Jìnglún 淨倫 (Dàwēi Jìnglún 大巍淨倫)
Mid-Míng Línjì-lineage Chán master. Hào Xiǎntōng 顯通 (“Manifest-Penetrating”), Dàwēi 大巍 (“Great Heights”); also Wǔtái Jìnglún 五台淨倫 (for his late-career Wǔtáishān connection). Lay surname Kāng 康. Native of Kūnmíng 昆明 (Yúnnán). Lifedates Xuāndé 2 = 1427 (per Dàwēi chánshī zhúshì jí juan 6, “Xíng jiǎo”) to Hóngzhì 5 = 1492 (age 66).
Ordained at 14 (Zhèngtǒng 5 = 1440) at the Tàihuá Wújítài 太華無極泰 monastery in Yúnnán. Received dharma-transmission in Tiānshùn 7 = 1463 from Fúshān Gǔtíng héshàng 浮山古庭和尚 (i.e., Gǔtíng Shànzūn 古庭善堅, 1422–1493 — the founding patriarch of the Yúnnán Chán lineage). Twenty-fourth-generation descendant in the Línjì line.
Major career posts:
- Founding abbot (1465) of Wànfú chánchà 萬福禪剎 at the eastern quarter of Běijīng, during the Chénghuà reign — representing the first major case of a native-Yúnnán Chán master achieving a significant Beijing abbacy.
- Retirement (1478) to his Zhúshì 竹室 (“Bamboo Chamber”) hermitage for meditative-reading residence.
- Pilgrimage to Wǔtáishān 1483.
- Two-year abbacy (1490–1492) of Xiǎntōngsì 顯通寺 on Wǔtáishān.
Surviving work: the Dàwēi chánshī zhúshì jí 大巍禪師竹室集 KR6q0196, originally compiled in 6 juan by his disciples Dàozōng 道宗 and Dàoyì 道義 but surviving only as juan 6 (recovered and edited by Chèyōng Zhōulǐ 徹庸周理 in 1636 as part of his Yúnnán Chán anthology project KR6q0195).
Dharma-heirs recorded in the DILA database include Chèyōng Zhōulǐ’s Yúnnán lineage-ancestor and others.
Sources: Dàwēi chánshī zhúshì jí juan 6 (“Xíng jiǎo”); Jīzúshān zhì 鷄足山志 juan 6; Zǔ dēng 祖燈 juan 89.