Shàolóng 紹隆
Yángqí-branch Línjì Chán master of the Northern / Southern Sòng transition, conventionally styled Hǔqiū Shàolóng 虎丘紹隆 after his final abbacy at Hǔqiū shān 虎丘山 in Píngjiāng fǔ 平江府 (Sūzhōu). Nickname Kēshuì hǔ 瞌睡虎 (“drowsy tiger”). Native of Hánshān 含山 county in Hézhōu 和州 (present-day Ānhuī), lay surname Wāng 汪. Lifedates per his own pagoda inscription (preserved in the Hǔqiū Shàolóng chánshī yǔlù X69 n1358): 1077 – Shàoxīng 6.5.8 (16 June 1136), shì 60, xià 45.
Left home at nine for the Fóhuì yuàn 佛慧院 in his home county; tonsured and fully ordained in his teens. Travelled to study with Chánglú Jìngzhào 長蘆淨照, Bǎofēng Zhàntáng 寶峯湛堂 (Wénzhǔn 文準), and Sǐxīn Wùxīn 死心悟新 at Huánglóng; finally reached 克勤 Yuánwù Kèqín at Jiāshān 夾山, under whom he attained transmission and served for twenty years. Taught at Kāishèng sì 開聖寺 in Chéngxī (west of Chéngdū). After the Jiànyán 建炎 turmoil he withdrew southward across the Yangzi to Xuānchéng 宣城, where supporters built him a hermitage at Tóngfēng 銅峯; installed as abbot at Zhāngjiào 彰教 at the instance of the local prefect Lǐ Guāng 李光; moved to Hǔqiū after four years.
Compiled (biān 編), together with Xūrán 虗然 and other disciples, the twenty-juan Yuánwù Fóguǒ chánshī yǔlù (KR6q0059), the standard recorded-sayings collection of his teacher Kèqín. His own one-juan recorded sayings circulate as Hǔqiū Shàolóng chánshī yǔlù. Principal dharma-heir Yìng’ān Tánhuá 應庵曇華; through him and then Mìān Xiánjié 密庵咸傑 the line descends to Xūtáng Zhìyú 虛堂智愚 (1185–1269), whose Japanese heir Nānpo Jōmyō 南浦紹明 founded the Ōtōkan 応燈関 line of Japanese Rinzai — the de facto main transmission of koan Zen in Japan. Sixty-plus named dharma-heirs in all.