Late-Míng lay Buddhist patron and editor of Jiāxīng 嘉興 / Xiùshuǐ 秀水, lay style Xiùshuǐ jūshì 秀水居士, also styled Guǎngbiàn jūshì 廣辯居士. Birth and death dates not preserved; active Wànlì 萬曆 era. A senior of the maternal-clan house of the Hànlín scholar Chén Yìdiǎn 陳懿典 (“余外家尊行”), with at least two sons of the màocái 茂才 rank — including Jūnfù 君復 — also active in lay Buddhist patronage.
A literatus in his youth, he turned in his later years to chán-yuè 禪悅 (Chán-joy). His patronage activity at the Three-Pagoda Bodhisattva Hall 三塔大士殿 in Jiā-xīng included, alongside the Laṅkāvatāra and Śūraṅgama sutras, the 1614 recutting and re-editing (chóng-jí 重輯) of Chén Shí’s Dà-zàng yī-lǎn (KR6s0006, J21 B109). He personally collated and corrected the 1614 recension and added a colophon expressing his own reading of the text. The recut edition then entered the Jiāxīng canon.
His participation places him among the prominent late-Wàn-lì Jiāxīng lay-Buddhist patrons centered on the Léngyánsì Jiāxīng-canon project initiated by Mìcáng Dàokāi 密藏道開 in 1589.
Source: DILA Buddhist Person Authority A037257; preface to Dàzàng yīlǎn (J21 B109) by Chén Yìdiǎn.