Xiè Yújiào 謝于教
Late-Míng (Wànlì / Tiānqǐ era) lay-Buddhist scholar; sobriquet Gǔqián qīnglián jūshì 古虔青蓮居士 (“Lay-Buddhist of the Ancient Qián and the Blue Lotus” — Gǔqián 古虔 referring to the Qiánzhōu 虔州 of Jiāngxī, modern Gànzhōu 贛州). Lifedates not preserved; floruit late Wànlì – early Tiānqǐ era (c. 1610–1625).
Author of the Zhǔn-tí jìng-yè 準提淨業 (KR6j0750, X59 no. 1077), a three-fascicle lay-Buddhist devotional manual on the Cuṇḍā 準提 dhāraṇī practice integrated with Pure Land jìng-yè 淨業 (“pure karma”) devotion. The work was prefaced and signed by the author with mù-shǒu fén-xiāng shū 沐手焚香書 (“having bathed and burned incense, wrote”) on Tiān-qǐ 3 guǐ-hài 癸亥 mid-autumn = 1623. The work attests Xiè’s interest in late-Wàn-lì Sān-jiào hé-yī 三教合一 syncretism: in the preface he draws explicit parallels between the Cuṇḍā dhāraṇī’s circle-symbol and the Hùn-yuán tú 混元圖 of Zhào Wén-sù 趙文肅公 (Zhào Zhēn-jí 趙貞吉) and the Wàn-zì lún-xiàng tú 卍字輪相圖, both classic Confucian-Daoist-Buddhist syncretic diagrams of the period.