Zhēn Yìyuàn 真益願
A mid-Qīng lay Pure Land practitioner, principally remembered as compiler (zuǎnshù 纂述) of the short Pure Land exhortative tract 《勸修淨土切要》 Quàn xiū jìngtǔ qièyào KR6p0105 (X1186). He self-designates as Jìngyè xíngrén 淨業行人 (“a practitioner of pure karma”), the standard lay-pious self-designation. According to the Xiánfēng yǐmǎo 咸豐乙卯 (1855) preface by his cousin Pān Zēngyíng 潘曾瑩 (1808–1878) of the Sūzhōu Pān 潘 lineage, his lay sobriquet was Gēngtáng 耕塘 (“Plough-Pond”). The work was already in circulation by 1855, when Pān reprinted it; a further reprinting (chóngkè 重刻) followed in Xiánfēng xīnyǒu 咸豐辛酉 (1861). Original lifedates not preserved.
The connection to the prominent Sūzhōu Pān lineage — Pān Zēngyíng was a senior official and brother of the celebrated bibliophile Pān Zǔyīn 潘祖蔭 (1830–1890) — situates Zhēn Yìyuàn within the high-status mid-nineteenth-century literati Pure Land tradition.