Yuányù 元玉
Mid-seventeenth-century Chán attendant-recorder (shìzhě jìlù 侍者記錄). Personal attendant of Tiānàn Běnshēng 昇 天岸本昇 during Běnshēng’s Shāndōng Qīngzhōu abbacies and the 1665 Jīnsù return visit; head recorder of KR6q0409 《天岸昇禪師語錄》 (20 juan, Jiāxīng Canon J26 B187).
The name 元玉 does not follow the standard Mìyún-line generation-character conventions (either 通/道 at the 3rd-generation level, or 行/本 at the 4th-generation level), suggesting that Yuányù may not have been a formal dharma-heir of Běnshēng but rather a zhíshì 執事 administrative attendant whose duty was textual-stenographic. No independent yǔlù or literary output survives under his name. Native place, lay surname, and lifedates unrecovered.
Sources: KR6q0409 juan-head signature line “shìzhě Yuányù jìlù 侍者元玉記錄”.