Of the Xie clan of Yongquan, Xingguo (Hubei); born on the 12th of the 10th month of 1626. In 1645, aged twenty, unwilling to stay a householder, he shaved his head at Bao'en monastery and went north among the lecture-halls. In 1650 he came south again over the matter of birth and death, and one day after the meal, looking into his original face, he split it open at a stroke: 'The face is wholly shown, it was never covered up — how many times did I fold my hands and ask in the hall? What I see now is not another's seeing; a lifetime's ease, and the bones gone cool.' He went to Feiyin Tongrong at Jingshan, who shouted him down and named and ordained him; he called on Yulin Tongxiu, Wanru Tongwei and Muchen Daomin; and then he came to DUGUAN XINGJING at Wuxing, who sealed him. From 1658 he opened Tiefo at Jing, restored Tianwang (1661), took Dizang at Yangzhou (1662), Tianwang again (1665), rebuilt Huanglong at Ezhou (1668), went to Qixian at Hanyang (1670), and took Guanghui at Jinsu (1676). Five seats, four of them rebuilt from ruin. He died in 1687; eleven dharma heirs.
References: DILA Authority A001716
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