Zhù Fǎhuá běnjì shí bùèr mén 註法華本迹十不二門

Annotated Commentary on the Lotus’s Origin-and-Trace Ten Non-Dual Gates by 宗翌 (Zōngyì, 述)

About the work

A single-juan Northern-Sòng annotated commentary by Zōngyì 宗翌 on Zhànrán’s Shí bùèr mén (KR6d0157, T1927). The composition is securely dated by Zōngyì’s own preface to Xiánpíng 咸平 1 (= 998 CE).

Abstract

The work belongs together with Yuánqīng’s Shìzhū zhǐ (KR6d0160) as one of the very earliest Sòng commentaries on Zhànrán’s Shí bùèr mén, predating Zhīlǐ’s foundational Zhǐyào chāo (KR6d0158) by three decades. The 998 dating places the work in the immediate aftermath of the Five Dynasties period and at the beginning of the Northern-Sòng Tiāntái revival.

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