Linji master of the Song, lay surname Yao. He left home at nineteen and worked hard at the Tiantai teaching, but felt he could not efface his own traces, and so went round the noted teachers seeking the Chan dharma; coming at last to Longmen he awakened outright, presented a verse to Foyan Qingyuan, and received his seal. He went to Lushan and sat without food inside a withered tree at Tong'an, to the wonder of all; before long he moved to Nanyue, where he would ride out on a tiger, so that Confucians and Buddhists alike bowed in his dust and the fourfold assembly called him the tiger-tamer. He ended as abbot on Mount Huanglong in Longxing, Jiangxi. He died in 1149, aged sixty-six.
References: DILA Authority A008460
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