Of the Wu clan of Poyang. He was received by the monk Zhenchun Mu at Bao'en monastery at five and ordained at seven. The Central Asian monk Kongjian saw him and thought him remarkable, and sent him to Yuansou Xingduan at Jingshan, who made him record-keeper; Yuansou said of him, 'Recorder Ren is a tiger, and winged.' He came out as abbot at Yunding and Chongbao in Yuezhou, and at Huqiu and Wanshou in Suzhou. He was learned in the inner and outer canons and especially deep in the Book of Changes. In the Hongwu era he was summoned to the capital with Chushi Fanqi and Mengtang Tan'e and lodged at Tianjie monastery; his memorial pleased the Ming founder. He spent his last years at the Songlin hermitage. He died on the nineteenth day of the third month of 1382, aged 74, in his sixty-seventh year as a monk. He left the Danju shigao.
References: DILA Authority A014441
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