Lushan Huiyuan

Huiyuan studied under Dao'an before establishing a monastic community at Donglin Monastery on Mount Lu. He corresponded with Kumārajīva on doctrinal questions. His community's practice of recollecting Amitābha led later Pure Land genealogies to count him as an early patriarch.

廬山慧遠 · 東晉 · 334-416

Also known as: 遠公

Part of: The Eight Schools of Chinese Buddhism, Pure Land Buddhism: Amitābha, the Three Sutras and the Practice of Recollection