Jīngāng jīng cǎiwēi kē 金剛經采微科
Structural Outline of “Picking the Subtle from the Diamond Sūtra” by 曇應 Tányìng (排)
About the work
A one-juan structural outline (kēpàn 科判) accompanying Tányìng’s main Vajracchedikā commentary, Jīngāng jīng cǎiwēi 金剛經采微 (KR6c0052). The text consists entirely of nested headings that map the sūtra into Tiāntái-style hierarchical sections (釋題 / 釋文; 序分 / 正宗 / 流通; 種姓不斷; 通示大綱 / 附文帖釋, etc.), with no commentary prose — its function is to render the parent commentary’s exegetical architecture visible at a glance, in the manner standard for late-Sòng Tiāntái scholastic publishing. The catalog credits Tányìng as pái 排 (“arranged”), while in KR6c0052 he is shù 述 (“expounded”). Preserved in Xùzàngjīng X24 no. 463. notBefore / notAfter match the parent commentary’s preface (1132) and revision (1163).
Abstract
Tányìng was a Southern-Sòng Tiāntái master, dharma-heir of 齊玉 Qíyù of the Shàngtiānzhúsì 上天竺寺 (Hángzhōu), and abbot of the Huìjiěsì 慧解寺 — whence his alternate name Huìjiě Tányìng 慧解曇應. The cǎiwēi trilogy (KR6c0051 outline; KR6c0052 commentary; KR6c0053 supplementary remarks) represents the Tiāntái reception of the Vajracchedikā in the generation between 知禮 Sìmíng Zhīlǐ (960–1028) and 善月 Shànyuè (1149–1241; cf. KR6c0050), and explicitly reads the sūtra against the Asaṅga / Vasubandhu commentaries (無著論, 天親頌) that had shaped earlier Chinese exegesis. The 科 was published as a separate volume — a common practice in Sòng monastic printing, where the outline circulated independently to facilitate study and recitation alongside the commentary proper.
Translations and research
No substantial secondary literature located on this outline volume; for the parent commentary see KR6c0052.