Xiánjié 咸傑
Southern-Sòng Yángqí-branch Línjì Chán master, styled Mì’ān Xiánjié 密菴咸傑. Native of Fúzhōu 福州. Per DILA A004691 and the pagoda inscription appended to his yǔlù: 1118 – Chúnxī 13.6.12 (7 July 1186), shì 69.
Dharma-heir of Yìng’ān Tánhuá 應庵曇華 (1103–1163), and through Tánhuá of 紹隆 Hǔqiū Shàolóng. Taught successively at the Wūjù shān Qiánmíng chányuàn 烏巨山乾明禪院 in Qúzhōu 衢州 (his first and longest abbacy, hence the alternate style 烏巨 Wūjù), and subsequently at six further sites; his final abbacy was at the Tiāntóng shān 天童山 in Míngzhōu (hence Tiāntóng Mì’ān 天童密菴). His recorded sayings, compiled by the senior disciples 崇岳 Sōngyuán Chóngyuè and 了悟 Xiào’ān Liǎowù and prefaced in Chúnxī 15 (1188) by Zhāng Zī 張鎡, survive as the Mì’ān héshàng yǔlù (KR6q0064).
His principal dharma-heir 崇岳 Sōngyuán Chóngyuè (1132–1202) and the line descending from him — to Yùnmén Shīfàn 運庵師範 (i.e. Wúzhǔn Shīfàn 無準師範 via a parallel branch, depending on reading) and ultimately Xūtáng Zhìyú 虛堂智愚 (1185–1269) — is the line that carried the Yángqí Línjì transmission to Japan in the late thirteenth century via Xūtáng’s Japanese heir Nānpo Jōmyō 南浦紹明, founder of the Ōtōkan 応燈関 line that supplied the main current of later Japanese Rinzai.