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:

Article editor: Gregory Adam Scott

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

Contents 1 Biography 2 Important Works 3 Notes 4 References

Biography

Important Works

• 文鈔
• 印光法師信稿
• 印光法師文鈔
• 印光法師文鈔續編
  • Many of Yìnguāng's works can be found online here.

Notes

References

• 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.