Huineng

The Sixth Patriarch of Chan — by his own tradition's telling an illiterate firewood-seller who heard one line of the Diamond Sutra in a market and woke, then won the succession with a verse rebutting the head monk's: there is no mirror-stand, so where would dust land?

The story Chan chose to tell about itself: that awakening owes nothing to learning, status, or the polishing of anything.