Hui-tz’u ［慧次］ (434–490) (PY Huici;  Eji): A priest famed for his mastery of the doctrines of the Establishment of Truth (Ch’eng-shih) and Three Treatises (San-lun) schools in China. Among the teachers of the three schools of the south and seven schools of the north, he was known as one of the three teachers of the south. He lived at Hsieh-ssu temple in Chien-k’ang, the capital of the Liu Sung dynasty (420–479), and won respect from the imperial court. Chih-tsang, Seng-min, and Fa-yün, who were revered as the three great Dharma teachers of the Liang dynasty (502–557), studied under Hui-tz’u.