Of the Luo (羅) family of Pengchi in Pengzhou, Sichuan. As a small boy he heaped up mud and sand into the shape of stupas; when the monk Zudeng of Anguo monastery on Mt. Yuzhang came to the house he pressed his palms together, and Zudeng laid a hand on his head and asked whether he would follow him. He was tonsured at nineteen. Zudeng taught him the pratyutpanna nianfo samadhi, which did not suit him; he went to the lecture halls of Chengdu and studied the Nature treatises, then said 'is scholastic learning the final dharma? — I have tasted enough', and went south out of the Three Gorges. He saw Huai'an Zhao at Zhaojue, Zhewong Ruyan at Jingshan, and followed Gaoyuan Zuquan to Ruiyan in Taizhou. Zuquan could not open him and at last said 'my devices are exhausted and you will not look — the connection is not here; go and see Xuedou', and Liaohui went. THE MAN THEN HOLDING THE SEAT AT XUEDOU WAS FOJIAN WUZHUN SHIFAN. He was abbot of Dinghui, then Nengren in Dongjia, Donglin in Jiangzhou and Tiantong in Mingzhou, retiring at last to Huanzhi hermitage. He died on the twenty-second of the third month of 1262, aged 65.
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