Tao Te Ching
The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
Upagupta ရှင်ဥပဂုတ္တ
(Shin Upagutta)
c. 3rd century BCE
4th Zen Patriarch, disciple of the Buddha’s close attendant Ananda’s regent, the spiritual teacher of Ashoka who spread Buddhism from a very small community into the greater world; Upagupta is still remembered and venerated in many South East Asian countries, Bangladesh, and with a special, high status in Burma that celebrates a major festival in his honor each year. Immortalized in a poem by Rabindranath Tagore, he refuses the advances of his city’s most famous enchantress when she’s young and beautiful only to nurse and stay with her when she’s suffering from a disfiguring disease.
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Zen
Eras
Chinese
Eastern Zhou 東周 (770 – 256 BCE)Warring States period 春秋时代 (476 – 221 BCE)
Qin Dynasty 秦朝 (221 – 206 BCE)
Western Han (206 BCE – 9 CE)
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