Huáyán niàn fó sānmèi lùn 華嚴念佛三昧論
Treatise on the Recitation-of-Buddhas Samādhi of the Huáyán by 彭際清 (Péng Jìqīng, 述)
About the work
This 1-fascicle text by 彭際清 Péng Jìqīng is the most influential single work of late-Qīng lay-Buddhist Huáyán-Pure-Land synthesis. The treatise integrates the niàn fó sānmèi 念佛三昧 (“Buddha-Recitation Samādhi”) of the Pure Land tradition with the Huáyán-school doctrine of the dharma-realm, providing a sustained lay-Buddhist contemplative-devotional theology in which the Sukhāvatī of Amitābha Buddha is identified with the Huáyán dharma-dhātu and the Pure Land devotional practice of niàn fó (“recitation of the Buddha’s name”) becomes a contemplative entry into the Huáyán cosmology.
Prefaces
No formal preface.
Abstract
The bracket adopted here (1770 – 1796) reflects 彭際清 Péng’s mature lay-Buddhist activity. The doctrinal substance — the synthesis of Pure Land devotional practice with Huáyán metaphysics — became the foundational text of late-Qīng / early-Republican lay-Buddhist intellectualism and shaped the modern Chinese Buddhist revival under figures such as Yáng Wénhuì 楊文會 (1837–1911) and Tàixū 太虛 (1890–1947).
The work is preserved in the Manji Xù zàng jīng (X1030) collection.
Translations and research
- No substantial Western-language translation located.
- Welch, Holmes. The Buddhist Revival in China (1968).
- Goldfuss, Gabriele. Vers un Bouddhisme du XXe siècle: Yang Wenhui (1837-1911). Paris: Collège de France, 2001 — for the lineage from Péng Jìqīng to the modern Buddhist revival.
Other points of interest
- The Pure-Land-Huáyán synthesis articulated in this work is one of the most consequential late-imperial Chinese Buddhist intellectual contributions, providing a doctrinal-devotional framework that survived the late-Qīng / early-Republican collapse of the imperial Buddhist establishment.