Jìyùn 寂蘊 (Xiàoyún Jìyùn 嘯雲寂蘊)
Late-Míng / early-Qīng Cáodòng Chán master, 33rd-generation Cáodòng descendant from Dòngshān (in the Zhàn-ran Yuánchéng sub-line’s 寂-generation). Principal dharma-heir and head compiler of the yǔlù of his master Rùjiù Míngxuě / Ruìbái chánshī 明雪 入就明雪 (1585–1641). Hào Xiàoyún 嘯雲 (“Whistle-Cloud”). Native place, lay surname, and precise lifedates not preserved in the accessible sources; born c. 1600s and active through at least 1649 (the final yǔlù cutting-date of KR6q0410). Receiving transmission at Tiāntāi Hùguósì 天台護國寺 in Chóngzhēn 8 / 1635 autumn, when Ruìbái passed him the seat just before withdrawing due to illness.
Abbacies. (1) Tiāntāi Hùguósì 天台護國寺 (received the seat from Ruìbái 1635 autumn and held it at least through 1641); Xiàoyún re-established the Cáodòng presence at this Fǎ-yǎn-sect ancestral seat under circumstances Ruìbái’s tǎmíng and the 1635 Tiāntāi light-at-the-twin-pagodas narrative commemorate. (2) Shànxiàn Shēnshān 嵊縣深山 (per Xiàoyún’s own 1649 postface: “dīnghài dōng tuìyǐn Shèng zhī Shēnshān 丁亥冬退隱嵊之深山” — “in Dīnghài 丁亥 winter / 1647, I withdrew to Shēnshān in Shànxiàn”), where he completed the integrated cutting of the yǔlù with the support of the local lay-patron network (the 孝廉佩茲吳公 = Wú Pèizī 吳佩茲 xiàolián 孝廉 and others).
Principal editorial contribution. The compilation of the 18-juan integrated KR6q0410 《入就瑞白禪師語錄》 (Jiāxīng Canon J26 B188), cut Jǐchǒu 己丑 (Shùnzhì 6) spring 1649 at Shēnshān. The editorial program replaced an earlier partial nine-juan cutting (1643, with prefaces by Chén Hánhuī, Huáng Duānbó, Zhāng Shíhuà) after the dharma-brother Jiǔmò Jìyīn 久默寂音, who was originally to have done the integrated editing at Biànshān in 1642, died that year (“mèngxiōng gào jì 兄告寂”), leaving Xiàoyún to complete the project alone seven years later. Xiàoyún’s most distinctive editorial decision was to omit the polemical 闢判 Pìpàn (“dispute-adjudication”) juan from the final cutting on ecumenical-reconciliation grounds: “qí zhōng Pìpàn yī juǎn yuán wèi xī fǎmén zhī zhēng, jīn zhēng jì xī … gù shān bù lù 其中闢判一卷原為息法門之諍今諍既息 … 故刪不錄”.
Xiàoyún also authored one of the two xíngzhuàng of Ruìbái preserved in KR6q0410 juan 18 — the more extensive of the two, dated at Biànshān Lónghuá 崇禎 14 (1641) 10.14 = 16 November 1641, seven months after the master’s death. Together with Yú Dàchéng’s tǎmíng and Táng Shìjì’s zhuàn, these form the canonical post-mortem biographical apparatus for Ruìbái.
No independent yǔlù or literary collection survives under Xiàoyún’s name in the Jiāxīng Canon; he is known only through the Ruìbái yǔlù compilation he curated and through his own prefaces, xíngzhuàng, and postface preserved therein.
Sources: KR6q0410 juan 17 tǎmíng (mentions Xiàoyún as one of Ruìbái’s principal heirs); juan 18 xíngzhuàng II (self-authored); juan 18 kèyǔlù bá (self-authored editor’s postface, 1649); Wǔdēng quánshū 五燈全書 juan 63 Cáodòng roster.