Yunmen Mountain Gazette (雲門山志)

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Republic of China · by 岑學呂編

82,605 · about 275 min

The Gazetteer of Yunmen Mountain, compiled by the Republican-era scholar Cen Xuelü, is a Buddhist text documenting the history and culture of Yunmen Temple in Ruyuan, Guangdong. Completed during the Republican period, this work systematically organizes the geographical setting of Yunmen Mountain, the historical evolution of the temple, the deeds of eminent monks, and literary records from successive dynasties, with particularly detailed accounts of the transmission and development of the Yunmen school. As a gazetteer of the ancestral temple of the Yunmen school—one of the five houses of Chan Buddhism—it serves not only as an essential document for the study of Chinese Buddhist history and local culture but also holds irreplaceable academic value for understanding Chan thought and monastic institutions, occupying a unique position among Buddhist texts.