Língshù 靈述 — late-Ming Tiāntái 天台 monk, disciple of Yīsōng dàshī 一松大師 (一松, DILA A000019; lifedates and biographical details otherwise unrecorded; not to be confused with the contemporary Tiāntái patriarch Bǎisōng Zhēnjué 百松真覺, 1537–1589). Lifedates unrecorded. The DILA Person Authority (A001982) classes him as Qing 清, but the colophon of his record locates him in the late-Ming Yīsōng circle, so the productive period must be Wànlì (1573–1620) or shortly after.
His sole transmitted work is the Lèngyán-jīng mì-lù 楞嚴經秘錄 in 10 fascicles (KR6j0691, X13 no. 283), a written-down record (jì 記) of his teacher Yī-sōng’s oral lectures (shuō 說) on the Śūraṃgama-sūtra. The colophon to KR6j0691 self-identifies him as Yǔ-xī mén-rén Língshù 語谿門人靈述 (“Disciple from Yǔ-xī, Língshù”), placing him in the Yǔ-xī area (modern-day Yixing 宜興 in Jiangsu, on the western shore of Tài-hú 太湖), or possibly Yúháng 餘杭 area in Zhejiang. He is not otherwise documented.
Source: DILA Buddhist Person Authority A001982; Lèngyánjīng mìlù fasc. 1 colophon (X13n0283).