Jīngāng jīng shūlùn zuǎnyào (xuǎnlù) 金剛經疏論纂要（選錄「釋金剛經纂要疏科」）
Selected Headings from the Compendious-Essentials Commentary on the Diamond Sūtra (extract: “Explication of the Headings of the Diamond Sūtra Compendious-Essentials Commentary”) extracted by 子璿 (Zǐxuán, 錄)
About the work
A single-juan extract of the outline-headings (kē 科) section from Chángshuǐ Zǐxuán’s 長水子璿 Jīngāng jīng shūlùn zuǎnyào 金剛經疏論纂要 — the Northern-Sòng Chángshuǐ Zǐxuán’s editorial reorganization of 宗密 Zōngmì’s (780–841) Diamond Sūtra commentary KR6c0041. The byline reads 長水沙門子璿 (“Chángshuǐ śramaṇa Zǐxuán”). Preserved at P187 no. 1624.
Abstract
Authorship: by Zǐxuán 子璿 (alternate persona-name Chángshuǐ Zǐxuán 長水子璿; 965–1038 CE), the Northern-Sòng Huáyán-school scholar based at Chángshuǐyuàn 長水院. Zǐxuán was the principal Sòng-period editorial-redactor of 宗密 Zōngmì’s commentarial corpus, producing the standard Sòng recensions of Zōngmì’s Yuánjué jīng 圓覺經 (T1795 / T1796), Huáyán commentary (with sub-commentary), and the present Diamond Sūtra commentary structuring.
notBefore = 990 (Zǐxuán’s mature scholarly period); notAfter = 1038 (Zǐxuán’s death).
The work is a structural / outline-extract of the KR6c0041 Jīngāng jīng shūlùn zuǎnyào full commentary — providing the kē 科 (heading-outline / topic-tree) framework that allows readers to navigate the substantive commentary. As such, it is more a reading-aid index than an independent doctrinal work, but is preserved separately in the canonical tradition for its practical-pedagogical utility.
Translations and research
- Gregory, Peter N. Tsung-mi and the Sinification of Buddhism. Princeton, 1991; reprinted Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2002.