Tsun-shih ［遵式］ (964–1032) (PY Zunshi;  Junshiki): A priest of the T’ien-t’ai school in China. At first he studied the teachings of Zen (Ch’an), but later turned to the T’ien-t’ai doctrine, which he studied under I-t’ung. In 991 he lectured on the Lotus, Vimalakīrti, Nirvana, and Golden Light sutras. In 1022 he was given the name Tz’u-yün (Merciful Cloud) by Emperor Chen-tsung and was thereafter called the Venerable Tz’u-yün. He enhanced the fame of the T’ien-t’ai school, and in 1024 successfully petitioned the throne to have the school’s texts and commentaries included in the official Chinese Buddhist canon. He left behind a number of commentaries on both T’ien-t’ai and Pure Land doctrines. When Jakushō, a priest of the Japanese Tendai school, traveled to China in 1003 to study the T’ien-t’ai doctrine, he brought with him a copy of Nan-yüeh’s work The Mahayana Method of Concentration and Insight, which had been lost for centuries in China. Tsun-shih was so delighted that he wrote an introduction to this work in which he stated: “It [Buddhism] came first from the west, like the moon appearing. Now it is returning from the east, like the sun rising.”