Song-dynasty Yunmen-line master, 雁蕩文吉禪師, based at Mt. Yandang 雁蕩 (also written 雁宕). A dharma-heir of Wuzu Shijie 五祖師戒, he is recorded in the 建中靖國續燈錄 among Shijie's forty heirs and left one heir of his own, Jingguang Weijue. He is remembered for the exchange on dharma-succession in which, asked whom he had inherited, he answered 「無角鐵牛眠少室，生兒石女老黃梅」 — prompting the questioner to identify him as 「韶陽兒孫」, a descendant of Yunmen Wenyan.
References: DILA Authority
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