The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2435 page)

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Tao-chia
(philosophical Taoism, one of the two main streams of Taoism, along with taochiao):
see
TAOISM
.
Tao-chiao
(religious Taoism, one of the two main streams of Taoism, with tao-chia):
see
TAOISM
.
Tao-ch’o
(Buddhist patriarch):
see
MAPP
.
Tao-hsin
(Jap., D
shin
;
580–651)
. Fourth patriarch in the Ch’an/Zen succession through
Bodhidharma
: he was dharma-successor (
hassu
) of
Seng-ts’an
and master of Hung-jen. He instructed students in
La
k
vat
ra S
tra
, with emphasis on
zazen
, and, settling on Mount Shuang-feng, gathered many students who formed a settled monastic community, a founding model for later Zen monasteries. His teaching includes the oldest text advocating
zazengi
, ‘seated meditation’.

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