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The 30 pages that link to Chan Buddhism, each with the reason it gives.

• Buddhism in ChinaBroader topic: Chan reshaped Chinese Buddhist practice around meditation and claims of direct transmission.

• Buddha-natureNarrower topic: Chan made Buddha-nature central to accounts of sudden awakening.

• Chinese BuddhismBroader topic: Chan developed distinctive meditation lineages and accounts of awakening in China.

• ZenNarrower topic: Chan is Zen’s Chinese source and remains a living tradition with its own history.

• Buddhist meditationRelated: Its development reshaped how meditation was taught and understood in East Asia.

• DhyanaRelated: The tradition developed from Indian Buddhist meditation while reshaping its practice and interpretation.

• ZazenNarrower topic: Zazen's historical lineage runs through Chan meditation.

• KoanNarrower topic: Many classic koan stories originated in Chinese Chan communities.

• PrajñāRelated: Chan places experiential realization, rather than conceptual learning alone, at the center of wisdom.

• VisuddhimaggaCompared with: Its varied meditation models provide a contrast to the manual’s graduated Theravada system.

• Wang WeiRelated: His poems’ stillness and attention to immediate experience are often read through Chan thought.

• BodhidharmaNarrower topic: Bodhidharma is traditionally named its first patriarch and transmitter in China.

• Caodong schoolNarrower topic: Caodong developed as one lineage within this broader tradition.

• Diamond SutraRelated: The Diamond Sutra became especially influential in Chan teachings and accounts of awakening.

• HuinengNarrower topic: Huineng became a defining patriarch of this tradition and its Southern School.

• Shaolin kung fuRelated: Shaolin Monastery became associated with Chan, shaping the tradition’s religious identity.

• Cheng-Zhu schoolCompared with: Cheng-Zhu thinkers developed their account of disciplined learning partly in debate with Buddhist ideas and practices.

• Seon BuddhismNarrower topic: Chan supplied the central teachings and lineage models adopted by Korean Seon.

• Mount SongRelated: Shaolin’s religious identity connects the mountain to the history of Chan Buddhism.

• Shaolin MonasteryNarrower topic: Chan practice is the monastery’s central religious tradition.

• Zhuang ZhouRelated: Chan thinkers drew on Zhuangzi’s language and stories while adapting them to Buddhist aims.

• JinulNarrower topic: Its teachings supplied the broader tradition that Jinul adapted in Korea.

• ShitaoRelated: Shitao’s monastic life and Buddhist thought informed his account of artistic creation.

• Dongshan LiangjieNarrower topic: Dongshan taught within this Chinese tradition, whose practices and texts shaped his community.

• East Asian YogācāraRelated: Chan developed alongside Yogācāra scholarship and inherited parts of its vocabulary of mind and practice.

• Lu ZhishenRelated: Lu Zhishen’s final spiritual resolution is framed through a Chan-inflected Buddhist world.

• Taoist philosophyRelated: Its development in China involved sustained exchange with Taoist language and ideas.

• TathātāBroader topic: Chan teachings often present suchness as directly encountered in ordinary experience.

• Yunmen WenyanNarrower topic: Yunmen’s teaching and school belong to this Chinese Buddhist tradition.

• ZhaoqingRelated: Zhaoqing’s religious heritage includes temples associated with Chan history.