Lǐ Zhìjiǎn 李贄簡 (1527–1602), more commonly known by the literary name Lǐ Zhuówú 李卓吾 / Li Zhi, the great late-Míng Buddhist-syncretist intellectual and philosopher. (Note: in some Buddhist editorial contexts including [[KR6e0067|Huáyán jīng hé lùn jiǎn yào]] he appears under the variant name 李贄簡 or 李贄, reflecting transmission through Buddhist editorial channels rather than his standard literary signature.) Native of Quánzhōu 泉州 (modern Fújiàn). Originally a Confucian-trained official who served in various Míng prefectures, he turned in his later years to a radical Buddhist-Daoist-syncretic philosophy that rejected the Neo-Confucian orthodoxy and embraced a Buddhist-influenced critique of conventional morality. He took monastic vows late in life at the Lóngtán hú 龍潭湖 area of Húběi.
His major works — Fén shū 焚書 (“Books to be Burnt”) and Cáng shū 藏書 (“Books to be Hidden”) — are the most significant late-Míng intellectual challenges to Neo-Confucian orthodoxy. He took an active interest in the Avataṃsaka and produced the [[KR6e0067|Huáyán jīng hé lùn jiǎn yào 華嚴經合論簡要]] in 4 fascicles (X225) — a heavy abridgement of 志寧 Zhì-níng’s Hé lùn (X223) for lay-Buddhist readers. Imprisoned in 1602 on charges of subverting public morals, he committed suicide in his Beijing prison cell that year.