Mid-Míng monk-philologist of Língtángsì 凌堂寺 on Shèngmǔ Mountain 聖母山, in Zhúshānxiàn 竹山縣, Yúnyángfǔ 鄖陽府 (modern northwestern Húběi). Sobriquet Sōngyuè 嵩嶽 (also written Sōngdàyuè 嵩大嶽 in early honorifics). Lay surname, native place, and lifedates not preserved (active Jiājìng 嘉靖 era, fl. ca. 1520–1545).
His one known work is the two-juan Běi-jīng wǔ dà bù zhí-yīn huì-yùn 北京五大部直音會韻 (KR6s0017, JB048) — a phonological-collation register of textual variants between the Northern (Yǒnglè) capital canon and the Southern (Yǒnglè) capital canon printings of the Five Great Sutras (Avataṃsaka, Lotus, Prajñāpāramitā, Śūraṅgama, Mahāparinirvāṇa) and associated penitential texts. The work was originally compiled in the early-to-mid Jiā-jìng era and given its first cutting in Jiā-jìng 22 = 1543 under the eunuch-supervisor patronage of Lǐ Jīng 李經 of the Imperial Treasury Section (preface by Lǐ Jīng dated 3rd month of 1543). It was recut for the Jiāxīng canon at the Léng-yán-bō-rě-táng project in Wàn-lì 33 = 1605 under the patronage of Féng Mèng-zhēn 馮夢禎 (1548–1605, lay style Zhēn-shí jū-shì 真實居士).
The work is a primary witness to the Míng canonical-printing collation problem that resulted from simultaneous independent imperial canon-printings at the Northern and Southern capitals.
Source: DILA Buddhist Person Authority A022511; auto-preface and Lǐ Jīng’s 1543 preface to Běijīng wǔ dà bù zhíyīn huìyùn (JB048); Féng Mèngzhēn’s 1605 recutting preface.