Péng Jìqīng 彭際清 / Péng Shàoshēng 彭紹升 (1740–1796), styled Èrlín jūshì 二林居士 (“Two-Forests Lay Practitioner”) and Zhīguīzǐ 知歸子 (“Master Knowing-Refuge”), the most important late-Qīng lay Buddhist intellectual. Native of Suzhou. Born to a literati family of the Péng 彭 lineage of Chángzhōu 長洲, he passed the jìnshì 進士 examination in 1765 but turned to Buddhist study and lay practice, eventually becoming the principal lay-Buddhist scholar of late-eighteenth-century China.
His major works include the Jū shì zhuàn 居士傳 (a 56-fascicle compilation of lay-Buddhist biographies), the Niàn fó tǎn 念佛壇 (a Pure Land devotional manual), the Wú liáng shòu jīng qǐ xìn lùn 無量壽經起信論 (a commentary on the Sukhāvatīvyūha), the [[KR6e0148|Huáyán niàn fó sānmèi lùn 華嚴念佛三昧論]] (X1030, Treatise on the Recitation-of-Buddhas Samādhi of the Huáyán), and the [[KR6e0147|Yī chéng jué yí lùn 一乘決疑論]] (X1029, Treatise on Resolving Doubts about the One-Vehicle). His distinctive synthesis combined the Pure Land lay-devotional tradition with the Huáyán-school doctrinal framework, producing a late-Qīng Buddhist syncretism that became the foundation of the early Republican-period Chinese Buddhist revival.
He died in 1796 at age 57.