Late-Míng scholar-official and lay-Buddhist commentator (DILA: 否, “not a monk”), zì Shùnzhēng 舜徵, sobriquet Jīnjiǎn 金簡, native of Lěiyáng 耒陽 (Húnán). Studied first under Wáng Wànshàn 王萬善 (1537–1571), then under Zhào Yuánbiàn 趙元忭. Took the jìnshì degree in Wànlì 11 = 1583; served as Lǐbù lángzhōng 禮部郎中 (Director, Bureau of Rites), participating in the jiànchǔ 建儲 memorial movement (advocating for the heir-apparent designation) alongside Yuè Yuánshēng 岳元聲 and Gù Yǔnchéng 顧允成. Soon retired to private life, devoting himself first to Sòng Cheng-Zhū 宋儒朱陸理學 study and to founding the Jíxián Shūyuàn 集賢書院 academy at Mt. Héng 衡嶽 (Nányuè) — endowed with farmland to support its students, dedicated to four worthies (Hán Yù, Lǐ Mìfēi, Zhōu Dūnyí, et al.). Also helped found the Húnán Huìguǎn 湖南會館 in Beijing. In old age turned wholly to Buddhism, producing under the title-formula Zōngtōng 宗通 (“penetrating the school”) a coordinated set of commentaries: Léngyánjīng zōngtōng (X16 no. 318), Léngqiéjīng zōngtōng (X17 no. 330), Yuánjuéjīng zōngtōng, plus the Jīngāng zōngtōng (KR6c0059, X25 no. 471) and Jīngāng jīng jiēshì (KR6c0060, X25 no. 472) treated here. Took bodhisattva precepts (明菩薩戒弟子). Lived to over eighty suì; precise lifedates unrecorded.
Source: *Sìkù quánshū * — Húguǎng tōngzhì j. 55; DILA A001305.