Jīnguāngmíng jīng xuányì shíyí jì 金光明經玄義拾遺記
Notes Gathering Remnant Meaning on the Profound Meaning of the Sūtra of Golden Light composed by 知禮 (Zhīlǐ, 述)
About the work
T1784 is 知禮’s six-fascicle subcommentary on Zhìyǐ’s [[KR6i0304|Jīnguāngmíng xuányì 金光明玄義]] (T1783). The genre is the shíyíjì 拾遺記 (“notes gathering [the master’s] remnant meaning”): a section-by-section annotation of the parent commentary that situates Zhìyǐ’s positions within the larger Tiāntái doctrinal grid and extends them into points the master left implicit.
Abstract
T1784 was composed in the late 1010s during 知禮’s residence at the Yánqìngsì 延慶寺 in Sìmíng (Míngzhōu), at the height of the 山家 / 山外 (shānjiā / shānwài) controversy that defined Sòng-period Tiāntái. The text is one of the principal weapons in 知禮’s polemic against the shānwài tradition led by Gūshān Zhīyuán 孤山智圓 (976–1022) over the proper interpretation of T1783 — specifically, over whether the guānxīn shì 觀心釋 (“contemplation-of-mind explanation”) in T1783 should be read with the wàngxīn 妄心 (deluded mind) as the object of contemplation, or with the zhēnxīn 真心 (true mind) — the position 知禮 successfully defended as the school’s orthodox reading.
The dating bracket follows from 知禮’s correspondence and from his disciple’s Sìmíng zūnzhě jiàoxíng lù 四明尊者教行錄 (X1937), which places the principal Suvarṇaprabhāsa commentaries between 1017 (the conferral of the title 法智大師) and 1020. Subsequent Sòng-period Tiāntái writers (especially 從義; cf. KR6i0314) developed 知禮’s readings further; the 山外 alternative readings did not survive as a continuous tradition.
Related canonical texts: parent commentary KR6i0304 (金光明經玄義 / T1783); the parallel wénjù line, KR6i0307 (金光明經文句記 / T1786).
Translations and research
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