Zǔmíng 祖銘
Yuán Yángqí-branch Línjì Chán master, zì Gǔdǐng 古鼎, hào Pǔwēng 朴翁; imperial title Huìxìng Wénmǐn Hóngjué Pǔjì chánshī 慧性文敏宏覺普濟禪師, conferred in Zhìzhèng 7 (1347) with his appointment as 49th abbot of Jìngshān — succeeding his master 行端 Yuánsǒu Xíngduān (whose abbacy had been long held by a caretaker after his death in 1341). Native of Fènghuàzhōu 奉化州 (Míngzhōu), lay surname Yīng 應. Born 1280; died on the 22nd of the 1st month of Zhìzhèng 18 (10 March 1358), shìshòu 79, sēnglà 55.
Left home at eighteen under Jīné Héngshān Xī 金峨橫山錫 at Jīnésì 金峨寺; took full precepts at twenty-five. Wandered widely, first serving Zhúxī Tǎn 竺西坦 as jìshì 記室; met Xíngduān at Língyǐn and was his dharma-heir. From Yuántǒng 1 (1333), at fifty-four, held his first abbacy at Chāngguó Lóngjiào 隆教; thereafter Bǎotuó (Pǔtuó) 普陀, Zhōngtiānzhú 中天竺, and — on imperial edict in Zhìzhèng 7 (1347) — Jìngshān. In Zhìzhèng 17 (1357) Chéngxiàng Dáshí Tièmùěr 達識帖木爾 invited him into residence at Yúnjūān 雲居庵.
Co-editor of Xíngduān’s yǔlù (KR6q0352). His own Sìhuì yǔlù 四會語錄 and Gǔdǐng wàijí 古鼎外集 (one juan) are mentioned in his biographies but survive only in fragments. Named dharma-heirs include Xiàngyuán Rénshū 象原仁淑, Tiānyuān Qīngjùn 天淵清濬, Báiān Wànjīn 白庵萬金, Běnkōng Tánxiàng 本空曇相, and Zéyuán Huì 澤原慧.