Rú Niàn 如念
Early-Qīng monk active at Pǔmíng-sì 普明寺. Compiler of the Shí niú tú hé sòng KR6q0161, which he finalised and printed in the seventh month of Kāngxī 1 (1662) while sojourning at the Bōrě-táng 般若堂 (Prajñā Hall). His own postface identifies him by the full monastic name Rú Niàn-kōng 如念空 and by the self-deprecating lay-monastic sobriquet Bǒ dàorén 跛道人 (“Lame Man of the Way”), under which name he contributes one of the fifteen harmonizing-verse sets in the compilation.
Rú Niàn’s postface narrates the compilation’s occasion: Xīnchǒu 辛丑 winter (1661) he came to administer the parish (lǐfāng 理坊) affairs at Pǔmíngsì; the following summer (rényín 壬寅 = 1662), the lay patron Yán Dàcān 嚴大參 brought him the Pǔmíng karmic-origin records and old temple pictures; Rú Niàn then collected circulating harmonizing verses from various quarters, composed his own to match, and published the whole as a single volume. No independent biographical information is preserved.