Chéng Zhàoluán 程兆鸞
A late-Qīng lay-Buddhist scholar of Hǎilíng 海陵 (= Tàizhōu 泰州, Jiāngsū). Born c. 1828 (per his self-attestation as a liùliù lǎosǒu 六六老叟 — “sixty-six-year-old greybeard” — in his self-preface dated Guāngxù 20 / 1894). Death-year not preserved.
His autobiographical preface to the 《蓮修起信錄》 Liánxiū qǐ xìn lù KR6p0123 (X1204) records that he came from a Hǎilíng literati family active in the Dàoguāng 道光 era. His father served on the staff of two successive Gāoyóu 高郵 prefects (Fàn 范 and Wèi 魏); the family migrated to Gāoyóu in consequence. They suffered displacement in the Xiánfēng 咸豐-era Yuèkòu 粵寇 (Tàipíng 太平) rebellion; the autobiographical material in the work suggests the Pure Land turn followed these traumas.
He is the editor and preserver (lù cún 錄存) of the Liánxiū qǐ xìn lù, a six-juǎn anthology of planchette spirit-writing (fēi luán 飛鸞) materials on Pure Land themes — one of the two principal Pure Land fēi luán anthologies in the Buddhist canonical corpus, parallel to the seventeenth-century Xīfāng quèzhǐ KR6p0110. The work was prefaced for publication by Chén Mùqīng 陳沐清 (1888), Zhāng Jìngguān 張淨觀 (1895), and Chéng himself (1894).