釋氏稽古略 4.284

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In the Song, in the second month, it was decreed that the landed estates of the monasteries converted into Shenxiao Palaces in the seventh year of Zhenghe were to be completely returned to the Buddhist monasteries (Tongji). On the twenty-fifth day of the third month, Chan Master Cishou Huaishen was decreed to reside at the Huilin Chan Monastery of Da Xiangguo in the capital Bianjing. The Master was born into the Xia clan of Shouchun. He entered stillness in the second year of Shaoxing under Emperor Gaozong. He was the Dharma heir of Changlu Xin; Xin was the heir of Chan Master Huilin Yuanzhao Ben (Pudeng [lu]).