Named Yuancheng, styled Falan; of Zhijiang in Jingzhou, Chen clan. At twenty he was tonsured by the Chan master Sucheng at the Bodhi-site; at twenty-five he took full precepts from the dharma master Daze. At thirty-three he went to Shaweng Hai (Shuijian Huihai) at the Tianwang monastery in Jingzhou, served as prior, then head of the hall, then first seat; one day Hai raised his whisk and said 'if you understand it here, the hundred flavours are complete', and he awoke at the word — Hai gave him the whisk as a token. He came out at Tianwang, then Dumen, then Putichang, and finally was invited by the provincial commander Xu Zhidu to open Bao'en monastery as its first abbot. He fell ill as Bao'en was being finished and died in 1689, aged 64, forty-four years a monk.
References: DILA Authority A000898
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