Gǔtíng Shànjiān 古庭善堅 (1414–1493) was a mid-Míng Línjì (Yángqí-branch) Chán master active chiefly in Kūnmíng 昆明 (Yúnnán) and at Fúshān 浮山 (Ānhuī). Native of the southern suburb of Kūnmíng, lay surname Dīng 丁. At seven he asked to leave the household; at ten he entered Wǔhuásì 五華寺 under the monk Zōng 宗上人, who gave him the name Shànxián 善賢. At nineteen he took further vows with Báiyán héshàng 白巖和尚 and was renamed Shànjiān 善堅; Báiyán set him to unremitting sitting practice and the Guānyīn niànfó. In the Xuāndé 5 year gēngxū (1430) he met Wúyǐn héshàng 無隱和尚, who set him on the classic wànfǎ guī yī 萬法歸一 huàtóu; some years on, reading the Yuánjué jīng 圓覺經 passage on the phantom nature of body-and-mind, he had an opening. In Xuāndé 10 (1435) he reached Yōngluóshān 擁蘿山 in Guìzhōu, then went on into Shǔ 蜀 (Sìchuān), where for several years he did not allow his flank to touch the mat; there he attained great awakening. In Zhèngtǒng 10 (1445) he travelled to Jīntái 金臺 (Běijīng) to seek validation from Wújì Míngwù 明悟 無際明悟 (1383–1446); Wújì sealed his realisation, conferred the xìnyī 信衣 and fúzǐ 拂子 of transmission, and bestowed on him the name Gǔtíng 古庭 (“Ancient Courtyard”). During the Tiānshùn era (1457–) he taught at Fúshān 浮山 and drew a large following; his principal disciple there, Yīguàn 一貫, edited the first redaction of his yǔlù in 1457, furnished with a preface by the Nánjīng 禮部尚書 Zhāng Huì 張惠. In his later years he returned to Yúnnán and founded the Guīhuà Chánlín 歸化禪林 at Kūnmíng, whence he is sometimes called Guīhuà Shànjiān. He died on Hóngzhì 6.7.20 wèi-hour (9 September 1493), aged 80. His principal dharma-heir was Dàwéi Jìnglún 大巍淨倫 (1426–1492). His writings include the Shānyún shuǐshí jí 山雲水石集 (the parent collection) and the Gǔtíng zǔshī yǔlù jílüè 古庭祖師語錄輯略 (KR6q0396, a Chóngzhēn-era re-edition). Together with Pánlóng Zǔyuán 盤龍祖源 he is traditionally counted as one of the two revivers of Chán Buddhism in Míng-dynasty Yúnnán.