Fǎhuá jīng lùn shùjì 法華經論述記
Composed Notes on the Lotus Sūtra Treatise Anonymous (Táng or post-Táng).
About the work
A single-juan anonymous Tang-period commentary on 世親菩薩 Vasubandhu’s Saddharma-puṇḍarīka-upadeśa (KR6d0126, T1519) — the principal Indic Mahāyāna treatise on the Lotus Sūtra. The work belongs to the Cí’ēn-school 慈恩 Yogācāra tradition’s engagement with Vasubandhu’s Lotus upadeśa, alongside 窺基 Kuījī’s Xuánzàn (KR6d0026) and the various Xuánzàn subcommentaries.
Prefaces
The text in the X46n0790 recension carries no separate translator’s preface and opens directly with extensive bracketed commentary on Vasubandhu’s exposition: “[Wonderful-Dharma Lotus Sūtra Upadeśa: Wonderful-Dharma Lotus Sūtra is the original-name of the explained sūtra. Upa-deśa is the title of the explanatory treatise.] The original-essential of the explained sūtra has two: 1, opening the gate of upāya; 2, showing the real-characteristics. Real-characteristics — this means the realisation-path. Gate of upāya — this means the teaching-path. These two kinds of paths jointly are profound … timely meanings, therefore named wonderful dharma. Lotus flower — parable for displaying the wonderful-dharma’s emergence from the muck of the ten conceits, and opening the blossom of the One-Vehicle’s reality, therefore likened to the lotus.”
Abstract
The Lùn shùjì is an anonymous Tang-period subcommentary on Vasubandhu’s Saddharma-puṇḍarīka-upadeśa that systematically explicates the Indic Yogācāra commentary’s doctrinal content for Sinitic readership. The work’s anonymous status and its preservation only in the Xù zàngjīng (X46n0790) suggest that it belonged to the broader Tang Cí’ēn-school commentarial corpus rather than to a specific named school lineage.
The dating is bracketed within the Tang-or-post-Tang productive period (c. 700–900). The textual content’s heavy citation of Cí’ēn-school doctrinal categories (the zhèngdào / jiàodào, the kāifāngbiànmén / shìzhēnshíxiāng dichotomy) places the work in the post-Kuījī Cí’ēn scholastic tradition.
Translations and research
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