'Crazy Ji'. From Linhai in Tiantai, lay surname Li. He was tonsured at eighteen at Lingyin under Xiatang Huiyuan and inherited his dharma. He drank, ate meat and drifted through the markets, and was called Ji the Madman; after Huiyuan died he went to Jingci under Dehui and served as secretary. He died in 1209, aged sixty, after forty-two years in robes. He became, over the following centuries, the most popular saint in Chinese Buddhism.
References: DILA Authority A008109 | DILA Authority
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