Yuán Àng 袁盎
Western Hàn official (d. 148 BCE), zì Sī 絲. Native of Chǔ 楚. Served under Emperor Wén 文帝 and Emperor Jǐng 景帝. Famously responsible for advocating the execution of 晁錯 Cháo Cuò during the Revolt of the Seven Kingdoms (七國之亂, 154 BCE), citing Cháo Cuò’s xiāofān 削藩 (“trimming the feudatories”) policy as the immediate cause of the revolt. Subsequently assassinated by retainers of the Liáng prince Liú Wǔ 劉武 in 148 BCE.
Appears in Chinese Buddhist hagiography as the karmic antagonist in the legend of 知玄 Zhīxuán’s rénmiàn chuāng 人面瘡 (“human-face boil”) — a disease-spirit complaining of grievances dating back ten incarnations to the Yuán Àng / Cháo Cuò affair, the precipitating episode of KR6k0199 Cíbēi shuǐchàn fǎ.
Sources: Shǐjì 史記 j. 101; Hàn shū j. 49.