Late-Wànlì lay Buddhist devotee. Sobriquet Láiyún jūshì 來雲居士 (“Lay Devotee of Coming Cloud”); courtesy name (字) Jìmíng 繼明. Native of Shānyīn 山陰 (in modern Shàoxīng, Zhèjiāng). Lifedates and biographical details unknown — DILA Buddhist Studies Person Authority (A001764) records only that he was a jūshì (lay devotee, not a monk) and the author of the Bōrě xīnjīng zhùjiě (X547 = KR6c0166), self-prefaced in Wànlì 45 (1617). The floruit given here (1610–1620) reflects this single anchor.
He represents the late-Wànlì jūshì-syncretist Buddhist commentary genre, characteristically writing for non-specialist readers and freely incorporating Confucian and Daoist conceptual vocabulary into his Buddhist exposition. His self-preface explicitly aligns the Heart Sūtra’s doctrine with both guī rú 歸儒 (“returning to Confucianism”) and rù dào 入道 (“entering the Daoist Way”), placing him in the broad late-Wànlì sānjiào héyī current alongside (though without the institutional commitments of) Lín Zhàoēn 林兆恩 and Lǐ Zhì.