Zhipan

Also known as Hao Dashi · Dashi Zhipan

Zhipan, sobriquet Dashi, was a Southern Song monk of the Shanjia line of the Tiantai school who lived at Fuquan Monastery in Siming (modern Ningbo) and on Yuebo Hill by the East Lake. According to the preface of his Fozu tongji, he began it in 1258 and finished it in 1269 after more than ten years. Its fifty-four juan borrow the form of the official histories, with annals, hereditary houses, biographies, tables and treatises, and trace the transmission of Buddhism from Sakyamuni to the Song with the Tiantai lineage at its centre. He also wrote a six-juan liturgy for the Water and Land Assembly, on which later performances of that rite drew.