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possible, his 'unhirmrid' mat men^.^
of the Zcn Budma rolp mhr tbn ar aaddiobn developad wiUlin Chineg Buddhism.
Indeed, he refers only W the ebviourly mythologid upceu of hirtorial figurn within
Zcn Suddhism, using them mare as parable than hinorid evidence. Fm example, in An
mmlunion rozcn BuaUmt, S d sldom makes refcrencc lo the bWrid Buddha as
the fda of Buddhism. Rams, Buddha is the mbjm of k a and pmbIcs. As m
example. survld writes
When +amwi was born, it is raid that he IiM me hand toward h hprm
and pinfed m the enh with h 6, wlaiming, 'Above the heavens ad Mau
the havens. I alone m the Honowed One!' Umm (Yun-men), founder of Be
Um- Sdaol of Zcn, m-o cm this by mying, 'If 1 had been with him at the
moment of his u m g Us, I wwld surely have smk him dead with blow
and thrown the mrpp into the maw of r hungry dog.' W t unbelievers would
ever think of making rxh nmg mmk over a rpirilud leader? Yef one of h
Zen mtur fouowing Ummon says: 'Indeed, U s is the way Ummon desks to
w e the world, lacnficing everything he has, body and mind! How gratefvl he
'him Tcim Swuld, 'Zsl: A Reply m Hu Shih.' Philosophy Fa51 and Wm
3, p. 26. 1- D. SeUm, in 'A Belared RespoM lo HU Shih and D. T. S&
(Philm~phy Em and Wm 45, no. I (Jan. 1995):97-104). argues that SuruY user the
tam *history" m m m 'living history' while Hu uwr it W mean 'hidiography.'