Of the Liu clan of Lianjiang, Fuzhou. At thirteen he took instruction from Yuexi; later he went to Huyan Jingfu at Lingyin, who gave him the dog-and-buddha-nature word to work on. In time he presented a verse and Huyan nodded, made him incense-attendant and then keeper of the canon, and his name spread. He taught at Biyun in Changzhou (1295), Dianshan in Songjiang, Nanchan in Tongzhou, Heshan in Huzhou (1322), Daochang (1329), and in 1333 took the abbacy of Ayuwang in Siming as its 58th master. The imperial preceptor gave him a gold-bordered robe and the title Buddha-Mind Universal Mirror. In the Zhizheng era he was ordered to hold the great Water-and-Land rite at Jinshan and to ascend the seat. In old age he lived in a hermitage he called Pine-and-Moon, and styled himself the Old Man of Pine and Moon. He wrote his verse and went; the relics from his cremation were past counting.
References: DILA Authority A009687 | DILA Authority
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