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Zhèngxìng 正性

Late-Míng Buddhist monk, self-styled Tóngxī tuìyuàn tóutuó 桐溪退院頭陀 (“retired-abbot ascetic of Tóngxī”); author of the Bōrě jìjué tící preface (No. 552-B) to 大慧 Dàhuì’s Bōrě xīnjīng jìjué (KR6c0171), dated Chóngzhēn 14 (1641), composed “at the East Tiānlóng Side-Chamber of the Pure-Brahma Altar”. Associated with the Sūzhōu Wú-mén Sānfēng-circle Línjì revival.