Shí Chéngjīn 石成金 (1659 – ca. 1740), zì Tiānjī 天基, hào Xǐngzhāi 惺齋 and Liángjué jūshì 良覺居士 (“Awakened-Good Lay-Practitioner”), alternate hào Xǐngān yúrén 醒庵愚人. Qing-dynasty literatus and lay Buddhist; native of Yángzhōu 揚州府. Layman (jūshì), not monk.
Born in a prominent Yángzhōu family in Shùnzhì 16 (1659), Shí Chéngjīn received a classical Confucian education and made his career as a teacher-author rather than as an office-holder. He lived into the early Qiánlóng period, dying in his eighties; the precise death date is not recorded but is conventionally placed in the mid-1740s.
Shí Chéngjīn’s authorial corpus is unusually substantial for a lay Buddhist, and notably extra-monastic in register. His magnum opus is the multi-volume Chuán jiā bǎo quán jí 傳家寶全集 (“Complete Family-Heirloom Treasure”), a pedagogical-moral anthology covering Confucian ethics, practical advice, medical-health literature, anti-superstition polemic, and Buddhist practice-instruction. Individual sections of this corpus circulate independently; the Buddhist-practice section Chánzōng zhí zhǐ 禪宗直指 (KR6q0149, X63 n1258) is preserved in the Xù zàng jīng.
Other works include the Jīn’gāng jīng shí zhù 金剛經石注 (X25 n497) — a simple-language lay commentary on the Diamond Sūtra.
Works in the Kanripo corpus: KR6q0149 Chánzōng zhí zhǐ only.
The Kanripo catalog assigns him to the 明 dynasty, but this is clearly an error: Shí Chéngjīn was born in 1659 in the Qīng, during the Shùnzhì reign — he is firmly a Qīng figure.
Per DILA A000310: birth Shùnzhì 16 (1659); death year unrecorded (early Qiánlóng, i.e., 1736–). Native of Yángzhōu fǔ. Lay status (not monk).