Of the Zeng (曾) family of Dianjiang in Sichuan; his lay name was Zeng Bubo. He held a Confucian degree and sat the examinations repeatedly without success. A monk brought him Chuiwan Guangzhen's Gu yin wang zhuan; he read it over and over 'as if drunk, as if waking', then got hold of the records of Tiebi Huiji and of Master Bazhang, and 'the mind-flower opened'. He swore to himself: 'one day I shall be a child of the Juyun house.' His mother died when he was twenty-six and his father three years later; within two months of the funeral the country rose in revolt, he hid for six months, his wife died of illness, and he gave his two sons to his elder brother and took the robe from the two masters Nan and Zhe of Mt. Diaoyan. Sheltering from the war at Dongming monastery in Zhongzhou he wrote to TIEBI HUIJI and got a reply; he went into the mountains to him. He entered the hall on the twenty-sixth of the eleventh month of 1648 and broke through in 1649; he formally received Tiebi's dharma in 1654. He was abbot of Chongsheng and Xinglong in Sichuan, of Tianning in Zhejiang, and founded Gaofeng Kaixi in Zhongzhou. He wrote the Wujia zongzhi zuanyao (五家宗旨纂要), a manual of the doctrines of the five houses. He died on the eighteenth of the seventh month of 1685.
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