Was Zhenxie Qingliao 真歇清了 an “Evil Master”?

Abstract

As far as it is possible to judge by the content of the “Niangu 拈古” of the Jiewai lu 劫外録of Zhenxie Qingliao 真歇清了, his style of Chan does not stagnate in the kind of fixation for silence and quietness that was an object of criticism by Dahui 大慧, and it contains elements of a Chan that proclaims the identity of action and stillness, alertness and quiescence.