Yinguang 印光

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Yìnguāng 印光 (1861-1940)

Style name 號: Cháng cánkuì sēng 常慚愧僧
Dharma name 法名: Shèngliàng 聖量
Courtesy name 字: Zǐrèn 子任 (used only in lay life?)
Lay name 俗名: Zhào Shàoyī 趙紹伊
Born 12/12, 1861 (Xiánfēng 咸豐 11) Héyáng county 郃陽縣 (now written 合陽) in Shǎnxī 陜西
Died 11/4, 1940 (Mínguó 民國 29) at Língyánshān Temple 靈巖山寺, Sūzhōu 蘇州

Notable Associates:

Yìnguāng 印光 (1861-1940) is credited with reviving the Pure Land school 淨土宗 in China.

Shì Dōngchū 釋東初. Zhōngguó Fójiào jìndài shǐ 中國佛教近代史 (A History of Early Contemporary Chinese Buddhism), in Dōngchū lǎorén quánjí 東初老人全集 (Complete Collection of Old Man Dongchu), vols. 1-2. Taipei: Dongchu, 1974 Pp. 2.761-765.
Yú Língbō 于凌波, ed. Xiàndài Fójiào rénwù cídiǎn 現代佛教人物辭典 (A Dictionary of Modern Buddhist Persons), 2 vols. Taipei: Foguang, 2004. Pp. 1.284c-288b.

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 ==Important Works==
-* 文鈔
 * 印光法師信稿
-* 印光法師文鈔
+* 印光大師文鈔 (Writings of Master Yinguang), includes:
-* 印光法師文鈔續編
+** 正編 First Series, Four Volumes
-** Many of Yìnguāng's works can be found online [http://www.bfnn.org/yinkuang/article.htm here].
+** 續編 Second Series, Two Volumes
+** 三編 Third Series
+** Digitized version available here: [http://haihui.ntcu.edu.tw/data/56/index.asp]
+** Other digitized works of Yìnguāng available here: [http://www.bfnn.org/yinkuang/article.htm]
 ==Notes==