Jigong

Jigong, known as the Mad Monk or Crazy Ji, is a Chan Buddhist deity worshipped across Chinese religion for helping the poor and the wronged while openly flouting the monastic rules a monk is bound to keep, eating meat and drinking wine while performing miracles and using cunning to expose the corrupt and the cruel. He is the deified form of Daoji, a Buddhist monk ordained at Hangzhou's Lingyin Temple who died around 1209, remembered in his own lifetime and after it as a scandalous but compassionate figure. His cult grew largely through vernacular novels and oral storytelling that carried his exploits far beyond any single temple, and he remains a widely recognized and actively worshipped figure in Chinese popular religion and Buddhist temple culture today, often shown in shrines alongside more conventional Buddhist images despite his own irreverence toward the forms they represent.