Guānyīn jīng yìshū jì tiáogè 觀音經義疏記條箇
Outline-by-Headings of the Guānyīn Sūtra Yìshū Subcommentary Anonymous (late Míng or early Qing).
About the work
A single-juan anonymous tiáogè 條箇 (item-by-item topic outline) of the late-Míng combined-edition of 知禮’s Zhīlǐ Guānyīn yìshū jì (KR6d0049, T1729). Together with the corresponding kēwén 科文 sectional analysis (KR6d0053), it provides the topic-index navigational aid complementing the structural-outline approach. The work is preserved as X35n0644 in the Xùzàngjīng.
Prefaces
The text in the X35n0644 recension carries no separate translator’s preface. It opens directly with the topical headings of juan 1: “Juan 1: title-meaning of the Yìshū; ancient masters and present-house section divisions (the two ancient-master schools and the four present-master kē); ‘then’ [the opening of the Pǔmén chapter] explained through the four siddhānta; explanation of the bodhisattva Akṣayamati’s [Wújìnyì 無盡意] name; the tǐkōng (essence-emptiness) penetrating to the latter three [doctrinal classifications]; in yuánjiào the doctrine of three-truths’ inexhaustibility; the Avataṃsaka ten-inexhaustible dharmaparyāya; the middle-way doctrine of inexhaustibility…”
Abstract
The Tiáogè parallels KR6d0051 (the Xuányì jì tiáogè) in providing a topic-by-topic navigational aid to the corresponding combined-edition text. Where the Kēwén organises the text by hierarchical sectional division, the Tiáogè organises it by topical headings drawn from the substantive doctrinal content, allowing readers to locate specific passages by subject without having to navigate the larger structural framework.
The opening topic-list demonstrates the breadth of doctrinal content covered in Zhīlǐ’s Yìshū jì: textual-critical issues (the comparison of Tiāntái and “ancient master” sectional analyses), Buddhist hermeneutics (the four siddhānta exegetical method), nominal exegesis (the bodhisattva names), Tiāntái doctrinal classification (the yuánjiào / tōngjiào / biéjiào / zàngjiào fourfold framework), and engagement with Huāyán doctrine (the ten-inexhaustible dharmaparyāya of the Avataṃsaka).
The dating, like the corresponding Kēwén, is most plausibly fixed to the period of the parallel combined-edition project (1628–1629), with the bracket extended to 1700 to allow for late-Míng or early-Qing redactional activity.
Translations and research
No substantial secondary literature located.
Other points of interest
The four navigational works (KR6d0050, KR6d0051, KR6d0053, KR6d0054) — two kēwén and two tiáogè — together represent perhaps the most thorough late-Míng systematisation of the navigational apparatus for any single Sòng-period commentarial corpus. Their existence demonstrates both the centrality of the Pǔmén corpus in late-Míng Tiāntái pedagogy and the late-Míng monastic publishing enterprise’s commitment to providing comprehensive access to the Sòng scholastic heritage.