Zǔqìng 祖慶 (Yúnān Zǔqìng 雲庵祖慶)

Southern-Sòng LínjìYángqí Chán master. Hào Yúnān 雲庵 (“Cloud-Hermitage”). Also Jìngshān Zǔqìng 徑山祖慶 (for his Jìngshān 徑山 abbacy). Lifedates unrecorded; active 1190 to post-1257. Seventeenth-generation Línjì descendant (Dàjiàn xià dì shí qī shì 大鑑下第十七世).

Dharma-heir of Dàhuì Zōnggǎo 大慧宗杲 (1089–1163). Abbacies at Nányuán 南源, Dàolín 道林, Zhōngshān 鍾山, and Wújiāng Shèngshòu 吳江聖壽 (from Bǎoyòu 5 = 1257). Wrote the colophon to the Pǔjué Zōnggǎo chánshī yǔlù in Shàoxī 1 = 1190.

Principal surviving Kanripo-canonical contribution: the Niān bā fāng zhū yù jí 拈八方珠玉集 KR6q0257 — his re-edited three-juan niān gǔ anthology gathering prose-commentaries from across the Chán tradition.

Sources: Jǐngdé chuán dēng lù 景德傳燈錄 juan continuations; T51n2077_p0685b29.