根如大師，近現代琴僧，法名印華，江蘇省泰興人氏，一八八六年出生，一九六一年辭世。自幼喪父，六歲時隨師善緣至普陀山豐山庵居，後隨師祖古峰老人至龍游靈耀寺習琴數年，屬新浙派。一九二五年，任南京卧佛寺住持；一九三九年，任南京特別市佛教會候補理事；次年，赴安徽滁州開化寺任住持，並擬議修繕寺院及醉翁亭。新中國成立後，任中國佛教協會理事、中國音樂家協會理事、安徽省政協委員等職。
Master Gen Ru was born in 1886 and passed away in 1961. His ancestral home was in Taizing, Jiangsu Province. When he was six, he followed his master Shan Yan to settle in Putuo Mountain and became a monk there with a name Yin Hua. He learned the qin under his great master Gu Feng of the new Zhe School. In 1925, he was the abbot of theWo Fo Monastery. In 1940, he was then the abbot of the Kai Hua Monastery in Chuzhou, Anhui Province.