Of the Han clan of Yanguan (Haining), born on the thirteenth day of the tenth month of 1576. He resolved on the monastic life as a small child and was tonsured at Xingshan monastery in Zuili under Qinquan. He took the full precepts from the elder Guxin, then went into retreat at the old hermitage of Chexi on Mount Baiyun at Shuangjing and did not go out of doors for three years. One day he picked up a scrap of paper from the ground bearing the line 'Knowing the direction, one knows he has gone; but the one who goes does not arrive at a direction' — and had an insight. He brought it to the old man, who sealed him and made him head monk. He served Chexi at Jingshan for eight years, and the old man gave him the robe and a transmission verse. He then shut himself in a death-retreat at Yongqing monastery at Gaoting for four years. He made three vows: never to take a public seat, never to handle temple business, never to gather disciples. He died sitting, on the twenty-seventh day of the eleventh month of 1620, aged 45, in his twenty-third year as a monk. His heir was Yuanhu Miaoyong.
References: DILA Authority A010707
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