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Yunmen Wenyan (Chinese: 雲門文偃; pinyin: Yúnmén Wényǎn; romaji: Ummon Bun'en; 862 or 864 – 949 CE), was a major Chinese Chan master of the Tang dynasty. He was a dharma-heir of Xuefeng Yicun.

Yunmen founded the Yunmen school, one of the five major schools of Chán (Chinese Zen). The name is derived from Yunmen monastery of Shaozhou where Yunmen was abbot. The Yunmen school flourished into the early Song Dynasty, with particular influence on the upper classes, and eventually culminating in the compilation and writing of the Blue Cliff Record.

The school would eventually be absorbed by the Linji school later in the Song. The lineage still lives on to this day through Chan Master Hsu Yun (1840–1959).

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Title	Speaker	Date
Right Speech Serial: SF-00037 The eight-fold path and its relationship to the precepts. Ummon, Koan, Right Speech, Suzuki Roshi, Conversation, Heart Sutra, Zazen, Buddha...	Marc Lesser	Sep 16 2006
Blue Cliff Record: Case #86: "Everyone Has Their Light" Serial: BZ-01205 Temple Storehouse, Temple Gate, Rohatsu Day 5 Ummon, BCR-86, Doubt, Buddha Nature, Darkness and Light, Buddha Ancestors, Hindrances...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 02 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Blue Cliff Record: Case #36 Serial: BZ-00125A Um-mon's “Everyone has their Light”, Rohatsu Day 1 Ummon, BCR-36, Doubt, Buddha Nature, Subject-and-Object, Gaining Mind, Don't...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 04 2000 Berkeley Zen Center
Blue Cliff Record: Case #50 Serial: BZ-00195A Um-mon's “Particle after Particle Samadhi”, Saturday Lecture Ummon, Samadhi, BCR-50, Attachment, Samadhi, Emotions, Lotus Sutra, Blue Cliff Record...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 11 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
Koun Ejo's Commentary - Ummon's Radiant Light Serial: BZ-00438B Saturday Lecture Koun Ejô, Ummon, Buddha Nature, Discrimination, Subject-and-Object, Samadhi,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 11 1998 Berkeley Zen Center
Universe As Medicine Serial: BZ-00356B Saturday Lecture Ummon, Koan, Religion, Manjushri, Bell, Sixth Patriarch, Demons, Ego, Attachment,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Aug 22 1998 Berkeley Zen Center
Wind Stops, But Still Flower Falls Serial: SR-00163 This audio has been improved, so more of the students' questions may be discernible. Ummon, Faith, Freedom, Dragons, Community, Emptiness, Wisdom, Building, American,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 15 1971 Tassajara
Purely Involved Helping Others Nansen, things-as-it-is, Discrimination, Ummon, Wisdom, Freedom, Discrimination,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 22 1971 City Center
The Zen of Going to the Rest Room Ummon, Tangaryo, Culture, Monastic Practice, Suffering, American, Don't Know...	Suzuki Roshi	Mar 29 1970 City Center