Jiàn 鑑 (Bīnyǎ Jiàn 斌雅鑑)
Mid-late seventeenth-century LínjìYángqí Chán master, 33rd-generation Línjì (per the tǎmíng of his teacher Yúné Xǐ). Fǎhuì 法諱 Jiàn 鑑, hào Bīnyǎ 斌雅 (“Elegant-Refined”). Lay surname Zhāng 章 (not 張), native of XīShǔ Tóngchuān 西蜀潼川 (Sichuan, modern Sāntái 三台 district). Birth c. 1615–25; death not precisely known, likely c. 1685 or later.
Lineage. Mìyún Yuánwù 密雲圓悟 → Línyě Tōngqí 通奇 → Yúné Xǐ 雲峨喜 → Bīnyǎ Jiàn. Double-training under Wànrú Tōngwēi 萬如通微 at Yǔmén 禹門 (initial awakening) and Yúné Xǐ at Fēngxuésì 風穴寺 in Rǔzhōu (ten-year extended training and formal transmission). 丁酉 new autumn (= 1657 autumn) formally sealed by Yúné Xǐ as Fēngxué twelfth-ranked dharma-heir — the central event of the Fēngxué Chán succession.
Abbacy-mission (1657–c. 1685). Entered first abbacy at Xīchuānxiàn Zuówéshān Fǎhǎisì 淅川縣岝峉山法海寺 in Hénán on Shùnzhì 14.10.15 (= 18 November 1657); kāitáng 1658 lunar 4.8. Subsequent abbacies extended Yúné’s Hénán Fēngxué mission into Gānsù / Níngxià — to the extreme-northwest frontier of Qīng territory (“six thousand lǐ from Western Xià 不遠六千里來自西夏” per the 1685 Wáng Xīnmìng preface): Níngxià under fǔyuàn 撫院 Liúgōng 劉公; Hànnán 漢南 (Shǎnxī); Jīnchéng 金城 (= Lánzhōu); and eventually eastward return-travels to Jiāngnán by 1685.
Historical significance. Bīnyǎ extends the Mìyún-line northwest-mission into Gānsù / Níngxià — one of the most remote Qīng-era Chán mission-territories. His four high civil-military preface-writers (zǒngdū of Jiāngnán, tídū of Shǎnxī, tídū of Shāndōng) reflect a strongly governmental-patronage profile distinct from the lay-literatus or dharma-brother networks that characterize most J26–J28 Chán figures.
Work: KR6q0423 《斌雅禪師語錄》 (2 juan, Jiāxīng Canon J28 B204, compiled by shìzhě 海岳 Hǎiyuè; four prefaces 1667–1685).
Sources: KR6q0423 juan 1 prefaces by Wáng Xīnmìng 王新命 (1685-06-22), Bó Yǒngfù 柏永馥 (1667-11), Hé Fù 何傅 (1680-summer), and Xú Zuòbǐng 徐祚炳 (undated). The central biographical narrative is embedded in the Hé Fù (1680) preface; Bīnyǎ’s own xíngshí does not survive in the 2-juan recension. Wǔdēng quánshū 五燈全書 juan 69 may preserve additional biographical material.
A separate Sì-chuān-born LínjìYángqí monk also named Jiàn 鑑, zì Línwǒ 林我 (“Forest-Self”); also called Hǎibǎo Jiàn 海寶鑑 (DILA A016352). Born 明萬曆壬子 4/8 子時 = 1612-05-08; died 康熙十八年 2/6 未時 = 1679-03-17, age 68, sēnglà 48. Native of Chuānběi Lángzhōu 川北閬州, lay surname Hóu 侯. LínjìYángqí dharma-heir of Yìān Yìnshī 易菴印師.
Tonsured at 12 at Wànyuánsì 萬緣寺 under Dàcí 大慈和尚. Pursued five years of Tiāntái lectures on the Fǎhuá jīng in Chéngdū before fully ordaining at Dàsuísì 大隋寺 under Bǎochí 寶池. 崇禎十七年 = 1644, the Sìchuān civil war forced him to flee to Shǎnxī; spent over a decade in mountain seclusion in Nánān Guìqīng 南安貴清 and Tiānshuǐ Qīngliáng 天水清涼. Met Fēngxué Yúné 風穴雲峨 at Chángān Dàxìngshànsì 長安大興善寺 in 戊申 = 1668. Received final fùfǎ under his teacher Yìān in 己酉春 = 1669. Held five abbacies in Guānzhōng / Níngxià: Zuóé Fǎhǎi 岝峉法海, Wéntǎ Tiěfó 文塔鐵佛 (Jīngyáng), Chángān Xīngshàn 長安興善, Níngxià Hǎibǎotǎsì 寧夏海寶塔寺 (the source of his sobriquet), and Fèngxiáng Qīngliáng 鳳翔清涼.
Four major fǎsì: Yúcān Hǎijīn 愚參海金 (Shífāng), Xuělín Hǎicí 雪林海茲 海茲 (Shuòfāng = Níngxià), Níngguāng Hǎirùn 寧光海潤 (Xīxià), Qiūshàn Xínglín 秋善行臨 (Qínzhōng).
Work: KR6q0541 《林我禪師語錄》 4 juan, J38 B422, compiled by fǎsì 海錱 (variant of Hǎijīn) and 海茲 děng biānlù, printed at Jiāxīng Léngyánsì 嘉興楞嚴寺 in 康熙辛未歲臘月 = 1692-01.
Sources: 《林我禪師語錄》 vol. 3 〈聯芳偈〉, vol. 4 〈林我禪師塔銘〉, 〈林我禪師行實〉; 《五燈全書》 vol. 89.