This article is concerning the new raised Buddhism branch: San-fong School(三峰宗)during the late Ming to early Ch'ing dynasty. It focuses mainly on the life of Han-yueh Fa-tzang(漢月法藏, 1573 ~ 1635), who is the founder of the San-fong School in late Ming Dynasty. I'll trace his life autobiography with three steps:(1)The process of self-educated(自學)since he was young. (2)The disagreement with his teacher, Mi-yun Yuen-wu(密雲圓悟), an important master of Lin-ji School(臨濟宗).(3)Influenced by Lin-ji School, he formed San-fong School. The interrelationship between Han-yueh and the surroundings played an important role in the process of self-education. Han-yueh had mastered in both Confucianism and Buddhism. The method of recognition method of enlightenment he advocated and the renovation of the inner theory of Five School(五宗) of Zen, which were influenced by "the doctrine of Lin-ji"(臨濟宗旨)by Huei-hon Jueh-fan(惠弘覺範), traced back to the academic atmosphere of the southern China. After Han-yueh's self-education, he tried very hard to find someone to acknowledge his understanding. The second period of his life is full of dramatic episode, when Mi-yun accepted Han-yueh as his pupil, Han-yueh rejected their relationship many times for their disagreement in the "the doctrine of Lin-ji". In the third period, his controversial behavior push Han-yueh act uniquely, but there were so many followers which ensured and strengthened his social status in Buddhist community very firmly. In this article I try to penetrate the highly complicated processes of searching a master, they reveals in tree aspects:(1) the understanding and approval in the teachings of Zen.(2) the definition of the ethics between teacher and followers.(3) the socialization of the Zen -- between Sacred and Secular.
