Yuánchéng 原澂 (Fǎlán Yuánchéng 法瀾原澂)
Mid-late seventeenth-century Línjì Chán master active in Jīngzhōufǔ (Húběi), dharma-heir of Shāwēng Hǎi 沙翁海 (= Jìngtài Hǎi 敬太海), a regional master who had earlier restored four Jīngzhōu abbacies. Fǎhuì 法諱 Yuánchéng 原澂 (full-form), Chéng 澂 (short-form); hào Fǎlán 法瀾 (“Dharma-Wave”). Birth and death dates not preserved in the accessible portions; active 1670s.
Four Jīngzhōu abbacies (1670–1673+). (1) Jīngzhōu Tiānwáng Chánsì 荊州天王禪寺 — first abbacy entered Kāngxī 9 庚戌 2.1 = 21 March 1670. Tiānwángsì is the ancestral seat of the Táng-era master Tiānwáng Dàowù 天王道悟 (727–808). (2) Dāngyáng Dùmén Chánsì 當陽度門禪寺 — the ancient Northern-Chán seat of Shénxiù 神秀 (606?–706). (3) Jīngzhōu Pútíchǎng 荊州菩提場. (4) Jīngzhōu Bàoēn Chánsì 荊州報恩禪寺.
Work: KR6q0439 《法瀾澂禪師語錄》 (2 juan, Jiāxīng Canon J29 B229, compiled by 清杲 Qīnggǎo; front-preface by Wáng Cáidǐng 王才鼎 dated Kāngxī 12 / 1673 lunar 7.16).
Historical significance. Yuánchéng’s 1670s restoration-abbacies at the ancient Tiānwáng and Dùmén seats represent mid-Kāng-xī classical-ancestral-site Chán revival in Húběi, paralleling similar restoration-programs at Nánhuá (cf. KR6q0413), Zhāojué (cf. KR6q0415), and Shíshuāng (cf. KR6q0420).
Sources: KR6q0439 juan 1 Wáng Cáidǐng preface; juan 2 塔記 appendix.