Shandao （613-681）. The third of the five Pure Land 净土 masters and the fifth of the seven patriarchs in the tradition of the True Pure Land sect. He entered the priesthood when young， and practiced meditation on Amita^bha and his Pure Land. When he heard of Daochuo 道绰， Shandao went to see him and received the Pure Land teaching from him. The rest of his life was dedicated to the practice and dissemination of this teaching. He is said to have copied the Amita^bha-su^tra more than 100，000 times and made more than 300 paintings of the Pure Land. Besides chanting sutras and reciting the nianfo 念佛 constantly， he successfully performed meditation in which he visualized Amita^bha and his land. He wrote five works in nine fascicles， including commentaries on different sections of the Guan wuliangshou jing 观无量寿经 （'The Sutra of Meditation on the Buddha of Infinite Life '）. He was popularly known as The 'master of the Kuang ming ssu' 光明寺和尚， The 'Great Master of Zhongnan' 终南大师， etc.