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As we turn to the Hongzhou school, it is conspicuous that in its records there is no evidence of the use of either symbolic exegesis or any other comparable strategies for bridging the gap between Chan and the canonical tradition.
For instance, the records of the Hongzhou school quote practically the same canonical texts as the records of Shehui,36 the Northern school, and Mahāyāna (Moheyan), the Chan teacher who was the Chinese representative at the Buddhist council in Lhasa (all of which were discovered in Dunhuang).
The success of the Hongzhou school was largely due to the fact that they proved themselves more capable of meeting both challenges than their predecessors and potential competitors within the Chan movement.
The Hongzhou masters are famous for their distinctive use of language and other means to trigger the enlightenment of their students.
Second, Hongzhou opposes Shenhui's interpretation of ti (the whole) as being independent of all causal conditions (yuan) and his interpretation of yong as the self-function of the ti itself abstracted from all everyday activities and circumstances.
Hongzhou, on the contrary, inherits and develops Huineng's legacy by placing more weight on the non-dualistic relation between all activities of the ordinary mind and the realization of Buddha-nature.