Ming-sheng [明勝] (n.d.) (PY Mingsheng; Myōshō): A priest of the Three Treatises (San-lun) school in China from the sixth through the seventh century. Along with Chi-tsang, he was a disciple of Fa-lang (507–581). According to one account, Shan-tao, the third patriarch of the Chinese Pure Land school, first entered the priesthood as Ming-sheng’s disciple and studied the Lotus and Vimalakīrti sutras under him.