This may be the famous
    "stonehead" site of Zen master
    Shitou Xiqian (Sekito, J.), or it
    may be his predecessor, a
    Buddhist master named Haiyin.  


    Shitou's roushen, disappeared
    from Nantai Temple at some
    time in history.  The Japanese
    say they have Shitou's real-body
    relics in a major Soto temple in
    Tokyo, but some scholars are
    questioning the truth of that.
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