Huáyán guān mài yì jì 華嚴關脈義記
Notes on the Meaning of the Critical Articulations of the Huáyán [Sūtra] (anonymous parallel) [anonymous]
About the work
This 1-fascicle text is the anonymous companion to [[KR6e0095|Fǎzàng’s Huáyán jīng guānmài yì jì]] (T1879a) — given by the Taishō editors as T1879b (“b” indicating the variant or parallel text printed alongside T1879a). The two texts are closely related but textually distinct. Modern scholarship is divided on whether the anonymous variant represents an earlier draft of Fǎzàng’s work, a parallel composition by an unnamed contemporary, or a substantially independent work in the same genre.
Prefaces
No formal preface; the work has no attribution in the Taishō print.
Abstract
The work is conventionally placed in the broader Tang period, with its attribution to either 法藏 Fǎzàng’s circle or a near-contemporary anonymous Huáyán-school author. The bracket adopted here (670 – 800) reflects this maximum window. The doctrinal substance closely parallels T1879a — treatment of the guānmài 關脈 (critical articulations) of the Avataṃsaka’s structure — but with subtle differences in detail and emphasis.
The Taishō text (T1879b) is established on the yuán 原 (original-block) witness; the textual transmission is parallel to but distinct from T1879a.
Translations and research
- No substantial Western-language translation located.
- Hamar, Imre, ed. Reflecting Mirrors (2007).
Other points of interest
- The pairing of T1879a and T1879b in the Taishō print as parallel works on the same topic is one of the more interesting cases of Tang-period Chinese Buddhist textual transmission: the two texts circulated together in some recensions, were occasionally collated, and are presented in modern editions as parallel-but-distinct works.