Linji master of Tui'an at Jiaxing, of the Jin family of Xiushui; his father was styled Chengdan and his mother of the Tang clan. In his own account of conduct, given at the Layman Pang's tea-offering on the eighth day of the twelfth month of 1669, he says he was born on the twenty-seventh day of the fourth month of 1622; both parents died early and his grandfather raised him. As a boy he dreamt Guanyin laid a hand on his head, and thereafter held to her name. At sixteen, his grandfather ill and wanting the marriage completed, he refused; his grandfather died sitting, his grandmother followed, and after the burials he left. He was tonsured at twenty at the Dongta Chan monastery by the old master Juera. In 1643 the great master Xuejiao held the retreat, and asked him sweeping the floor, 'why did you leave home?' 'My parents died early; I fear birth and death.' 'Then why not investigate the one that has no birth and death?' — and struck him. Cutting firewood one day, a hare broke cover, he dropped the knife, and awoke. He later called on Gunan Muyun, on Fu, and on Yu, and at last on the old man Yongzheng in his retreat cell — Yichu Wuyuan — who became his master and gave him the name Tui'an. He died in 1677.
References: DILA Authority A016482 | DILA Authority A010711 (his teacher 一初悟元)
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