Southern-Sòng Tiāntái 天台 master and editor; zì Dáxiān 達先, sobriquet Shízhī 石芝 (also referenced as Shízhī Zōngxiǎo 石芝宗曉, Sìmíng Shízhī 四明石芝). DILA Authority A000487. Born 1151; productive into the early thirteenth century. Affiliated with the Sìmíng (Níngbō) Tiāntái scholastic establishment.
Major editorial work: the Sìmíng zūnzhě jiàoxíng lù 四明尊者教行錄 (KR6d0186, T1937, 7 juan) — the most extensive collection of materials by and about Sìmíng Zhīlǐ 四明知禮 (知禮), including correspondence, doctrinal essays, biographical materials, and stele inscriptions. The work is the principal documentary source for the modern reconstruction of Zhīlǐ’s life and the Northern-Sòng shānjiā tradition’s institutional history.
Other works include various Tiāntái-Pure Land synthesis productions characteristic of late-Sòng Tiāntái scholastic activity.
Note: distinct from the Japanese Tendai monk Zhōngshān Zōngxiǎo 鐘山宗曉 (a separate DILA entry).
Sources: DILA A000487.