Jīngāng jīng zhùjiǎng 金剛經註講

The Diamond Sūtra: Annotated Discourse by 行敏 Xíngmǐn (述)

About the work

A two-juan early-Qīng Vajracchedikā commentary by Duànméi Xíngmǐn 斷眉行敏, sister volume to KR6c0089 Jīngāng jīng rúshì jīngyì. The catalog credit-line shù 述 (“expounded”) and the title-formula zhùjiǎng (“annotation-and-discourse”) identify the genre: a verse-by-verse commentary in the discoursive jiǎng (lecture-like) register, more expansive than KR6c0089’s structural reading. Together the two works form Xíngmǐn’s coordinated Vajracchedikā pair — rúshì jīngyì as structural / hermeneutic, zhùjiǎng as expository / discoursive. Preserved as X25 no. 502. notBefore / notAfter = 1660 / 1700 (same window as the sister volume). Catalog dynasty 清.

Abstract

The text opens with a particularly clean canonical opening: jīngāng shì jīn zhōng zhī jīngjiān zhě (“vajra is the essence-firmness of metal”); bānruò zhě fányǔ, huá yán zhìhuì (“prajñā is Sanskrit, in Chinese ‘wisdom’”); bōluómì zhě, dào bǐ’àn (“pāramitā: reaching the other shore”). Then a substantial systematic exposition of the six pāramitās as a coordinated path: yī bùshī, dù qiāntān; èr chíjiè, dù yínxié; sān rěnrǔ, dù chēnnù; sì jīngjìn, dù xiètuì; wǔ chándìng, dù sànluàn; liù zhìhuì, dù yúchīprajñā identified as that which néng shēng bāwàn sìqiān zhìhuì (“can give rise to the 84,000 wisdoms”) and so subsumes the other five pāramitās. The body proceeds verse-by-verse through the 鳩摩羅什 Kumārajīva Vajracchedikā with annotated jiǎng exposition; the discoursive register and the systematic doctrinal anchoring (Vajracchedikā read as the prajñā moment of the six-pāramitā path) make this a useful Línjì pedagogical jiǎng version of the sūtra.

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