Of the Fu (or Chuan) clan of Shangrao, Xinzhou. At eight he became a boy-attendant to the elder Chuan of Jingde monastery, who set him to bow to Guanyin; one night he dreamed the bodhisattva stroked his head, and thereafter books opened themselves to him. Struck by the Platform Sutra's phrase about fire burning the sea-floor, he went to Wuyi Yuanlai at Boshan, who set him on the Boatman Monk's case; he held it walking, standing, sitting and lying, and had an insight in the mill-shed when the millstone's nose pulled loose. He then sealed himself in for six years and reached the source; he wrote the Song of the Snow Barrier, and Wuyi, pleased, opened his door and made him head monk. He took the seat at Yingshan in 1627, and on Wuyi's death in 1631 the assembly pushed him to succeed at Boshan. In 1636 Huqiu and Miaoxing in Hangzhou invited him. Falling ill in autumn 1637 he resigned, sailed south, and reached Yingshan on the first of winter; he died on the eleventh day of the tenth month, aged 53, in his thirty-first summer.
References: DILA Authority A011738
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