Ní Liànghǎi 尼量海
A Qīng-era Buddhist nun (bǐ-qiū-ní 比丘尼), dharma-name Liàng-hǎi 量海 (“Measuring-the-Sea”), self-designated Pú-sà bǐ-qiū-ní 菩薩比丘尼 (“Bodhisattva-Bhikṣuṇī”). She is the author of the 《影響集》 Yǐng-xiǎng jí KR6p0127 (X1209) — one of the very small number of canonical Pure Land texts by a Qīng-era female monastic. The work consists of Jìng-tǔ shī 淨土詩 Pure Land poems plus a long Jǐng zhòng yǔ 警眾語 prose admonition specifically directed at her fellow nuns. The latter section is striking for its forthright critique of the institutional inequities affecting the female monastic saṅgha (the absence among nunneries of the assembly-hall regulations, Chán-meditation halls, and instructional structures available in the male monastic establishment) and for its forceful exhortation to female monastics to claim parity with the male saṅgha on the Huá-yán iconographic warrant of the Shī-zǐ-bǐ-qiū-ní 師子比丘尼 (the “Lion-Bhikṣuṇī” of the Huá-yán fifty-three shàn zhī-shi) and on the Lóng-nǚ 龍女 (Dragon-Princess of the Fǎ-huá 法華) precedent. Lifedates and native place not preserved.