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Chan Master Chunao of Mount Qianqing in Hangzhou was a son of the Zhang family of Fuzhou. He received the mind-seal from Huangbo. He initially arrived at Bao'en Temple in Gusu, where he assiduously cultivated Chan meditation for more than twenty years without his feet stepping over the threshold. Soon he took up residence at Ciyun on Mount Zhixing in Qiantang. Although he responded to conditions without fatigue, he constantly dwelt in Chan meditation, sometimes for more than a month or for a ten-day period. During the Guangqi era of Xizong, Prefect Qian Liu invited the master to come down from the mountain to receive offerings. When Xizong heard of his teaching and transforming, he bestowed a purple robe upon him. In the fifth month of the first year of the Wende reign era under Xizong, he entered quiescence at the age of seventy-six. A stupa was built for him in the western corner of the monastery. The master authored the Treatise on Refuting Heterodoxy (Poxie lun), which circulated in the world. He was a dharma heir of Chan Master Huangbo Yun. When the second year of Dashun arrived, Sun Ru of Xuanzhou raided Qiantang and opened the stupa to view the master: his whole body, nails, and hair were all long. He bowed in veneration, repaired the stupa, and departed (Record of the Transmission of the Lamp).