Monshō 聞證 (Wénzhèng), Japanese Buddhist monk and lecturer of the early Edo period (active 1686, no precise dates recovered). Cross-sectarian in scholarly profile: devotionally a Pure Land (Jōdokyō 浄土教) practitioner with Sukhāvatī as his ultimate aim, while doctrinally adept in both Yogācāra (Hossō 法相) and Mādhyamika (Sanron 三論) — as recorded in the 1686 preface to his Sanron primer by Nyojitsu 如實 of the Kyōto Zendō Kyō-ji 善導教寺 (“with Yogācāra contained in his breast and the Three Treatises rolling on his tongue”: jiān hán wéishí yú xiōng, cì zhuǎn sānlùn yú shéduān 兼涵唯識于胸,次轉三論于舌端).
DILA Buddhist Person Authority A001636.
Works:
- KR6m0030 Sānlùn xuányì yòuméng 三論玄義誘蒙 (T70n2302), 3 fasc., prefaced 1686.
- Lüèshù fǎxiāng yì 略述法相義 (T70n2315), Yogācāra primer (not in KR6m).