Wúyùn 無慍
Late-Yuán / early-Míng Yángqí-branch Línjì Chán master, zì Shùzhōng 恕中, late-life self-style Kōngshì dàorén 空室道人. Dàjiàn-下第 23 世 dharma-heir of 妙道 Zhúyuán Miàodào 竺原妙道 (1257–1345), thus — via Miàodào — in the Héngchuān 橫川 / Rúgǒng line (KR6q0344). Native of Línghǎi 臨海 (Táizhōu), lay surname Chén 陳; mother née Lín 林. Entered the village school at seven; at (nearly) twenty begged his parents’ permission to leave home and was tonsured at Jìngshān under Jìzhào 寂照.
After wandering-years of study — Jìngcí under Língshí 靈石, a year-plus with Yìyuán Líng 一元靈, and return to serve Jìzhào at Zémùliáo 擇木寮 before further travel to Tàibáishān under Dǐdiǎnzàng 砥典藏 — he attained full awakening at Táizhōu Zǐtuòshān Jiànyán chánsì 紫籜山薦嚴禪寺 under Miàodào on the wúzì 無字 huàtóu, when Miàodào shouted at him the instant he opened his mouth. He held two successive abbacies — Xiàngshān Língyán Guǎngfú chánsì 象山靈巖廣福禪寺 and Huángyán Ruìyán Jìngtǔ chánsì 黃巖瑞巖淨土禪寺 — whose records form the two-assembly core of his yǔlù (KR6q0349).
In the summer of Hóngwǔ 7 (1374) a Japanese embassy to the Míng court requested him for a Japanese abbacy; pleading old age (he was sixty-five and ill), he declined. The Hóngwǔ emperor summoned him to Nánjīng, where Quánshì Zōnglè 全室宗泐 (1318–1391) lodged him at his own zhàngshì, and where Sòng Lián 宋濂 wrote the preface to the yǔlù; the emperor then permitted his retirement east. From Hóngwǔ 17 (1384) his dharma-heir 居頂 Yuánjí Jūdǐng looked after him at Cuìshān 翠山 in Níngbō, where he died on the 10th of the 7th month of Hóngwǔ 19 (13 August 1386), shìshòu 78, sēnglà 59, leaving the famously terse four-line parting jì “七十八年無法可說，末後一句露柱饒舌，咄”. He is said to have ordered his ashes to be scattered among the bamboos; Jūdǐng could not bring himself to comply and instead buried the bone-relics on the TángÀo plain 唐嶴之原.
Works besides the yǔlù include Shānān zálù 山菴雜錄 (KR6q0046; X87 n1616), Jìngtǔ shī 淨土詩 (one juan), Chóngniān Xuědòu niāngǔ yībǎi zé 重拈雪竇拈古一百則, and Xùsòng Dàhuì Zhúān sònggǔ yībǎi yīshí zé 續頌大慧竹菴頌古一百一十則. The official xíngyèbēi was composed by Wū Sīdào 烏斯道 of Sìmíng. Dharma-heir of record: 居頂 Yuánjí Jūdǐng (d. 1404), compiler of Zēngjí Xùchuándēnglù 增集續傳燈錄.
(The earlier stub of this note carried the sobriquet “Héngshān” 恆山, which is not attested in DILA or the primary Chinese biographical tradition and has been corrected.)