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Huangbo: The Chan master of Mount Huangbo in Hongzhou (which is Longxing in Jiangxi, belonging to the territory of Yangzhou) was named Xiyun. He was a native of Min. In his youth he went forth from the household at Mount Huangbo in Fuzhou. Having received full ordination, he traveled to the capital. He went to Jiangxi to call upon Chan Master Baizhang Huaihai, and intimately awakened to the essential mind. When Chief Minister Pei Xiu was stationed in Wanling, he built a great Chan monastery and invited the master to preach the Dharma, naming the monastery Huangbo after his former mountain. After Pei Xiu resonated in mind [with him], he gathered the master's spoken Dharma words and arranged them into fascicles, entitled The Essential Dharma of Huangbo, which was entered into the Great Canon and circulated. In the eighth month of the fourth year of Dazhong (850), the master entered cessation. By imperial decree he was granted the posthumous title Chan Master Duanji, and his stupa was named Guangci. The master was a dharma heir of Baizhang Huaihai; Hai was a dharma heir of Chan Master Mazu Daoyi (Transmission of the Lamp).