'East Mountain Teaching' denotes a school of Chan, often glossed "Northern School" by Western scholarship. This nomenclature was perpetuated in western scholarship which for the most part has been largely through the lens of southern Chan. The term "East Mountain Teaching" (Chinese: dong shan fa men) is more culturally and historically appropriate. East Mountain gets its name from the East Mountain Temple on 'Shuangfeng' ("Twin Peaks") of Huangmei. The East Mountain Temple was on the easternmost peak of the two. "Northern School" is considered pejorative, implying the aphorism: "suddenness of the South, gradualness of the North" (Chinese: nan-tun bei qian; Japanese: nanton hokuzen). This characterization of East Mountain Teaching is unfounded in light of documented evidence found amongst m