Feng-kan, or Big Stick (his name in translation) was one of the ‘Tientai trio’, including Hanshan (Cold Mountain) and Shih-te (Pickup), who lived at Kuoching Buddhist temple in the early 9th c. CE. Big Stick was said to have arrived at the temple riding a tiger, and had an imposing appearance, standing six feet tall and with long hair, rather than the shaved head of a monk.
Whenever Cold Mountains stops to visit
or Pickup pays his usual call
we talk about the mind the moon
or wide open space
reality has no limit
so anything real includes it all
Translation Red Pine
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