Wáng Gēngxīn 王耕心 (late 19th c.)
A late-Qīng lay-Buddhist scholar of Pure Land studies, known almost exclusively for his MóhēĒmítuó jīng zhōnglùn 摩訶阿彌陀經衷論 KR6p0004 (X22n0401), a six-chapter doctrinal supplement to 魏源 Wèi Yuán’s Wúliángshòu jīng huìyì KR6p0001. Lifedates not securely established. The author’s own preface, composed in 同治 6 (1867) and dated by the jǐsì 己巳 cycle, identifies his uncle as Wáng Méishū 王梅叔 (Wáng Měixiū) — characterised in the preface as the principal collator of Wèi Yuán’s recension before its 1858 publication. Wáng Gēngxīn writes as the next-generation continuator of the family’s commitment to Wèi Yuán’s Huìyì, retitling Wèi’s text MóhēĒmítuó jīng 摩訶阿彌陀經 (“Greater Amitābhasūtra”) and adding doctrinal essays on the practice of niànfó 念佛 (recollection of the Buddha), the nature of the Pure Land vows, the meaning of yīxīn bù luàn 一心不亂 (single-minded undistraction), and lay-devotional method. The work is the principal late-Qīng successor to 彭際清 Péng Jìqīng’s Wúliángshòu jīng qǐxìn lùn KR6p0003 in the lay-Buddhist Pure Land lineage.
He is otherwise virtually undocumented in the standard biographical literature; the Buddhist sources treat him as a continuation of Wèi Yuán’s school. The CBC@ database (Dharmadrum, dazangthings.nz) lists no further works under his name.