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By the last quarter of the eighth century, there began a great stampede in the Ch’an schools—a stampede of almost every teacher or school of Ch’an to join the school of Hui-nêng and Shên-hui. It was not easy, however, to claim a tie to Shên-hui, who had died only too recently. But Hui-nêng had died early in the eighth century, and his disciples were mostly unknown ascetics who lived and died in their hilly retreats. One could easily claim to have paid a visit to some of them. So, in the last decades of the century, some of those unknown names were remembered or discovered. 去书内
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    By the last quarter of the eighth century, there began a great stampede in the Ch’an schools—a stampede of almost every teacher or school of Ch’an to join the school of Hui-nêng and Shên-hui. It was not easy, however, to claim a tie to Shên-hui, who had died only too recently. But Hui-nêng had died early in the eighth century, and his disciples were mostly unknown ascetics who lived and died in their hilly retreats. One could easily claim to have paid a visit to some of them. So, in the last decades of the century, some of those unknown names were remembered or discovered.

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