Tiāntái Zhìzhě dàshī zhuànlùn 天台智者大師傳論
Biographical Discourse on the Tiāntái Great Master Zhìyǐ by 梁肅 (Liáng Sù / Liáng Jìngzhī, 述)
About the work
A single-juan mid-Táng biographical discourse on Zhìyǐ 智顗 (538–597) by Liáng Sù 梁肅 (753–793), the mid-Táng polymath and Tiāntái lay-promoter. Companion to Liáng Sù’s Shāndìng zhǐguān (KR6d0134).
Abstract
The work is one of the principal mid-Táng documentary records of Zhìyǐ’s biography and demonstrates Liáng Sù’s institutional role as a major lay-Buddhist promoter of the Tiāntái tradition at the late-Táng court. The composition is bracketed within Liáng Sù’s productive period c. 780–793.
Translations and research
See 梁肅 for the bibliography on Liáng Sù.