王季常

Wáng Jìcháng, late-Míng lay Buddhist (jūshì 居士) and official of the Gōngbù 工部 (Board of Works). Sponsor and editor of the late-Míng combined-edition (huìběn) project on the Tiāntái Pǔmén corpus undertaken at Jīnlíng 金陵 in Chóngzhēn 崇禎 1–2 (1628–1629); his patronage produced the four combined-edition and auxiliary navigational works (KR6d0050, KR6d0051, KR6d0052, KR6d0053, KR6d0054, KR6d0055) connected with Zhīlǐ’s subcommentaries on the Guānyīn jīng.