Of the Long clan of Tongchuan. His father died when he was eleven (or twelve) and he was tonsured under the old man Sanshan Denglai at Gaofeng; fully ordained at twenty-two. He heard Sanshan raise the case of Nanquan's pitcher and goose and had an insight, then worked the 'wu' case for a year until Sanshan raised Baizhang's opening of the fields and, at the words 'he spread his hands', broke through completely and was sealed. When Sanshan died in 1685 he succeeded to his seat. He restored Fayu monastery on Mount Putuo, converting it from a vinaya house to a Chan one — its first Chan abbot — and also held Yongshou at Dongyuan in Wulin. He compiled the Xudeng zhengtong, one of the very lamp records this harvest depends on, and the chronological biography of his own master. He died on the first day of the tenth month of 1717, aged 57, in his forty-fifth year as a monk.
References: DILA Authority A000635
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