Shēng 昇 (Tiānàn Běnshēng 天岸本昇)
Mid-seventeenth-century Qīng LínjìYángqí Chán master, 32nd-generation Línjì descendant in the Mùchén Dàomǐn 木陳道忞 (1596–1674, hào Shānwēng 山翁) branch of the Mìyún-line. Zì Tiānàn 天岸 (“Heaven-Shore”). Full dharma-name Běnshēng 本昇 — using the 本 generation-character, a parallel-track alternative to the 行 character used by the Mùyún / Línyě / Fúshí sub-branches of the Mìyún line. Lay surname and native place not preserved in the transcribed portions of his yǔlù; the Kanripo source page preserves the prefatorial text only as <img:> calligraphy plates, so the preface that would ordinarily have provided these data is not machine-readable in the present corpus. Lifedates imprecisely recovered: birth c. 1615 (inferred from thirteen years of attendance on Mùchén, c. 1642–1655, to transmission); death after 1665 (latest dated content in the yǔlù is Kāngxī 4 / 1665 Jīnsù bǐngfú).
Served as close attendant (zhíshì xuányá yīshísān zǎi 執侍縣崖一十三載) of Mùchén Dàomǐn for approximately 1642–1655. Received transmission and was dispatched to Shāndōng Qīngzhōu as Mùchén’s chief northern agent. First abbacy at Qīngzhōu Dàjué Chányuàn 青州大覺禪院 (opening sermon Shùnzhì 12.4.1 = 2 May 1655). Second abbacy at Qīngzhōu Fǎqìng Chánsì 青州法慶禪寺 (temple formally renamed by imperial edict Shùnzhì 17.5.9 = 1660-06-16, plaque hung 7.29 = 1660-09-03 — the chìcì 敕賜 edict almost certainly issued in connection with Mùchén’s 1659 Shùnzhì imperial audience). Returned temporarily to the Jiāngnán Mìyún-line home-seat Hǎiyán Jīnsùsì 海鹽金粟寺 for a dated bǐngfú 秉拂 Kāngxī 4 yǐsì 8.1 (= 10 September 1665). Described himself in the 1656 Wénwén 聞聞老師 zàn as “bùxìng běishàng, yèduò Qīngzhōu 不幸北上業墮青州” — “unfortunately northward-bound, karmically dropped at Qīngzhōu” — the self-deprecating Jiāng-nán-exile trope characteristic of the Shāndōng mission.
Work: KR6q0409 《天岸昇禪師語錄》 (20 juan, Jiā-xīng J26 B187 — the largest single yǔlù in the J26 Mìyún-line cluster, compiled by his attendant 元玉 Yuán-yù). Includes an unusual 華嚴頌古 華嚴-sòng-gǔ set (juan 17) on the 53-knowledge-stations of the Huá-yán jīng / Gaṇḍavyūha — reflecting the Huá-yán–Chán synthesis of the Mù-chén line.
Sources: KR6q0409 — especially the opening sermon at Dàjué (j.1), the Fǎqìng imperial-renaming sermon (j.9), the 1656 Wénwén zàn (j.18), and the 1665 Jīnsù bǐngfú (j.13); Wǔdēng quánshū 五燈全書 juan 66.