Of Jingjiang; abbot of Tianning monastery in Yangzhou. The county gazetteer says he was born strange-minded: at ten he told his father he wanted to be a monk and was refused; married at seventeen, he shared a room with his wife for three years without ever undressing; at twenty he cut his hair for good. He entered Chongsheng in his own county, found the monks there worth nothing, and went on to Guangxiao in Hangzhou. He became the FIRST of the dharma heirs of Jude Hongli, the great restorer of Lingyin and Jingshan. He taught women as well as men: the nun Shangrong of Nianhua hermitage in Jiangdu and the nun Qilian of Guidi hermitage in Suzhou both came to him at Tianning and were sealed by him. He died on the 27th of the first month of 1666, aged 62. His teacher outlived him and came back to Tianning to close his stupa.
References: DILA Authority A016179
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