Yǐyù 倚遇
Northern-Sòng Chán master, Yúnménzōng 雲門宗, 大鑑下第 11 世. Dharma-heir of Běichán Zhìxián 北禪智賢. Abbot of Hóngzhōu Fēnníng Fǎchāng chányuàn 洪州分寧法昌禪院, whence his name Fǎchāng Yǐyù. Native of Zhāngzhōu 漳州 (Fújiàn), lay surname Lín 林. 1005 – 1081 (Yuánfēng 4), shìshòu 77.
Ordained young at his home-prefecture Chóngfúsì 崇福寺; took the full precepts and set out on wandering-years. Consulted Fúshān Fǎyuǎn 浮山法遠, Bājiāo Ānzhǔ 芭蕉庵主, Yuántōng 圓通, and others; settled longest at Běichán under Zhìxián, from whom he received dharma-transmission. After a three-year retreat at Xīshān Shuānglǐng 西山雙嶺, accepted the Fǎchāng installation, where he lived with a small community at austere dāogēng 刀耕 subsistence-farming.
His single-juan yǔlù (KR6q0378; X73 n1448) was recorded by his xiǎoshī 宗密 Zōngmì and prefaced in 1105 by Xú Fǔ 徐俯 (son of the Sòng statesman-general Xú Xǐ 徐禧, a personal patron of Yǐyù’s youth). Named dharma-heirs: Tàihé Zhēn ānzhǔ 太和珍庵主, Wǔfēng Mì 五峯密, and others (per Wǔdēng quánshū juan 6).