Yìnguāng 印光 (1861-1940)
Yìnguāng is credited with reviving the Pure Land school 淨土宗 in China.
- 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
- 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
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: Fóguāng, 2004. Pp. 1.284c-288b.