A transcription of the name Vimalakīrti, which means 'spotless name', and is translated as Jingming (淨名) etc. Vimalakīrti was a rich man who lived in Vaiśālī, India, and was renowned for his profound understanding of Mahāyāna. According to the Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa-sūtra 維摩經, he lived in a small room of ten feet square. Once, when he became ill, the Buddha sent to his place his disciples, headed by Mañjuśrī, to whom Vimalakīrti revealed the profundity of the Mahāyāna doctrine.

Vimalakīrti, 維摩詰 (維摩羅詰); 毘摩羅詰 undefiled or spotless reputation, 'a native of Vaiśālī, said to have been a contemporary of Śākyamuni, and to have visited China.' Eitel. The Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa sūtra 維摩詰所說經 is an apocryphal account of 'conversations between Śākyamuni and some residents of Vaiśālī', tr. by Kumārajīva; an earlier tr. was the維摩詰經, a later was by Xuanzang, and there are numerous treatises.

A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms, William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous

維摩詰的簡稱，華譯為淨名，淨是清淨無垢之義，名是聲名遠揚之義，相傳是金粟如來的化身，自妙喜國化生在此世上，以居士的身份輔助釋迦教化眾生。

陳義孝編, 竺摩法師鑑定, 《佛學常見辭彙》