Mu' koan is as follows: A monk asked Zen master Zhaozhou, a Chinese Zen Master (in Japanese, Jōshū): "Has a dog Buddha-nature or not?", Zhaozhou answered: "Wú".
		Since the expression 'wu' in Chinese is similar to the sound the Chinese use to imitate a dog's 'woof', an alternate 'explanation' of the utterance has been proposed suggesting that Zhaozhou was imitating a dog in reply, i.e., he answered the question by 'being' the dog.
		This is consistent with the general principle that Koan 'answers' usually involve adopting radical change of perspective, instead of a logical or linguistic 'answer'.
	stevehome.dynup.net /en/W%c3%ba.htm (423 words)

	Dharma Talk: Great! by Geoffrey Shugen Arnold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Zhaozhou was ordained as a teenager and then, as was the custom in China, he went on a pilgrimage to find a teacher to study with.
		Eventually Zhaozhou settled at the Kuan-Yin Temple in a northern city Zhaozhou, which is how he got his name.
		Zhaozhou was showing the monastic no hindrance, no fixed position, no fixed state, no definition.
	www.mro.org /zmm/dharmateachings/talks/shugen20.htm (3203 words)

	Bellingham Zen Practice Group - Another Step on the Journey
		The way these stories are written, there’s a kind of stylistic literary conceit that the new student just waltzes in has full access to the teacher, and usually the student tries to whip out a big zinger right away to test the teacher’s understanding.
		The first level of meaning here is that he had this idealized expectation of Master Zhaozhou himself and once he finally arrived the master didn’t measure up to his expectations.
		And so the monk is referring to the fame of the stone bridge of Zhaozhou as a metaphor for the fame of the Zen teacher Zhaozhou and saying he’s not impressed.
	www.bellinghamzen.org /dharmatalks/090403.html (2435 words)

	Moonlit Window
		A great master, Zhaozhou Zongshen, asked his teacher Nanquan Puyuan, "Where will the one who knows go?" Nanquan said, "To a donor’s house near the mountain and become a water buffalo." Zhaozhou thanked him for his teaching.
		Questioned by Zhaozhou, Nanquan didn’t hesitate in bringing it out, albeit still dripping with mud and water.
		Zhaozhou didn’t seem to mind the stench and thanked him for his teaching.
	www.buddhistinformation.com /zen/moonlit_window.htm (2009 words)

	Zhaozhou - TheBestLinks.com - Beijing, Japanese language, Koan, Wade-Giles, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Zhaozhou - TheBestLinks.com - Beijing, Japanese language, Koan, Wade-Giles,...
		Zhaozhou, Beijing, Japanese language, Koan, Wade-Giles, 778, 897, Monastery...
		Probably the best known of these is Zhaozhou's Dog, in which a monk asks the question: "Does a dog have Buddha nature or not?" Zhaozhou famously answered "wu" (無; or "mu", as transliterated into English from Japanese.)
	www.thebestlinks.com /Zhaozhou.html (271 words)

	QIANLONG.COM--Beijing Portal--Zhaozhou Bridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The well-known Zhaozhou Bridge, a large stone arch bridge on Xiao River in Zhaozhou, Hebei Province, is also known as Anji Bridge.
		Zhaozhou Bridge is 50.82 meters long and 9.6 meters wide, the span of the large stone arch in the middle measuring 37.37 meters.
		The Zhaozhou Stone Arch Bridge was technologically the most advanced in the world then.
	www.beijingportal.com.cn /7838/2003/08/12/207@1534831.htm (873 words)

	Mainland, Taiwan agree on charter flights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pu Zhaozhou (R), vice chairman of the board of directors of the mainland-based Straits Aviation Exchange Commission, chats with Mike Lo, chairman of Taipei Airlines Association, during a news conference after their meeting in Macao January 15, 2005.
		Pu Zhaozhou (R), vice chairman of the board of directors of the mainland-based Straits Aviation Exchange Commission, shakes hands with Mike Lo, chairman of Taipei Airlines Association, before their meeting with delegates from the two sides of the Taiwan Straits in Macao January 15, 2005.
		Pu Zhaozhou (R), vice chairman of the board of directors of the mainland-based Straits Aviation Exchange Commission, chats with Mike Lo, chairman of Taipei Airlines Association, and and Billy Chang (2nd-L), Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administration chief, before their meeting with delegates from the two sides of the Taiwan Straits in Macao January 15, 2005.
	www.chinaembassy.org.au /eng/xw/t179908.htm (435 words)

	Falun Dafa Clearwisdom.net
		Ma Baosheng in Zhaozhou County, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Dafa in 2000.
		He was illegally held at the Zhaozhou County Detention Center and the Daqing Forced Labor Camp, where he was terribly abused, both physically and mentally.
		He was sent back to the Zhaozhou County Detention Center, where he held a hunger strike to protest the persecution.
	www.clearwisdom.net /emh/articles/2005/3/20/58585.html (1078 words)

	Falun Info Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Wang Xiaodong is a Falun Dafa practitioner from Zhaozhou County, Daqing City and a surgeon at the County Chinese Medical Hospital.
		Dong Zhiping and Wang Xuejun from the Political and Security Division of the Zhaozhou Police Bureau extorted the exorbitant sum of 5,000 yuan from his family [500 yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker in China].
		In January 2001, the director of the Zhaozhou Public Health Division and Liu Yi from the "610 Office" [an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems] tried to return him to his local area.
	www.faluninfo.net /DisplayAnArticlePrint.asp?ID=8286 (1165 words)

	Chinastage -- Destination ...
		Thirty kilometres southwest of Shijiazhuang, Cangyan Shan Si (daily 8am-5pm), conceived in the Sui dynasty and rebuilt by the Qing, is an elegant monastic complex made beautiful by its dramatic location.
		In winter, the path up to the monastery is sometimes impassable due to snow.
		Zhaozhou Qiao, 40km southeast of Shijiazhuang, just outside the town of Zhaoxiang, is a simple, elegant bridge that will impress architects and engineers.
	dg.chinastage.com /index.jsp?cid=79801&action=viewLocation&locationId=22855 (362 words)

	Zendodigital (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cuando llamaron para saludarle, Zhaozhou preguntó al primero de ambos: “¿Ya has estado aquí alguna vez?” El primer novicio contestó que no había estado antes.
		Zhaozhou dijo entonces: “Comprendo, entonces bebe un poco de té antes de irte.” Le formuló la misma pregunta al segundo novicio.
		Zhaozhou añadió un toque de consideración a los cuencos de té que sirvió a los novicios en forma del deseo de que ambos conseguirían comprender las enseñanzas budistas y alcanzarían la iluminación lo antes posible.
	www.zendodigital.net /launidaddelzenyelte.htm (1054 words)

	Library of Dharma Talks by Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Sensei (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the Blue Cliff Record alone, there are four different cases where he takes up the introductory couplet of the verse and elaborates on it.
		In the available records of Zhaozhou, there are several other dialogues that comment on different passages of the verse.
		Zhaozhou’s teaching style was called “lips and mouth Zen.”; In the period of history when Zen was associated with the abrupt techniques of shouting or hitting, he taught with words and phrases, with turning, live words.
	www.zen-mtn.org /zmm/dharmateachings/dharmateach(shugen).html (3130 words)

	Library of Dharma Discourses by John Daido Loori, Roshi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Other significant Zen figures of that era were Guishan, Linji, Dongshan, Deshan, and Zhaozhou, a worthy company of sages.
		We should carefully examine Master Zhaozhou’s “eye that grasps the universe” and see that it is untainted, free of attachment, beyond being and non-being and not dependent upon intellectual comprehension.
		This koan about an old woman and Zhaozhou presents a wonderful opportunity to deepen our appreciation of how to work with traditional koans.
	www.zen-mtn.org /zmm/dharmateachings/dharmateach(daido).html (5136 words)

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