Jīngāng jīng xīnyìn shū 金剛經心印疏
The Diamond Sūtra: Mind-Seal Commentary by 溥畹 Pǔwǎn (述)
About the work
A two-juan mid-Qīng (Kāngxī / Yōngzhèng / Qiánlóng-era) Vajracchedikā commentary by Lángǔ Pǔwǎn 蘭谷溥畹, an imperially-appointed sūtra-lecturer (qīncì jiǎngjīng 欽賜講經) at the Fǎjièsì 法界寺 in Yúnnán — a relatively rare long-distance imperial monastic posting from his native Yángzhōu (Guǎnglíng) all the way to Yúnnán. The title’s xīnyìn 心印 (“mind-seal”) signals the work’s Chán hermeneutic frame, but the format is structural-doctrinal: opens with a hierarchical kē outline (“此經科分為三 / 一序分(二)…”), then proceeds to verse-by-verse annotated commentary. Preserved as X25 no. 505. The text bears no internal date; notBefore / notAfter set conservatively to the mid-Qīng (1700–1796). Catalog dynasty 清.
Abstract
The opening kē (structural outline) presents the sūtra under the standard Tiāntái 序分 / 正宗 / 流通 frame, with multiple sub-divisions per major section. The body interleaves the 鳩摩羅什 Kumārajīva Vajracchedikā with annotation arranged for monastic-pedagogical use. The doctrinal apparatus is moderately Chán-flavored — the xīnyìn metaphor of the title invites reading the sūtra as a transmission-document of the mind-to-mind seal — but the underlying scholastic structure is conventional Huáyán-Tiāntái. The work is one of the better-organized mid-Qīng provincial monastic Vajracchedikā commentaries, distinguished by its Yúnnán provenance.
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