Guānyīn jīng xuányì jì huìběn kē 觀音經玄義記會本科文
Sectional Analysis of the Combined Edition of the Guānyīn Sūtra Xuányì Subcommentary Anonymous (late Míng or early Qing).
About the work
A single-juan anonymous kēwén 科文 (sectional analysis / structural diagram) of the combined edition of Zhīlǐ’s Guānyīn xuányì jì (KR6d0047, T1727), preserved as X35n0640 in the Xùzàngjīng. The text is a structural-outline accompaniment to the combined edition (huìběn 會本) of KR6d0052 in which Zhìyǐ’s Guānyīn xuányì and Zhīlǐ’s Xuányì jì are interwoven into a single readable text rather than circulating as separate works.
Prefaces
The text in the X35n0640 recension carries no separate translator’s preface. The work consists exclusively of hierarchical structural diagrams (○ ⃝ markers) showing the kēpàn 科判 sectional division of the combined Xuányì jì: “Juan 1 Kē: ○Explaining the Xuányì (in two): first, explaining the title (in two): first, explaining the title; second, the recording person (in two)…”
Abstract
The Kēwén belongs together with KR6d0051 (the tiáogè 條箇 outline-by-headings) and KR6d0053–KR6d0054 (the parallel apparatus on the Yìshū jì) as the auxiliary apparatus to the late-Míng combined-edition project on Zhīlǐ’s Pǔmén corpus. Together these four works document a major late-Míng textual-editorial enterprise that reorganised the original Sòng Pǔmén commentarial corpus — Zhìyǐ’s two works (Xuányì, Yìshū) and Zhīlǐ’s two subcommentaries (Xuányì jì, Yìshū jì) — into a more accessible combined-edition format suitable for late-Míng monastic and lay readership.
The Kēwén was composed alongside the combined edition (Huìběn) of KR6d0052, whose preface (by Wáng Jìcháng 王季常 居士 of the Gōngbù 工部) dates the project to Chóngzhēn 崇禎 1 (戊辰, 1628). The dating of the Kēwén itself is therefore most plausibly in the period 1628–1700 (extending the bracket to allow for late-Míng or early-Qing redactional activity).
Translations and research
No substantial secondary literature located.
Other points of interest
The kēwén genre — hierarchical structural diagrams of major commentarial works — was a distinctive late-Míng productive form, providing visual outlines that allowed students to navigate the dense topic-tree structure of Sòng-period scholastic commentaries. The genre is closely parallel to the Confucian biǎo 表 (chart) tradition of the late Míng Sìshū 四書 commentarial revival.
Links
- CBETA online text: https://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/zh/X0640
- Kanseki DB