Mínghé 明河 (1588–1640), late-Míng monk-historian; zì Tàirú 汰如, hào Gāosōng dàozhě 高松道者. Native of Tōngzhōu 通州 (modern Nántōng, Jiāngsū), lay surname Chén 陳. Dharma-heir of Yīyǔ Tōngrùn 一雨通潤 (1565–1624), himself a transmission-disciple of Xuělàng Hóngēn 雪浪洪恩 (the major late-Míng jiǎngjīng exegete) — i.e., Mínghé belongs to the Línjì 楊岐 sub-lineage of the Xuělàng 雪浪 reformed jiǎngjīng school.
He was first abbot of Huá-shān-sì 華山寺 in Wú-yì 吳邑 (Sūzhōu) and subsequently of the imperial Dà-bào’ēn-sì 大報恩寺 in Jiāng-níng (Nán-jīng) — one of the two greatest Míng establishments. His lectures regularly drew over ten thousand listeners. Over the course of thirty years he assembled biographies of c. 400 monks of the Sòng through the Míng — across all schools, “without distinguishing sects” 不分宗派 — into the 《補續高僧傳》 Bǔ-xù gāosēng zhuàn in 26 juan (KR6r0063, X77 no. 1524), the principal supplement to KR6r0054 and KR6r0055 for the post-Sòng period. He also produced commentaries on the Lotus, Śūraṃgama, and Yuán-jué jīng.
Mínghé died at Dàbào’ēnsì in Chóngzhēn 崇禎 13 (1640) at the age of 53. The Bǔxù gāosēng zhuàn was posthumously printed by his disciples, with the colophon-postface (跋) added by his disciple Zìjiōng 自扃 / Dàokāi 道開. Per DILA Buddhist Person Authority A000658.
Works in the Kanripo corpus: KR6r0063 Bǔxù gāosēng zhuàn.