Juémíng púsà 覺明菩薩

A bodhisattva — full title Juémíng miàoxíng púsà 覺明妙行菩薩 (“Bodhisattva of Awakened-Brilliant Marvellous Conduct”) — said to dwell in the jílè 極樂 (Land of Bliss) and to have manifested in the late-Míng / early-Qīng Sūzhōu region (1643–1647) through planchette spirit-writing (fēiluán 飛鸞 / jīxiān 乩仙), delivering twenty-four sessions of doctrinal-pastoral teachings on Pure Land devotion to a group of eight Sūzhōu Buddhist-Daoist syncretist friends (Wúchéng bā yǒu 吳城八友). The transcript was assembled by his chief disciple 常攝 Chángshè as the 《西方確指》 Xīfāng quèzhǐ KR6p0110 (X1191), first printed in 1669 and authoritatively re-edited by 彭際清 Péng Jìqīng in 1773.

He is not historically attested as a human person; the orthodox Pure Land tradition treats the Xīfāng quèzhǐ as the legitimate dharma-teaching of an actual Pure Land bodhisattva manifesting compassionately through the fēiluán medium, on the analogy of the standard Buddhist yìnghuà 應化 (responsive manifestation) doctrine. His most-quoted verse — yī yuè guāng hán qiān shìjiè, fēnshēn wúliàng zhào qúnmí 一月光含千世界,分身無量照羣迷 (“a single moon’s light embraces a thousand worlds; its boundless divided forms illumine the bewildered host”) — became a touchstone of late-imperial Pure Land devotional poetry.