Of the Erhai region in Yunnan, Wang clan, mother of the Duo clan; born 1613. At twelve his parents told him he did not look fit to stay in the world and should become a monk 'to lengthen your years'; at fourteen his father took him up Jizu shan to Jiguang monastery to be tonsured. He fretted openly about death while the other novices laughed at him. He studied under Dali, Yeyu, Cheyong and Liaofan, then heard the Lotus and Surangama lectures for a few years, and worked the 'not mind, not Buddha, not a thing' phrase for twelve or thirteen years with no way in. At thirty-six, in a sealed room, reciting the Sutra of Ten Thousand Buddha Names, he had barely opened his mouth on the words 'namo' when body and mind fell away 'like one wheel of a bright moon'. He then took it to Wumu Wuzhu. His dharma came by letter and whisk from Mixing Jiren at Nanyun cloister in Hengzhou, in 1671. He taught across Yunnan — Jiutai shan, Fucheng at Chuxiong, Dafangguang, Xianyang. Died 1689, aged 77; his stupa is on Jizu shan.
References: DILA Authority A010644
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