Lèngyán jīng guānxīn dìngjiě dàgāng 楞嚴經觀心定解大綱
Main Outline of the “Mind-Contemplation Settled Explanation” of the Śūraṃgama-sūtra by 靈耀 (述)
About the work
A one-fascicle (1卷) main-outline summary (dàgāng 大綱) accompanying Língyào Quánzhāng 靈耀全彰 靈耀’s ten-fascicle Lèngyán jīng guānxīn dìngjiě 楞嚴經觀心定解 (KR6j0714). Preserved as X15 no. 305 in the Xùzàngjīng. Where the Kē (KR6j0712) gives the structural outline in raw schematic form, the Dàgāng offers a discursive overview — the principal Tiāntái-school doctrinal lessons that the Dìngjiě draws out of the sūtra.
Prefaces
The work opens with a substantial preface by Dùzhēn 扗臻 杜臻 (a layman from Chángshuǐ 長水, the same city as the celebrated Sòng Lèngyán commentator 子璿 Chángshuǐ Zǐxuán 長水子璿), dated Kāngxī 19, gēngshēn 庚申, mid-summer (1680). Dùzhēn frames the Dìngjiě programme as a Tiāntái-school refutation of two doctrinal errors he detects in 交光真鑑 Jiāoguāng Zhēnjiàn 交光真鑑’s earlier and influential Lèngyán jīng zhèngmài shū 楞嚴經正脈疏 (KR6j0703): the rejection of the six consciousnesses (六識) as the basis of practice, and the rejection of the threefold contemplation (三觀) as the path of awakening. Dùzhēn explicitly likens Língyào to 百松真覺 Bǎisōng Zhēnjué 百松真覺 (the Wànlì Tiāntái master who had similarly defended Tiāntái orthodoxy against 溫陵戒環 Wēnlíng Jièhuán 溫陵戒環’s Fǎhuá commentary): “Just as Bǎisōng was the Fǎhuá and Lèngyán’s meritorious officer, so too is Quánzhāng.” A second prefatory piece is by Língyào himself.
Abstract
The Dàgāng sets out the programmatic core of Língyào’s Lèngyán exegesis: the Sūtra must be read as a discourse on the threefold contemplation (sānguān: kōng 空 / jiǎ 假 / zhōng 中) carried out through the six consciousnesses, leading by graduated stages from initial recognition of the zhēncháng 真常 (“true permanence”) to perfect realization of juédìng yīxīn 決定一心 (“settled single-mind”). The work therefore positions itself within the long Tiāntái commentarial tradition extending back to 子璿 Chángshuǐ Zǐxuán 長水子璿 (the Sòng monk who first established Tiāntái-school Śūraṃgama exegesis), and Dùzhēn’s preface even speculates that Língyào is Zǐxuán’s “after-body” reincarnation. Composition: Kāngxī 19 / 1680.
Translations and research
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