Bǎozhì 寶誌 (418–514), the most famous shényìsēng 神異僧 (“wonder-monk”) of Southern-dynasty China and the central figure in the early Liáng-dynasty Buddhist court. Súxìng 俗姓 Zhū 朱 of Jīnlíng 金陵 (Jiànkāng 建康). Ordained at the Dàolínsì 道林寺. He is recorded as having performed numerous prophecies and miracles, including the prediction of the rise of the Liáng dynasty and the ascendency of Liáng Wǔdì 梁武帝, who became his close patron. His biography appears in KR6r0052 Gāosēng zhuàn 高僧傳 fasc. 10 (under Shényì 神異) and in many later collections. Among his recorded consultations is the NánQí shū 南齊書 episode in which the tàixué bóshì 江泌 Jiāng Mì sought from him a divination concerning the fate of the Southern-Qí prince Xiāo Zǐlín 蕭子琳 — Bǎozhì overturned a censer of incense-ash on the ground and pronounced “all gone, nothing remains” 都盡，無所餘, after which the prince was killed in the Jiànwǔ purge.
After his death Bǎozhì was rapidly assimilated to bodhisattva-status; in later Chinese popular Buddhism and Chán literature he is often invoked as the Sānshēng dìngzhōng púsà 三聖定中菩薩 (“Three-Sage Concentration Bodhisattva”) and is one of the conventional protagonists of Mílè 彌勒 (Maitreya) miracle-tales. The Liáng Wǔdì wèn Zhìgōng Chánshī cíbēi dàochǎng chànfǎ 梁武帝問誌公禪師慈悲道場懺法 / Liáng huáng bǎochàn 梁皇寶懺 cycle of penance-rites is traditionally ascribed (pseudepigraphically) to dialogues between Liáng Wǔdì and Bǎozhì.