Benjing of Sikong shan, a native of Jiangzhou surnamed Zhang, who took the robe as a boy in Caoxi's room and received the seal from the Sixth Patriarch Huineng, then settled at Wuxiang monastery on Sikong shan. In 744 (Tianbao 3) Emperor Xuanzong's envoy Yang Guangting, sent into the mountains to gather ivy, came to his cell and begged instruction; Benjing deflected him ('the great scholars of the Chan school are all gathered in the capital — ask them; I lean on the mountain and lie by the water with nothing to occupy my mind'), and Guangting wept and bowed.
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