Yongming Yanshou

Yongming Yanshou 永明延壽
Title	Chán master
Personal life
Born	904 Hangzhou or Yuhang
Died	January 29, 976(976-01-29) (aged 71–72) Hangzhou
Nationality	Wuyue
Religious life
Religion	Buddhism
School	Chán
Senior posting
Teacher	Tiantai Deshao
Predecessor	Tiantai Deshao

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Yongming Yanshou (Chinese: 永明延壽; pinyin: Yǒngmíng Yánshòu; Wade–Giles: Yung-ming Yen-shou; Japanese: 永明延寿 or Yōmyō Enju; Korean: Yŏngmyŏng Yŏnsu; Vietnamese: Vĩnh Minh Diên Thọ) (904–976) was a prominent Buddhist monk during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period and early Song Dynasty in China. He promoted a non-sectarian and inclusive Mahayana Buddhism, drawing on Chan, Huayan, Tiantai and Pure Land. Yanshou promoted a holistic and syncretic teaching which saw the sudden enlightenment focused practice of Chan as fully compatible with the myriad skillful means of Chinese Buddhism (such as rituals, bodhisattva precepts, worship, nianfo and cultivation of good deeds).^[1]