Raw data
"Nan-yüeh [南岳] (515–577) (PY Nanyue; Jpn Nangaku) Also known as Hui-ssu. T'ient'ai's teacher and the third patriarch of the T'ient'ai school in China, in the tradition that counts Nagarjuna as the school's founder. A native of Nan-yü-chou in north China, he entered the priesthood in 529 and concentrated on the study of the Lotus Sutra. Later he learned from Hui-wen the meditation for observing the mind and mastered the Lotus meditation, a meditation based on the Lotus Sutra. In 548 a malicious priest who had opposed Nan-yüeh in debate poisoned him, and he nearly died. In 553 another rival priest poisoned him. He survived this attempt, too, and in the next year moved to K'ai-yüeh-ssu [= Kaiyue] temple in Kuang-chou [Guangzhou (Canton)] where he lectured on the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra. In 555 he moved to Mount Ta-su in Kuang-chou. There he devoted himself to lecturing on the Wisdom and the Lotus sutras and engaged in the practice of the Lotus Sutra and the training of his disciples; one of those disciples was T'ient'ai. In 568 he moved to Nan-yüeh [= Nanyue], the mountain after which he gained the name the Great Teacher Nan-yüeh, and received the title great meditation master from the emperor.”
(The Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism) http://www.sgilibrary.org/search_dict.php?id=1498
Input by: tmciolek Jul 23 2013
Final data (and their sources)
Last updated: 04 Aug 2013
Lat/Long coordinates' accuracy:
The monastery in question is assumed to be situated actually no farther than 200 m from the point defined by the coordinates below.
General location of the Nanyue monastery, CN.
Lat 27.24946 Long 112.72851
Mapping & images: Falling Rain Genomics (http://www.fallingrain.com), 2013.
Google Map link:
Final data - explanatory notes
1. Monastery's name
- Nanyue monastery
2. Monastery's modern country & province
- China:Hunan Sheng
3. Monastery's alternative/historical names
- Nan-yüeh monastery - (The Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism) http://www.sgilibrary.org/search_dict.php?id=1498
4. Monastery's lat/long coordinates
- Approx. Lat 27.24946 Long 112.72851 - based on visual identification of the Nanyyue monastery site in maps/satellite imagery, maps.google.com - tmciolek, 23 Jul 2013.
5. Other known nearby Buddhist monasteries
- [missing data]
6. Modern name of the known nearest city, town, or village
7. The settlement's alternative/historical names
- Nan-yueh - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/11/Nanyue.html
- Nanyuequ - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/11/Nanyue.html
- Nan-yueh-ssu - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/11/Nanyue.html
- Nan-yueh-chen - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/11/Nanyue.html
- Nan-yüeh - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/11/Nanyue.html
- Nan-yüeh-shih - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/11/Nanyue.html
- Nan-yüeh-ssu - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/11/Nanyue.html
- Nan-yüeh-chen - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/11/Nanyue.html
- 南岳 - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/11/Nanyue.html
- Nanyo - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/11/Nanyue.html
- Nan-yueh-shih - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/11/Nanyue.html
8. The settlement's coordinates
- Approx., Lat 27.2266 Long 112.7203 - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/11/Nanyue.html
9. Monastery's major Buddhist tradition
- Mayahana
10. Monastery's Buddhist sub-tradition
- Ch'an/Zen
11. Date-early
- [missing data]
12. Date-intermediate
- The monastery was already active in 568 - (The Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism) http://www.sgilibrary.org/search_dict.php?id=1498
MBM chrono-tag 0533-66p 0567-99c - tmciolek 04 Aug 2013
0533-66p 0567-99c 0633-66c 0667-99c 0700-32c 0733-66c 0767-99c 0800-32c 0833-66c 0867-99c 0900-32c 0933-66c 0967-99c 1000-32c 1033-66c 1067-99c 1100-32c 1133-66c 1167-99c 1200=> dated-el
13. Date-late
- The monastery appears to be in active existence in the early 21st c. - maps/satellite imagery, maps.google.com - tmciolek, 23 Jul 2013.
MBM chrono-tag 1200=> - tmciolek 04 Aug 2013
14. Details of contacts with other monasteries
- Contacts with Ta-su monastery via the high ranking monk ven-nanyue
- Contacts with Kaiyue monastery via the high ranking monk ven-nanyue
15. Type of evidence regarding the monastery
- [missing data]
16. Additional notes
- [missing data] (incl. details of the size of the monastic population)
17. Corrections & addenda to this page were kindly provided by
- [missing data]
18. Known monks and nuns associated with this monastery
- ven.nanyue [ven-nanyue] - (The Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism) http://www.sgilibrary.org/search_dict.php?id=1498
- NNNN [ven-nnnn] - source
- NNNN [ven-nnnn] - source
- NNNN [ven-nnnn] - source
19. Available Printed Literature
- [bibliographical details of the Book/Article 1]
- [bibliographical details of the Book/Article 2]
- [bibliographical details of the Book/Article 3]
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