Master Yan Shou

From Buddhist Encyclopedia

Master Yǒngmíng Yánshòu (永明延壽 Japanese; Yōmei Enju, 904-975 or 76) was the third patriarch in the line of Fa-yen(885-958), and according to Wikipedia, the 13 in a certain Pure Land line of patriarchs. He compiled the highly influential 100 fasc.,Record of the Mirror of Orthodoxy [py] Zōngjìng lù (宗鏡錄 Japanese; Sūgyō roku). Another work is this three fascicle, Ten Thousand Deeds Merging into One,

 (万善同歸集 Ch; Wànshàn tóngguī jí : Jp; Manzen dōki shū [T 2017.48.957b-993c.]). 

In this work he (unlike other Ch’an masters at that time), did not reject the view that the Pure Land is in the West outside one’s mind. He himself aspired to be born there and urged others to do so. He “fully explains” the theoretical basis for his view in the 万善同歸集. [source; Inagaki, Hisao, The Three Pure Land Sutras, page.131] He also advocated the joint practice of Ch’an meditation and nien-fo recitation.