Miàoxié 妙叶 / 妙葉
Early-Míng Tiāntái-affiliated Pure Land monk, native of Sìmíng 四明 (modern Níngbō 寧波, Zhèjiāng), with the dharma-name Jìzhào 寂照 (“Quiescent-Illumination”). His name is variously written 妙叶 or 妙葉 in different recensions of his work. Lifedates not preserved in detail; he was active in the early Míng, and his major surviving work — the 《寶王三昧念佛直指》 Bǎowáng sānmèi niànfó zhízhǐ KR6p0055 (T1974, 2 juǎn) — was composed in the Hóngwǔ 洪武 reign (1368–1398), with a self-preface dated 洪武 22 (1389). He is therefore an early- to mid-Hóngwǔ Pure Land author.
The Zhízhǐ combines Tiāntái doctrinal categories (the four lands, the three contemplations) with the bǎowáng sānmèi 寶王三昧 (“King-of-Jewels samādhi”) tradition descending from the Tiāntái meditative literature, applying both to the analysis of niànfó in twenty-two thematic chapters. It became one of the standard Tiāntái-Pure Land doctrinal handbooks of the late-imperial period and was incorporated into the Míng canon. DILA Authority A001595.