There’s no self and no person,
How then kinfolk and stranger!
I beg you, cease going from lecture to lecture;
It’s better to seek truth directly.
The nature of Diamond Wisdom
Excludes even a speck of dust.
From “Thus have I heard,” to “This I believe,”
All’s but an array of unreal names.

Layman Pang (740 CE-808 CE), Layman Pang was a celebrated lay Buddhist in the Chinese Chán (Zen) tradition. Much like Vimalakīrti, Layman Pang is considered to exemplify the potential for non-monastic Buddhist followers to live an exemplary life and to be fully awakened.