From Lishui in Chuzhou, lay surname Wu, born 1304. Tonsured at fifteen at Chanzhi monastery under Kongzhong Jia, he practised sitting so hard he went three years without sleeping through a night. He wandered Fujian and found no one; back home he rebuilt the old Fulin cloister on Mount Baiyun and read the Surangama and the Yuanjue. He got nowhere with Lingshi at Jingci or Duanya at Xifeng — but hearing that Wujian Xiandu was teaching on Huading he went, and 'at one sight cut out his own heart', serving him for years. He returned to Fulin in 1354 and later held Puci, Maoshan and Wufeng. Summoned by the Hongwu emperor in 1369 to the great assembly at Jiangshan, he went. He died in 1370, aged sixty-seven; his cremation yielded five-coloured relics.
References: DILA Authority A010645
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