Hǎiníng 海寧
Mid-seventeenth-century LínjìYángqí Chán monk, dharma-heir of Yǐnyuán Lóngqí 隱元隆琦 (1592–1673) and principal Chinese-side compiler-of-record for Yǐnyuán’s pre-emigration yǔlù. Held sìfǎ ménrén 嗣法門人 status at the Huángbò seat in Fúqīng; named as head compiler in the juan-head signature lines of every juan of KR6q0414 《隱元禪師語錄》 (Jiāxīng Canon J27 B193).
Hǎiníng is the Chinese-side counterpart to the Japan-emigrating figures of the Yǐnyuán cohort: where Mùān Xìngtāo 木菴性瑫 (Mokuan Shōtō, 1611–1684) and Jífēi Rúyī 即非如一 (Sokuhi Nyoitsu) crossed to Japan with their master in 1654, Hǎiníng remained in China to complete the custodial work of the Chinese-language yǔlù, assembling materials from the 1637–1651 Chinese abbacies and cutting the sixteen-juan integrated block between 1652 and 1656 with front-prefaces by Táng Shìjì (1642), Wáng Gǔ (1642), Cài Liánbì (1652), and the final zǒngxù by Tán Zhēnmò (1656-03-14) — the last of which was obtained after Yǐnyuán’s 1654 departure.
The generation-character 海 does not match the standard Línjì Mìyún-line convention (通/道 → 行) nor the Fèiyǐn / Yǐnyuán sub-branch convention (本 for Mùān’s generation) — suggesting Hǎiníng may be (a) a dharma-son of Yǐnyuán in a Huáng-bò-specific local naming-convention, or (b) a regional Fújiàn Chán naming-poem. The name may also be a toponymic hào (Hǎiníng 海寧 is also a place-name in Zhèjiāng, and could be a seat-identifier).
Native place, lay surname, and lifedates unrecovered. No independent yǔlù survives under his name.
Sources: KR6q0414 juan-head signature line “sìfǎ ménrén Hǎiníng biān 嗣法門人海寧編”; Yǐnyuán’s juan 10 xíngshí; the various prefatorial attributions documenting the 1656 integrated cutting.