Shěn Shìróng 沈士榮
Early-Míng lay Buddhist and civil official. Native of Jiàn’ān 建安 (modern Jiànníng 建寧 in Fújiàn). Lifedates unrecorded; active during the Hóngwǔ 洪武 reign (1368–1398). Served as hànlín yuàn dàizhào 翰林院待詔 (“Hànlín Academy Academician-in-Waiting”) in the early Míng civil bureaucracy.
Author of the Xù yuán jiào lùn 續原教論 KR6q0181, a two-juan Buddhist apologetic treatise prefaced in Hóngwǔ 18 (1385), containing 28 numbered pieces answering Táng-Sòng-Yuán-period Confucian objections to Buddhism. The title’s Xù 續 (“continued”) signals continuity with Qi-sōng’s 契嵩 (1007–1072) Northern-Sòng Yuán jiào lùn 原教論. Shěn’s position within the Hànlín Academy gave his apologetic an unusual insider-official dimension, reflecting the early Míng’s negotiated accommodation of Buddhism within the new Confucian-state order.
Sources: Xù dēng cún gǎo 續燈存稿 juan 12; Xù yuán jiào lùn KR6q0181 juan 1.