From Lingling in southern Chu, lay surname Tang, born 1625; the youngest of four sons, orphaned early. He slipped away at thirteen to be tonsured by the master Hongren at Dading hermitage, took the seven-piece robe from the Venerable Wuxue the next year, and studied vinaya and the sutras. He found no connection with Shanci Ji at Nanyue; at Xishan he served Suigu Yuan for years and had his opening there, blowing on a dying cooking-fire that flared through the whole hermitage. But it was Baizhang Jingle who gave him the dharma, in 1647, after testing him on the Five Ranks. He opened Yishan in 1655 and moved to Xiangshan in Quanzhou. He died in 1688, aged sixty-three.
References: DILA Authority A019778 | DILA Authority A027430
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