Míngyī 明一
Late-seventeenth-century Línjì Chán monk, dharma-heir of Zhīyán Xiù 芝巖秀 in the Mìyún → Línyě → Xíngmì → Xiù sub-lineage. Head compiler (děng biān 等編) of KR6q0431 《芝巖秀禪師語錄》 (Jiāxīng Canon J28 B213). The 明-generation character places him at the 35th-generation Línjì tier — one generation below Xiù’s 超 generation.
Native place, lay surname, and lifedates unrecovered. No independent works survive under his name.
Sources: KR6q0431 juan-head signature line “sìfǎ ménrén Míngyī děng biān 嗣法門人明一等編”.
name: 明一 pinyinName: Míngyī / Myōichi alternateNames: [Myōichi] dynasty: 日本 birthDate: 728 deathDate: 798 cbdbId: dilaAuthorityId: created: 2026-05-05 updated: 2026-05-11
Nara-to-early-Heian-era Japanese Hossō 法相 monk. Hōbōgirin TP595 (after Hokke-kō shoshō IV) places him at Tōdai-ji 東大寺 of Nara — the imperial Hossō-Kegon centre — where he is associated with the late-Nara consolidation of the Hossō (East Asian Yogācāra) tradition. His dates are conventionally given as 728–798 in Japanese reference works, though direct primary documentation is sparse and the dates carry some uncertainty.
Two works survive securely under his name in the East Asian canon:
- KR6d0034 Fǎhuá lüèchāo 法華略抄 (T2188) — a brief excerpting commentary on the Lotus Sūtra.
- KR6i0319 Jīnguāngmíng zuìshèngwáng jīng zhùshì 金光明最勝王經註釋 (T2197) — a ten-fascicle annotated commentary on the Suvarṇaprabhāsa-sūtra (Yìjìng recension, T665), compiled mainly from the shū (疏) of the Tang Hossō master Huìzhāo 惠沼 (651–714) with supplementary materials from Shèngzhuāng 勝莊 of Da-jianfu-si and Kyŏnghŭng 憬興 of Silla.
Source: hobotei.xml entry TP595 (MYŌICHI, 明一, 728–798, Tōdai-ji); DILA / CANWWW AUT00986; Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 佛書解説大辭典 (Mochizuki).