Pu Ji (651-739), the surname is Feng, he was born in Hedong, Puzhou (now Yongji, Shanxi), and an outstanding Chan master of the Tang Dynasty. he was the disciple of Shengxiu and was awarded the posthumous title of Chan Master Dahui.

　

He studied Confucianism in his early years, and later learned about the "Fahua Sutra", "Vijnaptimatratasiddhi-sastra" and "expository notes on the awakening of faith", etc.and converted to Buddhism. At the age of 38, he studied from Master Luoyang Duanhe to receive full precepts, and later learned from Hongjing. Because he felt that the teachings were too complicated, he went to the Yuquan Temple in Jingzhou to learn Chan taught by Shengxiu and became his Dharma-heir.

　

Later Shenxiu was summoned to the capital of Tang Dynasty by Queen Wu Zetian, and he followed into there. After Shenxiu passed away in the second year of Shenlong (706), Puji became the seventh patriarch and led the Northern Chan School. In the thirteenth year of Xuanzong Kaiyuan (725 years), he lived in Luoyang Jing'ai Temple, where was later renamed Xingtang Temple, and Puji promoted Chan in Chang'an and other places. In the 27th year of Kaiyuan, he passed away in Xingtang Temple at the age of eighty-nine. He was awarded the posthumous title of Chan Master Dahui and was called Huayan Monk and Huayan Venerable.