Dàopèi 道霈
Late-Míng / high-Qīng Cáodòng 曹洞 Chán master, zì Wèilín 為霖, self-style Fēijiāsǒu 非家叟 / Lǚbó 旅泊. Principal dharma-heir of 元賢 Yǒngjué Yuánxián (1578–1657) in the Shòuchāng Cáodòng revival; successor to the Gǔshān Yǒngquán chánsì 鼓山湧泉禪寺 seat. Native of Jiànān 建安 (Jiànníng, Fújiàn), lay surname Dīng 丁. 21 December 1615 – 27 October 1702 (lunar 萬曆 43.11.2 – 康熙 41.9.7), shìshòu 88.
Left home at fourteen at Dōngbáiyúnsì 東白雲寺 of Jiànōu; at eighteen set out on his wandering years. Heard that Gǔlǎorén 古老人 (Yǒngjué Yuánxián) had come from Chǔ to Mǐn and was living at Bǎoshànān 寶善庵; went there to study. Later returned to Gǔshān under Yuánxián as wéinà 維那; contemplated the 庭前柏樹子 huàtóu for three years without breakthrough, then left for Liǎngzhè for further cānxué, also studying under Tiāntóng Mìyún Yuánwù 密雲圓悟 (1567–1642) of the Línjì line. Returning again to Gǔshān he resumed the wéinà role; one day, in an exchange with Yuánxián who “shouted him out,” he went through a sleepless night and at the fourth watch, rolling up the curtain and stepping outside, attained “sudden great thoroughness” (hūrán dàchè 忽然大徹). At eighty Yuánxián entrusted him with the dharma; he succeeded to the Gǔshān seat and lived out his own twenty-plus year abbacy there, turning Gǔshān into “the great dharma-cave of South-East China” per the later gazetteer. Retired for some years at Bǎizhàngshān 百丈山 to practice Pure-Land.
Principal editorial achievement: the chóngbiān 重編 of his master’s 30-juan guǎnglù (KR6q0367; X72 n1437) in the three years after Yuánxián’s death in 1657. His own yǔlù survives as the 16-juan Wèilín Dàopèi chánshī yǔlù 為霖道霈禪師語錄 (and multiple separately-transmitted works: the 24-juan Huáyánjīng shūlùn zuǎnyào 華嚴經疏論纂要, the Lǚbóān gǎo 旅泊庵稿, the Gǔshān lù 鼓山錄, etc.). Sole named dharma-heir: Dàxīn 大心 (DILA A020915). He is, with Yuánxián, the principal representative of early-Qīng Cáodòng orthodoxy in South-East China.