According to the Fo-tsu-kuang-mu, the nun Yuan-chi lived in Ching-chu Ssu and had practiced meditation in a cave at T'ai-jih Mountain. She wrote a book called Yuan-ming-ke (the Sound of Perfect Enlightenment), which was said to be comparable in insight to the Cheng-tao-ke (the Sound of Realizing the Way) by the famous monk Yung-chia [a dharma heir of Huineng].
Yuan-chi and her brother, a monk named Yuan-chueh, had studied with Huineng, the Sixth Patriarch of the Ch'an School. Later, when Yuan-chueh died in Wu-t'ai Mountain, he stood upside down and nobody was able to overturn his dead body.
His sister, Yuan-chi went to Wu-t'ai Mountain, scolded the body, and knocked it down.
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Source: Women in Zen Buddhism
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