Dàsháo 大韶
Late-Míng Chán monk. Also written 大韻 Dàyùn. Hào Qiānsōng 千松 (“Thousand Pines”), from the Qiānsōng Chányuàn 千松禪院 on Biànshān 弁山 (var. 辨山) in Húzhōu 湖州 (modern northern Zhèjiāng near Tàihú 太湖). Lifedates unrecorded. Native place and ordination details not preserved.
Three works survive, all catalogued in the Xùzàngjīng:
- Qiān sōng bǐ jì 千松筆記 KR6q0173 — an anthology of five compositions under the titular opening work.
- Léng-yán jīng jī jié 楞嚴經擊節 (X14 n292) — a commentary on the Śūraṅgama Sūtra.
- Jīn gāng jīng zhèng yǎn 金剛經正眼 (X25 n477) — a commentary on the Diamond Sūtra.
Dàsháo’s intellectual signature is integrative Chán grounded in sustained reading of the Śūraṅgama and Diamond sūtras, situated in late-Míng Chán-doctrinal debates about the relationship between meditation and doctrine.