Miàonéng 妙能
A mid-Qīng Pure Land pastoral master (fǎshī 法師) active in the Wēnzhōu / Ruìān region of southeastern Zhèjiāng during the late-Qián-lóng / Jiāqìng era (c. 1750–1820). His teachings and pastoral practice are preserved through his disciple 芳慧 Fānghuì’s anthology 《淨土承恩集》 Jìngtǔ chéngēn jí KR6p0108 (X1189). The anthology’s Xīnkè xù 新刻序 describes him as “naturally pure and substantial, with an innate root of [Pure Land] faith” (shēnglái chúnhòu, xìngēn tiānrán 生來純厚信根天然): even before becoming a monk, he is said to have prostrated to every Buddha-image and reverenced every monastic he met. As a teacher he made a regular pastoral practice of urging both lay and monastic disciples to recite ten niànfó invocations every morning (měichén shíniàn 每晨十念) and to maintain numerical chímíng records (jìshù chímíng 記數持名). Lifedates not preserved.