Wáng Rìxiū 王日休 (d. 1173), styled Lóngshū jūshì 龍舒居士 (“Lay Practitioner of Lóngshū” — Lóngshū 龍舒 / Shūchéng 舒城 in modern Anhui), the senior Southern-Sòng lay Buddhist scholar and the principal lay-Pure-Land scholar of his generation. After passing the jìnshì examination, he resigned from official service to dedicate himself to Pure Land cultivation. His major work is the Lóng shū jìng tǔ wén 龍舒淨土文 (the Lóngshū Pure Land Text) and a major editorial-redaction of the Dà ā mí tuó jīng 佛說大阿彌陀經 — a synthetic recension of the four major Chinese versions of the Larger Sukhāvatīvyūha (T0360, T0361, T0362, T0363) into a single composite text intended for lay devotional use. The Dà ā mí tuó jīng became the most widely chanted version of the Sukhāvatīvyūha in late-imperial Chinese Pure Land practice. He died in 1173 at his Lóngshū residence; his death is reported in Pure Land hagiography to have been an auspicious passing (ruì xiāng 瑞相) confirming his rebirth in Sukhāvatī.