Named Liaowu or Mingwu, called Wuji, also Canggu ('silkworm bone'); of the Mo clan of Anyue county, Tongchuan prefecture, Shu. He left home at twenty at Luowei monastery in Dingyuan under Benzhen, then went round the great monasteries of Shu. The Qing Bodhisattva raised Zhaozhou's 'no' for him and something opened; from then he carried the word 'no' walking, standing, sitting and lying. He went into the hills at Fanchang to Guzhuo Jun, who saw him, was astonished, and gave him the dharma on one word. He then settled at Daolin monastery at Jiguang for over forty years. In 1444 the new ordination platform at Wanshou monastery brought a summons to the capital, where he was made a master of the school. He died at dawn on the first day of the fourth month, 1446, aged sixty-six, forty-eight years a monk; his Daolin Record survives. Chushan Shaoqi and Guting Shanjian came from his gate.
References: DILA Authority A009565
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