What kind of person is a tramp?

Tramps are all wandering doctors, and there are also chivalrous beggars.

The origin of "crossing the rivers and lakes"

"Jiang" refers to Jiangxi and "Lake" refers to Hunan. According to historical records, during the Tang and Song Dynasties, Zen became more and more popular, especially in Jiangxi and Hunan, where Zen monks had the most virtues and the highest cultivation.

Therefore, under the door of Zen, scholars who go to Jiangxi or Hunan visit the eminent monk Dade and Zen master there, hoping to get the advice of Zen master and get the gist of Zen.

For this reason, in that period, in Jiangxi and Hunan, the grand occasion of "thousands of monks coming to the DPRK" was displayed! Jiangxi and Hunan became the sacred places that led the Zen culture in China at that time, and Jiangxi and Hunan also became the Buddhist cultural centers of the society at that time. So people call it "wandering the rivers and lakes" to find a Zen master in Jiangxi or Hunan.

Yangshan Huiji (840~9 16, 804~890) was a monk in the late Tang and Five Dynasties. He and Weishan Lingshou are the founders of Suiyang School. Because Master Huiji often lives in Yangshan, he is called Master Huiji of Yangshan, or Master Yangshan.

Yangshan Huiji, born in Xuchang, Shaozhou (Qujiang, Guangdong), has a common surname of Ye. When I was young, I was interested in becoming a monk, but my parents didn't allow it. Later, he broke his finger and vowed to seek dharma, so he became a monk according to the master of Nanhua Temple. Travel around the world without anklets. When you first visit the source, you will understand the mystery; Later, he joined Weishan Lingshou, where he studied for fifteen years and inherited the law.