Damei Faying (hall-name Zujing) was a Song Chan master of Mt. Damei in Qingyuan prefecture (modern Ningbo), a native of Yin county surnamed Zhang who abandoned Confucian study and doctrinal lecturing at Yanqing for Chan under Jiufeng Jianshao. He is remembered above all for his defiance during Huizong's forced Daoicization of the sangha: when the edict restoring monks and nuns came in the early Shaoxing era (c. 1131) he alone had never changed his resolve, and mounted the seat in birch cap, crane cloak, ivory tablet and vermilion shoes, discarding each with a verse — 'Bodhidharma carried one sandal home; ever since, his children and grandchildren go barefoot.'
References: DILA Authority
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