Sichuan

  • Encounter in Fengdu

    There was a cave outside the county town of Fengdu in Sichuan Province. It was unfathomable. It was said that this was the entrance to Hades of the King of Hell.

  • Neither One Nor Three

    Chan Master Wuzhu (714–774 CE), founder of the Baotang School — one of Tang Dynasty’s ten great Chan lineages — studied under Master Wuxiang at Chengdu’s Jingzhong Temple and became his Dharma heir. Master Wuzhu taught “no-thought” Zen, guiding seekers beyond dogma. His school’s essence lay in “Any arising thought is delusion; cease the…

  • The Kingdom of Women in History and Journey to the West

    In the novel Journey to the West, the ‌Women’s Kingdom‌ is one of the nations that the monk Tang Sanzang and his disciples pass through during their quest for Buddhist scriptures.