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Definition of Oxhead

Oxhead
Oxhead Ox"head`, n. [Cf. Hogshead.] Literally, the head of an ox (emblem of cuckoldom); hence, a dolt; a blockhead. Dost make a mummer of me, oxhead? --Marston.

Meaning of Oxhead from wikipedia

- The Oxhead school (牛頭宗 Niu-t'ou zong) was an important tradition of Chinese Chan Buddhism in the Tang dynasty, which claimed to have been founded by Niutou...
- and Horse-Face, two types of underworld guardians in Chinese mythology Oxhead school, school of Chan Buddhism Niutou River (literally "cow head river")...
- Encyclopædia Britannica of 1911 conjectured that the word should therefore be "oxhead", "hogshead" being a mere corruption. A tobacco hogshead was used in British...
- to Fa-hai, but was probably written, or redacted, within the so-called Oxhead school, which existed along with the East Mountain School and Shen****'s...
- Chan lineage, the Oxhead school, is based on their understanding of emptiness, which Zongmi saw as one sided. He claimed that the Oxhead School taught "no...
- sixth patriarch. Major schools are the Northern School, Southern School and Oxhead school. Middle Chán (c. 750–1000, from An Lushan Rebellion c. 755–763 to...
- (Lotus school) Huayan (Avatamsaka school) Chan (Zen) Sanjiejiao (historical) Oxhead school (historical) East Mountain Teaching (historical) Heze school (historical)...
- school and the Oxhead school. Some of Mazu's students were known to have come from the Oxhead school and others were sent to study at Oxhead monasteries...
- Xuemai lun), according to Yanagida, this is a treatise by a member of the Oxhead school (7th-8th century) of Chan. The Jueguan lun, (Treatise on the Transcendence...
- in China from the Oxhead (Jp. Gozu) school and Northern schools integrated them into his Tendai system. He was a student of the Oxhead master Shunian (Shukunen)...