Fǎzhì yíbiān guānxīn èrbǎi wèn 法智遺編觀心二百問
Fǎ-zhì’s Posthumously-Compiled Two Hundred Questions on Contemplating the Mind compiled by 繼忠 (Jìzhōng / Fúzōng Jìzhōng, 集)
About the work
A single-juan compilation by Fúzōng Jìzhōng 扶宗繼忠 (1012–1082) of two hundred guānxīn (“contemplating-the-mind”) questions composed by 知禮 Sìmíng Zhīlǐ 四明知禮 (= Fǎzhì dàshī 法智大師), originally addressed to the shānwài tradition’s 昭 Zhāoshàngrén 昭上人 (the Zhèjiāngyáng 浙陽 lecture-master) in Jǐngdé 景德 4 (1007). The work is one of the principal documentary records of the shānjiā / shānwài polemical exchange in its mature form. Body attribution: Fǎsūn Jìzhōng jí 法孫繼忠集 (“compiled by [his] dharma-grandson Jìzhōng”).
Abstract
The Èrbǎi wèn preserves Zhīlǐ’s two hundred guānxīn questions in their original 1007 polemical-exchange form, providing essential evidence for the early stages of the shānjiā / shānwài dispute that came to dominate Sòng Tiāntái scholastic culture. Through Jìzhōng’s editorial work, the polemical-exchange materials were preserved for posterity as a documentary record of the doctrinal controversy.
The composition of the original Zhīlǐ questions is securely dated to 1007; Jìzhōng’s editorial compilation is bracketed within his productive period c. 1040–1082.
Translations and research
See KR6d0158, KR6d0186 for the bibliography on Zhīlǐ.