Xingsheng, styled Benchong, a Quanzhou man surnamed Wu who left a degree-track literary career to take the robe at 28, awakened under Feiyin Tongrong at Jinsu, and became abbot of Huiyun Chan monastery in Hangzhou. He wrote the 禪林寶訓拈頌 and 古鑑錄, and died in 1671; his body was reportedly found incorrupt when his reliquary split open seven years later.
References: DILA Authority A000418 | DILA Authority A001150 | Link
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