Jìngtǐng 淨挺 (Liángtíng Jìngtǐng 俍亭淨挺)
Early-Qīng Chán master and prolific Buddhist author. Lay name Xú Jìēn 徐繼恩 (alt. Xú Shìchén 徐世臣, Xú Yìtíng 徐逸亭). Hào Liángtíng 俍亭; also Cíyún Liángtíng Jìngtǐng 慈雲俍亭淨挺 (for the Cíyúnsì 慈雲寺 abbacy), Liángtíng dàorén 俍亭道人. Native of Qiántáng 錢塘 (Hángzhōu). Lifedates 1615/11/24 – 1684/11/1 (Wànlì 43/10/4 – Kāngxī 23/9/24, age 70, per the tomb-inscription in Xī hé wén jí 西河文集 juan 9).
Before Buddhist ordination, Jìngtǐng was a Confucian scholar and Míng-era aspirant to the civil service. Following the 1644 MíngQīng collapse he took refuge in Buddhist practice and became one of the most productive Chán-master authors of the early-Qīng Hángzhōu monastic-publishing community.
Major works surviving in the Kanripo corpus:
- KR6q0471 《雲溪俍亭挺禪師語錄》 18 juan, Jiāxīng Canon J33 B294 — his collected sermons, compiled by fǎsì Zhìzōng 智淙 智琮 děng biān. Bears the Cáodòng / 三宜明盂 lineage-stamp.
- Xué fó kǎo xùn 學佛考訓 KR6q0218 (1670) — ten-juan Chinese Buddhist encyclopedic reference-compilation.
- Yīn fó wèn 因佛問 / Yù lù 遇錄 / similar — his individual doctrinal essays (subsequent catalog entries, KR6q0219 and beyond).
- Front-preface to KR6q0459 《明州天童景德禪寺宏智覺禪師語錄》 (the Qīng-period zhòngbiān of Hóngzhì Zhèngjué) — signed Yìtíng jūshì Xú Jìēn 逸亭居士徐繼恩.
Lineage. Cáo-dòng-school dharma-heir of Sānyí Míngyú 三宜明盂 (1599–1665). Hóng-guāng-court 1645 míngjīng graduate; trained as jūshì 居士 under Sānyí with verification at Yúnménsì; tonsured at age 46 (Chóngzhēn 15 = 1642) after his parents’ deaths. Three abbacies: Cíyún 慈雲 (Hángzhōu), Fànshòu 梵受, Xiǎnshèng 顯聖. Thirty named heirs including Zhìzōng 智淙 (compiler of his yǔlù).
Bibliophilic orientation — per Yán Hàng’s preface to the Xué fó kǎo xùn: yú xué wú bù kuī, zhù shū mǎn jiā 于學無不窺，著書滿家 (“his learning omits no field, his books fill the house”).
Sources: Xī hé wén jí 西河文集 juan 9 (Liángtíng Tǐng chánshī tomb-inscription).