Named Yinsu; of Yichun county, Yu clan. A dream at six sent him to the monk Xian at Shoulong cloister; he shaved his head at twenty-seven and took precepts the year after. Told to recite sutras, he answered that the Buddhas' meaning must be realised in the mind, not counted off in ink, and left to travel Hunan, where he called on Mu'an Fazhong at Dawei. Back at his home cloister, in 1153 the neighbouring Cihua monastery asked him to preside. It had no endowment; he lived on gruel and paper robes and, apart from meditation, read only the Huayan sutra and its commentary — until one day he broke into a sweat all over and said, 'I have touched the Huayan realm myself.' From then his sayings, verses and healing became famous across a thousand li: he gave herbs and verses to the sick and to plague villages, prayed for rain, tore down shrines, and above all built — bridges and roads everywhere, so that anyone discussing meritorious works had to mention Pu'an. Died 1169, aged 55, twenty-eight years ordained; entombed whole on the first of the eleventh month. He was later absorbed into popular religion as the deity Pu'an Zushi.
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