中國襌宗自從六祖惠能奠基創立以來，逐漸在中國肥沃智慧園地裡開花結 果而發展出「一花五葉」的五個宗派。其中，法眼宗成立最晚，但是其襌理兼 容並蓄，尤其是其所提倡的「華嚴襌」深具襌宗與華嚴宗結合的特質，獨樹一 格，值得我們去學習、研究與發揚光大。 法眼宗開山祖師法眼文益大師一方面繼承惠能「自性」（佛性或覺性）、 青原行思「不落階級」、石頭希遷「參同契」理事不二思想以及羅漢桂琛「一 切現成」，另方面融合了華嚴宗五祖法藏的「新十玄」與「六相圓融」華嚴思 想而產生「華嚴禪」，使得中國襌學更加圓通與圓滿。 法眼文益大師「華嚴襌」本著襌宗「繞道說襌」及「言亡慮絕」的遮詮間 接表達方式而提出九點語言特性（一、善誘性；二、否定性；三、矛盾性； 四、暗喻性；五、詩喻性；六、方便性；七、當下性；八、無言性；九、實踐 性），以彰顯襌學的語言方便殊勝妙用。他的接引方法採用：一、答非所問 法；二、暗喻不直說法；三、反求諸己法；四、重複法；五、反問法等五種教 育方法，來引導眾生轉苦為樂，以度化眾生。至於他的宗風特色是接物利生、 應病與藥、自然平實，兼具曹洞宗「穩健細密」與雲門宗「高古隱約」的優 點。總之，法眼文益大師秉持佛法「不執著」精神，一切隨時節因緣，了脫生 死，成就阿耨多羅三藐三菩提。

The Chinese ch’an (zen), since the sixth patriarch Hui-neng laid a foundation for the establishment, has blossomed and born fruit gradually in the Chinese fertilized. Wisdom-fields develops five sects of “one flower and five leaves”. And the establishment of master rev. Fa-yen Wen-yi sect (法眼宗) was the latest, but its principles of ch’an compatibly, particularly it advocated “Hua-yen’s ch’an” which completely chinese ch’an combined the Hua-yen (Kegon) school (華嚴宗) to unify into the special characteristic, became unique, and was worth of us studying, and carrying forward. The founder of Fa-yen’s ch’an whom great master rev. Fa-yen Wen-yi (法眼文益大 師) inherited the sixth patriarch Hui-neng’s “self-nature” (Buddha-nature), at the same time, had the thought of master rev. Ching-yuan Hsing-ssu “did not attach the social class”, master rev. Shih-t’ou Shi-ch’ien “the agreement between reality and phenomena”, worked together non-dual wisdom of Buddha (dharmaparyaya) and as well as master rev. Lo-han Kuei-ch’eng “everything is a present reality”. On the other hand, he integrated the fifth patriarch Fa-tsang’s “new ten myths” and “six attribute’s harmony” in the Hua-yen school. Then, this produced “Hua-yen’s ch’an, and caused the study of Chinese ch’an to be more flexible and to be complete. Fa-yen Wen-yi’s Hua-yen ch’an based on Chinese ch’an’s negative method of “detour in line with meditation” and “beyond language and beyond reason” expression to propose nine linguistic characteristics: 1.good temptation 2.negativity 3.contradiction 4.metaphor 5.poetry 6.convenience 7.immediacy 8.taciturnity 9.practicality, in order to show the unique wonderful use of Chinese ch’an. He received and instructed five kinds of educational methodology: 1.irrelevant replies 2.metaphical and indirect expression of “no explaining frankly” 3.engaging in self-examination 4.redundant method 5.rebutting in reply. It guided all living things to transfer painstaking into happiness. In sum, Fa-yen Wen-yi grasped the spirit of Buddhist “no attachment”, all along with the season hetupratyaya, the reincarnation have died, achievement anutra samyak-sambhodhi. (阿耨多羅三藐三菩提, 其意譯為無上正等正覺)