Li Yuanjing 李圓淨 (ca.1894 - 1950)
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Li Yuanjing 李圓淨 (ca.1894 - 1950) was an author and lay Buddhist whose Buddhist scholarship was well-known during the Republican period.
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Li came from a wealthy family, and studied at Shanghai's Fudan University. He worked in business in Shanghai until he contracted tuberculosis and had to travel to Japan for treatment in 1922. While there, he often read in the library of Tokyo Imperial Univeristy, and by chance came across Buddhist scriptures, which he began to study with great enthusiasm.
After returning to China he continued his study of Buddhist scriptures, and visited Putuoshan where he met Yinguang and became his lay disciple, receiving the Dharma name Yuanjing.