Sēng Fǎ 僧法 (491–505), daughter of the Southern-Qí literatus 江泌 Jiāng Mì of Jǐ-yáng. From age 9 (Yǒng-yuán 永元 1, 499) she began entering trance and “reciting forth” (sòng chū 誦出) Buddhist scriptures, which her family had taken down by attendants. Over six years she produced 21 sūtras in 35 fascicles, including the Bǎo-dǐng jīng 寶頂經, Jìng-tǔ jīng 淨土經, Zhèng-dǐng jīng 正頂經, Fǎ-huá jīng 法華經 (an apocryphal one-fascicle text, not the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka), Yào-cǎo jīng 藥草經, Tài-zǐ jīng 太子經, Jiā-yē-bō jīng 伽耶波經, Bō-luó-nài jīng 波羅奈經, Yōu-lóu-pín jīng 優婁頻經, Yì-yì jīng 益意經, Bō-rě dé jīng 般若得經, Huā-yán yīng-luò jīng 華嚴瓔珞經, Yú-tuó-wèi jīng 踰陀衛經 (recited at age 16 in the imperial palace’s Huá-guāng-diàn 華光殿 in 天監 4 / 505 — i.e., before Liáng Wǔ-dì 梁武帝 himself, indicating her case had reached the throne), Ā-nà-hán jīng 阿那含經, Miào-yīn shīzi-hǒu jīng 妙音師子吼經, Chū-shèng shīzi-hǒu jīng 出乘師子吼經, Shèng-mán jīng 勝鬘經 (homonymous but distinct from the canonical Śrīmālā-sūtra), Yōu-tán jīng 優曇經, Miào-zhuāng-yán jīng 妙莊嚴經, Wéi-mó jīng 維摩經 (homonymous but distinct from the canonical Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa), and Xù qī-shì jīng 序七世經. Refusing marriage, she ordained as a nun (法名 Sēng Fǎ 僧法), residing at Qīng-yuán-sì 青園寺 in Jiànyè 建業, and died in the third month of Tiān-jiān 4 (505) at age 16 (or, as Fāng Guǎngchāng reconstructs from internal chronology, age 15: see KR6v0104).
僧祐 Sēng Yòu in his Chūsānzàng jì jí 出三藏記集 KR6s0084 fasc. 5 records her texts in his “xīnjí yíjīng wěizhuàn zálù” 新集疑經偽撰雜錄 (suspect-and-forged miscellanea), having sought them out personally and obtained only one (Miàoyīn shīzihǒu jīng, 3 fasc.); the rest the Jiāng family kept secret. Two of her titles — Huāyán yīngluò jīng and Bōrě dédào jīng — are also entered without yí status in the recovered Dūnhuáng witness of the Zhòngjīng biélù 眾經別錄 (S.2872 + P.3747), suggesting at least partial canonical reception in some 5th-6th c. quarters. Her case is one of the principal source-cases in the yíwěijīng 疑偽經 critical tradition.