Early-Míng Fú-jiàn 福建 lay Buddhist visionary (DILA A000904 marks him non-monk, 否). Native place and life-dates unrecorded; “Xià” 夏 may be a surname or a monastic-style sobriquet. By trade a weaver (yè zhī 業織); the 1652 preface by Xiàng Qiān 項謙 narrates that Xià, troubled by nightly fears at the loom, was visited in dreams by an old monk who taught him the Cuṇḍā (Zhǔn-tí 准提) dhāraṇī and a repentance liturgy; one day a shuttle fell from his hand and returned by itself; protector deities then manifested before him and instructed him to “suspend a mirror, pray earnestly, summon a painter, who in sequence drew the protector figures from within the mirror.” The visionary liturgy and protector-images thus produced were transmitted via Yǐn-kōng héshàng 隱空和尚 of Guǎng-jì sì 廣濟寺 (Fú-zhōu) to the Xiàng family of Jiā-hé 嘉禾 and, in their printed re-issue of 1652/1657, became the work known as KR6j0760 Zhǔn-tí fén-xiū xī-dì chàn-huǐ xuán-wén 准提焚修悉地懺悔玄文. After his death by meditative composure (zuò-tuō 坐脫) Xià’s preserved body was venerated at Fú-zhōu.
The Xùzàngjīng catalog assigns the work to Qīng (the dynasty of the printed recension); DILA places Xià in the Míng (the dynasty of his life), followed here.
Source: DILA Buddhist Studies Person Authority A000904; Zhǔntí fénxiū xīdì chànhuǐ xuánwén X74n1482 prefaces (1482-A by Xiàng Qiān, 1652).