Jīngāng jīng bǔzhù 金剛經補註
Supplemented Annotation of the Diamond Sūtra by 韓巖 Hán Yán (集解), 程衷懋 Chéng Zhōngmào (補註)
About the work
A two-juan late-Míng lay-Buddhist annotated commentary on the Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā-sūtra assembled in two editorial layers: the jíjiě 集解 (“collected explanations”) of Hán Yán (sobriquet Hèxuān jūshì 鶴軒居士, of Sānshān = Fúzhōu) and the bǔzhù 補註 (“supplemented annotation”) of Chéng Zhōngmào (sobriquet Mènghuá jūshì 夢華居士, of Hǎiyáng = Cháozhōu). Prefaced and brought to circulation by the layman 查應光 Zhā Yìngguāng (Tàishēng jūshì 汰生居士) on 天啟丙寅仲夏既望 = mid-summer day-after-full-moon, 1626. notBefore / notAfter = 1626 (preface = effective publication). Catalog dynasty 明.
Abstract
The text opens (No. 469-A) with Zhā Yìngguāng’s brief sponsoring preface, and (No. 469-B) with a long and rhetorically polished general statement quoted from Yǒngmíng Zhìjué Chánshī 永明智覺禪師 ( = 延壽 Yánshòu, 904–975) on the Vajracchedikā as the gateway to deliverance, followed by the principal apparatus. The body interleaves the 鳩摩羅什 Kumārajīva Vajracchedikā (KR6c0023) with annotations in two distinguished hands: Hán Yán’s jíjiě layer below the sūtra in larger block, and Chéng Zhōngmào’s bǔzhù in smaller interpolated block where supplementary remark or alternative reading was felt necessary. The opening lemma is canonical (the standard glossing of jīngāng = “essence of metal, smelted a hundred times yet unmelted, sharp enough to cut everything,” and bōluómì = “to-the-other-shore”), but the work’s distinctive character is the lay-devotional-Chán fusion — Yánshòu’s Pure-Land-flavored Chán is the explicit doctrinal frame, the apparatus is shaped for personal devotional study rather than monastic-school controversy, and the editorial division between jíjiě and bǔzhù mirrors the late-Míng lay-Buddhist publishing convention of multi-hand annotated devotional editions (cf. 袾宏 Zhū Hóng’s Pure-Land annotated editions of the same decades).
Translations and research
No substantial dedicated secondary literature located.
Other points of interest
The 1626 prefacing date places this work at the height of the late-Míng lay-Buddhist commentary boom under the Wànlì–Tiānqǐ literati Buddhist revival (the generation of Yuán Hóngdào, Lǐ Zhì, Zhū Hóng, and Hánshān Déqīng). The collaborative two-layer structure (jíjiě + bǔzhù) and the inclusion of the Yánshòu programmatic statement at the head are characteristic of this milieu.