Sìjiào yí zhù huìbǔ fǔhóng jì 四教儀註彙補輔宏記
Compiled-and-Supplemented Auxiliary-Wide Notes on the Annotated Four-Doctrines Manual by 性權 (Xìngquán / Shìsān, 記)
About the work
A ten-juan monumental Qīng-period subcommentary on Dìguān’s Tiāntái sìjiào yí (KR6d0168, T1931) and its principal commentaries, compiled by Xìngquán 性權 over four years in the Qiánlóng era and finalised in Kāngxī 44 (1705) per his own preface. The work draws together the entire SòngYuánMíng Sìjiào yí commentarial tradition into a unified comprehensive synthesis. The textual transmission involves three editorial layers: Xìngquán’s original Qīng compilation; Jiāqìng-era supplementation-and-correction by the lay-disciple 錢伊庵 Qián Yī’ān (錢伊菴居士); and Guāngxù-era systematic arrangement-and-printing by 諦閑 Dìxián fǎshī.
Prefaces
The text opens with the Yuánxù 原序 (original preface): “The Tiāntái Sìjiào yí jízhù: a single edition entered the canon and was circulated long ago. But because the text is brief while the meaning is rich, without broadly searching the sūtras and treatises to expound it, how could new students enter deeply into the inner-chamber? The Fǔhóng jì — by tradition the mountain-house’s later succession — gathered and recorded it; therefore [it serves] to assist the jízhù and to extend the doctrine-and-contemplation. Also called the Fúzōng jì 扶宗記. Regrettably it was not formerly engraved on woodblocks; secret-stored at the lecture-platform, treasured beyond the Lóng-canon. Consequently transmitting-copyists’ phrasing-and-punctuation were defective; characters and dots scrambled or misprinted…”
Abstract
The Fǔhóng jì is the most ambitious Qīng-period production on the Tiāntái doctrinal-classification tradition: it integrates the entire SòngYuánMíng commentarial corpus on the Sìjiào yí into a single ten-juan synthesis suitable for systematic Qīng-period Tiāntái scholastic study. The work’s institutional standing — through its three-stage editorial production extending from the early Qīng (Kāngxī) through the Jiāqìng and Guāngxù periods — demonstrates the continuing institutional vitality of Tiāntái scholarship through the entire Qīng era.
Translations and research
No substantial secondary literature located.
Other points of interest
The three-stage editorial production of the Fǔhóng jì — Xìngquán’s original Kāngxī compilation, 錢伊庵 Qián Yī’ān’s Jiāqìng supplementation, and 諦閑 Dìxián’s Guāngxù systematic arrangement — is one of the most thoroughly documented examples of multi-generation Qīng Buddhist editorial production. Dìxián fǎshī 諦閑法師 (1858–1932) was one of the most institutionally significant late-Qīng / Republican-period Tiāntái masters, whose editorial work on the Fǔhóng jì helped consolidate the modern Tiāntái scholastic apparatus.