釋鑑稽古略續集 3.25

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Chan Master Wu'ai: Taboo name Puzhi, also styled Yizhisou, was a son of the Chu family in Linping, Zhejiang. He left home at Longjing Monastery and relied on Master Dongming Ri, who transmitted to him the Tiantai doctrine of nature-inclusion. He excelled in exposition and traversed four great monasteries, causing the style of the school to flourish greatly. In his later years he preached at Yanqing Monastery in Songjiang, where he eventually spent his final days. He devoted himself exclusively to Pure Land practice without interruption, winter or summer. In the spring of this year, on the second day, feeling slightly unwell, he assembled the congregation, sat upright facing west, recited the Buddha's name, and passed away. He had once compiled a commentary on the Amitābha Sūtra in one fascicle. Up to this point, it had been two thousand four hundred years since the sandalwood auspicious image [was made].