Yongming Yanshou
| Title | Chan master |
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| Born | 904 |
| Died | January 29, 976(976-01-29) (aged 71–72) |
| Nationality | Wuyue |
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| Religion | Buddhism |
| School | Chan/Pure Land/Tiantai |
| Senior posting | |
| Teacher | Tiantai Deshao |
| Predecessor | Tiantai Deshao |
| Part of a series on |
| Pure Land Buddhism |
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Buddhas and bodhisattvas |
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Scriptures Core Pure Land Sutras
Related Mahayana Texts and Aspirations Dhāraṇī and Mantras
Japanese Pure Land Writings |
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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).