Linji master of the early Yuan, of the Wang family of Changxi in Fuzhou; his grandfather Yikui was county sheriff of Gutian and his father Liangfu magistrate of Huangyan. At seven he loved to read Buddhist books, and his father, seeing he was no ordinary child, had him leave home at Xuefeng in the prefecture. Six months later he went out over the Feiyuan ridge to Fazang at Yixing, and was ordained by Chan master Yifeng Qi; at fifteen he took the head-shaving and the full precepts, and travelled to all quarters. Passing Ayuwang he called on Chan master Jichuang Zhao, entered his room and matched him, and was made incense-attendant and then keeper of the library. He came out at Shouguo in Siming, moved to Kaishou, and afterwards was installed at Daochang in Huzhou, where he built the great Buddha hall and the Guanyin repository and had the canon copied. His fame reached the imperial court, which granted him a gold-brocade robe and the title Chan Master Fohai Xingkong. He died on the third day of the sixth month of 1301, aged sixty-three, having kept forty-eight summers and ordained more than two hundred and fifty disciples.
References: DILA Authority A009259 | DILA Authority A009669 (his teacher 寂窗有照)
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