Although Fengxue is the first academic master of Ling-Chi School in North-Song Dynasty, contemporary scholars do not pay much attention to him. The only studies of Fengxue are found in Choichi Abe’s “History of Zeng School in China” and Yang, Zeng-wen’s “Song and Yuang’s Zeng School.” Yang, Zeng-wen’s research offers a better view of Fengxue’s thought, while Choichi Abe’s work provids merely a brief biography. However, they do not have sufficient emphasis on a complete history of Fengxue’s Zeng theory. In addition, their researches do not include the newly excavated text, “Fengxue si qizu qianfeng baiyun chanyuan ji.” In this paper, my research is not only based on this original text, but also includes 20 kinds of “second-hand” texts, which include “Five-Dynasties literature,” “North-Song literature,” “South-Song literature,” and “Yuan-Ming-Qing literature.” Based on these, we can have a better view to investigate Fengxue’s life and his Zen theory. I wish this research of Fengxue will be moreaccurate and complete.
