Yúlánpén jīng shū xiàohéng chāo kē 盂蘭盆經疏孝衡鈔科
Outline of the “Filial-Piety Balance” Sub-Commentary on the Commentary on the Yúlánpén Sūtra outline edited by 遇榮 (Yùróng, 集定)
About the work
X374 in one fascicle is the kēwén 科文 (hierarchical structural outline) of 遇榮’s Xiàohéng chāo 孝衡鈔 (X375) — itself a sub-commentary on 宗密’s Yúlánpén jīng shū. The witness is signed “集定” (“compiled and finalized”) by 遇榮 (honorific Guǎngyǎn dàshī 廣演大師, fl. Northern Sòng). The text is a structural outline (one of the very common Sòng-Buddhist kēwén genres) preserved separately so that students could see the Xiàohéng chāo’s organization at a glance. The introductory paragraph rehearses the Yúlánpén narrative and the sūtra’s filial-piety doctrine before giving the outline.
Abstract
The Xiàohéng chāo kē introduces the parent commentary’s argument as follows: “盂蘭盆經者。乃大目犍連。解母青提夫人倒懸之苦。張孝道之宗本” (“The Yúlánpén jīng records how Mahā-Maudgalyāyana relieved his mother Lady Qīngtí of her suffering of being hung upside-down; it sets forth the foundational principle of the way of filial piety”). The mother’s name “青提夫人” (Qīngtí Fūrén) is a Chinese-folkloric elaboration not found in T685 itself but that became standard in Tang-Sòng popular reception of the Maudgalyāyana legend. The outline distinguishes worldly filial piety (shìjiān zhī xiào 世間之孝 — bodily care, social honour, not disgracing one’s name) from supra-worldly filial piety (chūshì zhī xiào 出世之孝 — taking up the Dharma to liberate one’s parents from transmigration). 遇榮’s contribution to the Yúlánpén sub-commentary tradition is the systematic kēwén division of 宗密’s commentary, of which this is the schedule and X375 the discursive expansion.
Composition window: 遇榮’s active period under the Northern Sòng imperial honorific system (980–1100).
Parent texts: KR6i0364 (T685) → KR6i0365 (T1792) → KR6i0370 (X375 Xiàohéng chāo) ← this Kē (X374). Companion sub-commentaries: KR6i0367 (X372), KR6i0368 (X373), KR6i0371 (X376).
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- Teiser, Stephen F. The Ghost Festival in Medieval China. Princeton, 1988.
No standalone Western-language translation located.