Early-Táng Buddhist monk, expert in the Tiāntái 天台 and Lǜ 律 (Vinaya) traditions. Native of Xiāng-yáng 襄陽 (modern Húběi). Studied under Zhāng-ān Guàn-dǐng 章安灌頂 (561–632) — the disciple of Zhìyǐ 智顗 and the principal compiler of the Tiāntái corpus. As an authoritative figure of his generation, Hóngjǐng was selected by the Wǔ-Zhōu court as the chief drafter of the Jìn xīnyì Dà-fāng-guǎng-fó huāyán-jīng biǎo 進新譯大方廣佛花嚴經表 KR6v0068 — the formal memorial submitted to Wǔ Zétiān 武則天 in Shèng-lì 2 (699 CE) on the occasion of Śikṣānanda 實叉難陀 completing the new (eighty-fascicle) translation of the Avataṃsaka-sūtra (T10n0279). Distinct from the famous Daoist Táo Hóngjǐng 陶弘景 (456–536) of the Shàngqīng 上清 lineage.