Of the Yu clan of Hezhou, Chongqing; his mother was a Xun. Born on the 7th of the 8th month of 1610. At eight his father took him to Taikong at Madangshan in his home county and left him there. In 1635 he left Sichuan, called first on Sheng of Tiantong, and then went to old master Lin of Tongxuan — Linye Tongqi — and 'penetrated the deep principle utterly, and so received the dharma as his true heir.' That same year he made a hut on Huading in Tiantai, and afterwards held Guanghua, Luohan (1648), Ciji (1649), Fahai (1650), Yuelin (1651), Longyuan (1654) and Furong at Jingxi (1656). In the third month of 1661 he sickened; on the 27th of the twelfth he bathed, settled the affairs of the house, wrote instructions for the community charging his monks to forget the body and spread the dharma, then wrote his verse, threw down the brush — 'even this smells of the world' — and died. Thirty-three dharma heirs; aged 53, 34 years in robes.
References: DILA Authority A016227
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