| born: c. 12th century died: place: China |
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| stories: Osho The Search: Talks on the Ten Bulls of Zen (entire book uses the Ten Bulls) |
Jap. Kakuan ______
Guo'an Shiyuan
| oshobob The Living Workshop |
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| Basically, there were eight pictures, not ten; and they were not Buddhist, they were Taoist. Their beginning is lost. Nobody knows how they started, who painted the first bulls. But in the twelfth century a Chinese Zen master, Kakuan, repainted them; and not only that, he added two more pictures, and eight became ten. The Taoist pictures were ending on the eighth; the eighth is emptiness, nothingness. But Kakuan added two new pictures. That is the very contribution of Zen to religious consciousness... --Osho The Search, ch. 1 |