As for the lineage of Zen Buddhism, the teacher's records of Lengga Sutra show that bodhidharma is the first ancestor, the second is the second, and Shen Xiu is the seventh. God insists that Nanzong is orthodox, Buddhism is the ancestor of Zen in China, and advocates that the six generations of Buddhism-Hui Ke-Monk's wife-Taoist heart-forbearance-wisdom can come down in one continuous line. The Biography of Lin Bao by Tang Zhiju takes From Ye Jia to the Lion and Monk as the 24th, followed by Shiva Sheduo, Not as Good as Honey and Prajna Paramita as the 28th. Zutangji and Yongming Yanshou's Record of Jing Zong inherited this theory, and Song Daoyuan's Record of Jingde Dengchuan and Song Qi's Biography also adopted this theory, which became the orthodox theory of Zen.
Zutangji is a valuable material for studying the spread of Zen in Korea.
The Buddhist monks in Haidong included in Zutang Collection include Yuanji monk (De) of Chen Tian Temple in Yue Yun, Tongli monk in Dongguo (Hui monk), Shihang monk in Dongguo (Hongzhi monk), Huimushan monk in Dongguo (Yuxuan monk), Dongshan master in Yanzhou, Song Yanshan monk who lived in the temple in the last two dynasties (Wu Ran), Shuangfeng monk in Haidong, and monks in the last two dynasties.
Zen master Yi Dao was born in Tang Dezong in the Tang Dynasty in 784. In the thirty-seventh year of Tang Dynasty, he saw Xitang Zhicang and Baizhang Huaihai, and returned to China in the first year of Changqing, Mu Zong (82 1), becoming the ancestor of Jiazi Mountain in Haidong. Huizu Shi, born in the Tang Dynasty in the 9th year of Yuanhe (8 14), went to Fusha Temple in Xizhou for three years and returned to Silla in the 4th year (839) to become a Zen master here. Master Hongzhi is the ancestor of Shidangshan in Haidong. Jackson Wu Ran, the legal heir of car insurance in Magu Mountain, Zhou Pu, accompanied Wang Zixin to the Tang Dynasty in the first year of Changqing (82 1), listened to Huayan Sutra from Nanshan to Xiang Si, and then went to the Beidou Temple in Luoyang to consult Yu Ruman, who also insured cars in Zhou Pu. He was deeply impressed by his intentions. Huichang returned to China in the fifth year (N5) and became a disciple of Shengshan Sect, with 2,000 disciples. Zen master Yu Xuan was born in the Tang Dynasty in the fourth year of Changqing (824), and returned to China in the second year of Kaicheng (837) to live in Huimushan Gaoda Temple. Zen master Shunzhi, in the twelfth year of Dazhong (858), accompanied the country to the Tang Dynasty and went back to the mountains to learn dharma, which was the first biography of Silla.
The ancestral hall collection is a precious material for studying the history of Buddhism in Quanzhou.
There are 13 Zen monks in Quanzhou recorded in Zutangji, including Xuefeng, Yongquan, Huadu and Zhaoqing, which provides valuable information for studying the development of Zen in Quanzhou.