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|name-date=Lǐ Jīngwéi 李經緯 (18?? - 19??)
|names=* Dharma name 法名: Zhèngxìng 證性<ref>In some sources erroneously given as Chéngxìng 澄性</ref>
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|birth=unknown
|death=unknown (after 1952?)
|associates=Notable Associates:
* Fàn Gǔnóng [[范古農]]
* Wáng Yìtíng [[王一亭]]
* Zhū Shísēng [[朱石僧]]
* Zhū Zǐqiáo [[朱子橋]]
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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.

== 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]].<ref>He appears in print as part of the organization as early as [[1923]]. See MFQ 12:38.</ref> 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.<ref>See MFQ 52:178.</ref>

== 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.<ref>Possibly a multi-volume work.</ref>
* 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 ==
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== 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:[[Media:MFQ_15_455.png|455]]-[[Media:MFQ_15_456.png|456]].

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