Wáng Rìxiū 王日休 (d. 1173), styled Lóngshū jūshì 龍舒居士 (“Lay Practitioner of Lóngshū” — Lóngshū 龍舒 / Shūchéng 舒城 in modern Anhui), the senior Southern-Sòng lay Buddhist scholar and the principal lay-Pure-Land scholar of his generation. After passing the jìnshì examination, he resigned from official service to dedicate himself to Pure Land cultivation. His major work is the [[KR6f0064|Lóng shū jìng tǔ wén 龍舒淨土文]] (the Lóngshū Pure Land Text) and a major editorial-redaction of the [[KR6f0064|Dà ā mí tuó jīng 佛說大阿彌陀經]] — a synthetic recension of the four major Chinese versions of the Larger Sukhāvatīvyūha (T0360, T0361, T0362, T0363) into a single composite text intended for lay devotional use. The Dà ā mí tuó jīng became the most widely chanted version of the Sukhāvatīvyūha in late-imperial Chinese Pure Land practice. He died in 1173 at his Lóngshū residence; his death is reported in Pure Land hagiography to have been an auspicious passing (ruì xiāng 瑞相) confirming his rebirth in Sukhāvatī.