Jīngāng jīng huìzuǎn 金剛經彙纂
Compendium of the Diamond Sūtra by 孫念劬 Sūn Niànqú (纂)
About the work
A two-juan late-Qiánlóng / early-Jiāqìng Vajracchedikā compendium by Sūn Niànqú (born 1742; zì Shùfǔ 述甫, sobriquet Jiézhāi jūshì 潔齋居士). The catalog credit-line zuǎn 纂 (“compiled”) indicates an editorial-compendium genre, in which Sūn drew best-readings from earlier major Vajracchedikā commentaries and arranged them in a single accessible synthesis. Two prefaces frame the work: the original self-preface dated 乾隆五十八年歲次癸丑三月望日 = Qiánlóng 58, 3rd-month full-moon = 1793-04-25, and a revised preface dated 嘉慶元年歲次丙辰臘月望日 = Jiāqìng 1, 12th-month full-moon = 1797-01-13 — a four-year gap suggesting substantial revision before final publication. notBefore = 1793, notAfter = 1797. Preserved as X25 no. 504. Catalog dynasty 清.
Abstract
Sūn’s preface lays out the doctrinal frame: the Vajracchedikā “encompasses the deep meanings of all sūtras”; its great purport is pòchú wǒzhí 破除我執 (“breaking ego-grasping”) with wúzhù 無住 (non-abiding) as foundation and jiàngfú 降伏 (subduing the mind) as entry-gate. The work néng shǐ rén zài yù wàng yù, jū chén chū chén 能使人在欲忘欲，居塵出塵 (“enables a person, while in desire, to forget desire; while in the dust, to depart from the dust”); bù shǐ wǒ wéi jìng yòng, ér shǐ jìng wéi wǒ yòng 不使我為境用，而使境為我用 (“not letting the I be used by objects, but letting objects be used by the I”) — a reading aligned with the late-eighteenth-century lay-Buddhist xìngmìngshū 性命書 (nature-and-life-book) discourse popular among Qiánlóng / Jiāqìng literati. The huìzuǎn compendium gathers verse-by-verse selections from major commentaries — naming 宗密 Zōngmì, 子璿 Zǐxuán, 宗鏡 Zōngjìng, 楊圭 Yáng Guī, 德清 Hānshān, 智旭 Zhìxù, 通理 Tōnglǐ — under each passage of the 鳩摩羅什 Kumārajīva Vajracchedikā, with brief editorial bridging-commentary by Sūn.
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