Southern Song Chan master of the Linji/Yangqi line, surname Liu of Wuxing, eighteenth generation under Huineng. He left home at thirteen at Qizheng cloister in Deqing and grasped the sutras at a glance. Calling on Fozhao Deguang at Maoshan, he awakened on the wind-and-banner koan and was sealed with the verse 'Today I pass you a single thread; cutting nails and shearing iron, it raises up our school.' He later sat facing a wall for ten years below Miaogao peak on Lushan - whence the name Miaofeng - headed Huiyin and other monasteries, and finished at Lingyin in Hangzhou. The assembly affectionately called him 'Old Liu' (老劉). Died 1235, aged 84.
References: DILA Authority
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