Second Patriarch of Chan
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The Second Patriarch of Chan is the early Chinese Buddhist master who succeeded Bodhidharma and helped establish the foundational lineage and teachings of Chan (Zen) Buddhism.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Second Patriarch of Chan canonical | 1 |
| Second Patriarch of Zen | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11672705 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Second Patriarch of Chan Context triple: [Huike, positionHeld, Second Patriarch of Chan]
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A.
Fourth Patriarch
The Fourth Patriarch is the traditional title given to Daoxin, an early and influential Chan (Zen) Buddhist master in China who helped shape the development of the school.
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B.
Huineng
Huineng was the influential Sixth Patriarch of Chan (Zen) Buddhism in China, renowned for his teachings on sudden enlightenment and non-dual awareness.
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Shenxiu
Shenxiu was a prominent early Chan (Zen) Buddhist monk of the 7th century, known as a leading figure of the so-called Northern School and a key rival to Huineng in later Chan tradition.
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D.
Dahui Zonggao
Dahui Zonggao was a prominent 12th-century Chinese Chan (Zen) master of the Linji school, best known for popularizing the practice of kanhua meditation focused on critical phrases (hua tou) from koans.
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Zentsuji
Zentsuji is a historic city in Japan known as the birthplace of the Buddhist monk Kūkai and home to the famous Zentsū-ji Temple, one of the 88 temples on the Shikoku Pilgrimage.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Second Patriarch of Chan Target entity description: The Second Patriarch of Chan is the early Chinese Buddhist master who succeeded Bodhidharma and helped establish the foundational lineage and teachings of Chan (Zen) Buddhism.
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A.
Fourth Patriarch
The Fourth Patriarch is the traditional title given to Daoxin, an early and influential Chan (Zen) Buddhist master in China who helped shape the development of the school.
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B.
Huineng
Huineng was the influential Sixth Patriarch of Chan (Zen) Buddhism in China, renowned for his teachings on sudden enlightenment and non-dual awareness.
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C.
Shenxiu
Shenxiu was a prominent early Chan (Zen) Buddhist monk of the 7th century, known as a leading figure of the so-called Northern School and a key rival to Huineng in later Chan tradition.
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D.
Dahui Zonggao
Dahui Zonggao was a prominent 12th-century Chinese Chan (Zen) master of the Linji school, best known for popularizing the practice of kanhua meditation focused on critical phrases (hua tou) from koans.
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E.
Zentsuji
Zentsuji is a historic city in Japan known as the birthplace of the Buddhist monk Kūkai and home to the famous Zentsū-ji Temple, one of the 88 temples on the Shikoku Pilgrimage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist monk
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Chan patriarch ⓘ historical figure ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Northern Wei dynasty
NERFINISHED
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Shaolin Monastery NERFINISHED ⓘ early Chinese Chan community ⓘ |
| coreTeaching |
direct transmission of mind-to-mind enlightenment
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emphasis on meditation over scripture ⓘ sudden awakening ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicity | partly legendary in traditional accounts ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being recognized as Bodhidharma’s Dharma heir
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receiving Bodhidharma’s robe and bowl in Chan legend ⓘ |
| languageContext | Classical Chinese hagiographies ⓘ |
| name | Huike NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionInLineage | second patriarch of Chan ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| role |
foundational figure in Chan lineage
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transmitter of Bodhidharma’s teachings ⓘ |
| sourceTradition |
Chan transmission records
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Lamp histories of Chan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sphereOfInfluence |
development of early Chan doctrine
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formation of Chan patriarchal lineage narratives ⓘ |
| successor | Sengcan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successorOf | Bodhidharma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teacher | Bodhidharma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title |
Second Patriarch of Chinese Chan
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Second Patriarch of Zen (in Japanese tradition) ⓘ |
| tradition |
Chan Buddhism
NERFINISHED
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Zen Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| transliteration | 慧可 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Chinese Buddhism
NERFINISHED
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Japanese Zen ⓘ Korean Seon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Second Patriarch of Chan Description of subject: The Second Patriarch of Chan is the early Chinese Buddhist master who succeeded Bodhidharma and helped establish the foundational lineage and teachings of Chan (Zen) Buddhism.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Second Patriarch of Zen