Hóngbì 弘璧 (1599 – 18 January 1670), late-Míng / early-Qīng Línjì 楊岐 Chán master; hào Pōushí 剖石 (“Cleaving the Stone”), also Wànfēng Pōushí 萬峰剖石 and Xuánmù Pōushí 玄墓剖石. Native of Wúxī 無錫 (modern Wúxī, Jiāngsū), lay surname Zhèng 鄭. Dharma-heir of the great late-Míng Línjì master Sānfēng Fǎzàng 三峯法藏 (1574–1635) — the principal Línjì revival-figure of the late Míng (not the Tang Huáyán patriarch 法藏 of the same name).
Hóngbì took ordination at age 12 at Pǔjìsì 普濟寺 in Wúxī. At 22 he met Sānfēng Fǎzàng and underwent intense Chán practice, achieving awakening after a sustained engagement with the huàtóu “ten-thousand dharmas return to one” (wànfǎ guī yī 萬法歸一). After full ordination he travelled to Bóshān (Boshan), Huángbò 黃檗, Kuānglú 匡盧 (Lúshān), and the LiǎngZhè region. In Tiānqǐ 天啟 dīngmǎo (1627) on New Year’s Day he attained a deeper insight into the school’s gāngzōng 綱宗 schema. After Sānfēng’s death in 1635 he received the dharma-transmission and was installed as abbot of Tiānshòu Shèngēnsì 天壽聖恩寺 on Dèngwèishān 鄧尉山 in Sūzhōu — the celebrated xuánmù 玄墓 plum-blossom mountain, hence his sobriquet Xuánmù Pōushí. He died at Shèngēnsì in Kāngxī 康熙 8 / 12 / 27 (= 18 January 1670) at age 72, after 56 years as a monk.
His dharma-heirs included Jù-yě Jiào-dé 巨冶教德, Wèi-zōng Hǒu-yá 為宗吼崖, and Shí-yuè Háng-hán 石月航函. Among his canonical works is the 《華嚴感應緣起傳》 Huá-yán gǎn-yìng yuán-qǐ zhuàn (KR6r0088, X77 no. 1533), a 1-juan compendium of Avataṃsaka-cult miracle-narratives. Per DILA Buddhist Person Authority A000242.
Works in the Kanripo corpus: KR6r0088 Huáyán gǎnyìng yuánqǐ zhuàn.