Li Jingwei 李經緯

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Lǐ Jīngwéi 李經緯 (18?? - 19??)
  • Dharma name 法名: Zhèngxìng 證性[1]
  • Born unknown
  • Died unknown (after 1952?)
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Lǐ Jīngwéi 李經緯 (18?? - 19??) was a co-founder and permanent board member of Shànghǎi Buddhist Books 上海佛學書局, as well as a lay Buddhist and an author.

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Biography

Few details of Lǐ's biography are known, but some information is provided by an article he wrote entitled "Xuéfó zìjì 學佛自記" (A personal account of my Buddhist studies). According to this article, he first turned toward Buddhist matters as a result of witnessing the slaughter of an animal for the first time, after which he could not bring himself to eat meat. When Lǐ was in his teens his father passed away, and his family had somebody chant the Amida Sutra 阿彌陀經. Lǐ was struck by the message of the sūtra and thought over it, as well as issues of death, rebirth and karma, for some time. In the early years of the Republic (1912) he began to read the Shànghǎi periodical Língxué zázhì 靈學雜誌 (Numinous Studies Magazine) but could not resolve his doubts; later he subscribed to Hǎicháoyīn 海潮音 and Juéshè cóngshū 覺社叢書. Lǐ ascribed the roots of his study of Buddhism to reading these periodicals, as well as the Buddhist books published by the Medical Press 醫學書局 founded by Dīng Fúbǎo 丁福保. In time he took refuge under Yìnguāng 印光, and took the Dharma name Zhèngxìng 證性.

In 1922, at the urging of Zhū Shísēng 朱石僧, Lǐ became involved in the founding of the World Buddhist Lay Association 世界佛教居士林.[2] He worked with Zhū to develop the association as well as the association's headquarters, which was completed in 1926. Lǐ also corrected the text of the association's publications, and edited works by Xiǎnyīn 顯蔭, tasks that helped in his own studies.

He was a co-editor of the periodical Fóxué bànyuè kān 佛學半月刊 (Buddhism Semimonthly), along with Fàn Gǔnóng 范古農 and Sūn Zhìwèi 孫志衛. In 1936 he became involved in the movement to establish a public Buddhist cemetery in Shànghǎi.[3]

Important Works

  • Zhūfó púsà běnyuàn jí 諸佛菩薩本願集 (Collection of Original Vows of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas). Shànghǎi: Shànghǎi shìjiè fójiào jūshìlín, 1929.[4]
  • Xiàng Qínzhuāng 項琴莊, ed. Húsù jìwén sānjuàn 觳觫紀聞三卷 (Records of Trembling in Fear in Three Fascicles). Jièshā fàngshēng cóngshū 戒殺放生叢書 (Series on Not-Killing and Releasing Life). Shànghǎi: Shànghǎi Fóxué shūjú, 1934.

Notes

  1. In some sources erroneously given as Chéngxìng 澄性
  2. He appears in print as part of the organization as early as 1923. See MFQ 12:38.
  3. See MFQ 52:178.
  4. Possibly a multi-volume work.

References

  • Lǐ Jīngwéi 李經緯. "Xuéfó zìjì 學佛自記" (A personal account of my Buddhist studies). Shìjiè Fójiào jūshìlín línkān 世界佛教居士林林刊 (Magazine of the World Buddhist Lay Association), No. 36 (December 1933), pp. 17-18. Reprinted in MFQ 15:455-456.
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