Wáng Zōngchuán 王宗傳 (lifedates not securely recorded; fl. 1181–1206), zì Jǐngmèng 景孟, hào Tóngxī 童溪, of Níngdé 寧德 in Fújiàn (modern Níngdé prefecture, eastern Fújiàn). CBDB id 37678; lifedates not recorded.
Jìnshì of Chúnxī 8 (1181, xīnchǒu year) — the same year as his lifelong friend Lín Tūn 林焞 (zì Bǐngshū 炳叔) of Níngdé. Three years later, in 1184, became jiàoshòu 教授 (Educational Officer) at Qūjiāng 曲江 / Sháozhōu 韶州 (modern Shaoguan, Guangdong). Per Lín Tūn’s preface (composed at Lín Tūn’s Qúzhōu Kāihuàxiàn magistracy, c. 1205): a heavy drinker who after each cup discussed the Yì; claimed descent from the SuíTáng Wénzhōngzǐ 文中子 Wáng Tōng 王通 (584–617). Famous saying: xìng běn wú shuō, shèngrén běn wú yán 性本無説，聖人本無言 (“Nature is originally without speech; the sage was originally without words”).
Within the Kanripo corpus he is the author of KR1a0047 Tóngxī Yì zhuàn 童溪易傳 — a 30-juan xīnxué (mind-doctrine) reading of the Yì composed 1184–1186, paired by the Sìkù editors with Yáng Jiǎn’s Cíhú Yì zhuàn (KR1a0037) as the joint Sòng founder of the xīnxué Yì hermeneutic line. Both works were preserved by the Sìkù editors as documentary records of the methodological branching that produced the late-Míng YìChán synthesis.
He doctrinally bypasses the LiángMèng xiàngshù tradition and grounds his Yì-reading in Wáng Bì’s yuánxū 元虚 (“originary-emptiness”) line. The Sìkù tiyao judges his work as “not free of admixture from alien learning” (bù miǎn shè yú yì xué 不免涉於異學), i.e. Chán-Buddhist mind-doctrine.