Shì Fēnggān 釋豐干 (fl. ca. 800?)
The Tiāntái 天台 Chán recluse-monk traditionally associated with the Guóqīng sì 國清寺 community, paired with Hánshān 寒山 釋寒山 and Shídé 拾得 釋拾得 as one of the San-sheng 三聖 (“Three Saints”) of Tāngxìng xiàn 唐興縣 (modern Tiāntái xiàn 天台縣, Zhèjiāng). In the cultic identifications transmitted through the pseudo-Lǘqiū-Yìn preface to the Hánshān shī jí, Fēnggān is identified with Amitābha; in the same preface he is the agent who heals Lǘqiū Yìn’s pre-departure illness and points him toward Hánshān and Shídé.
His extant verse — preserved as appendix to the Hánshān shī jí KR4c0002 — amounts to two short gāthā in pentasyllabic and heptasyllabic form. Like Hánshān himself, his historicity is unverifiable and his dates unknown; the standard frame is that he was a Tiāntái monk active in the late 8th or early 9th century. He was a favorite subject of SòngYuán Chán ink-painting (typically depicted recumbent on a tiger’s back, the tiger being his characteristic attribute).