Xiūshè yúqié jíyào shīshí tányí 修設瑜伽集要施食壇儀
Cultivating-and-Setting-Up Yoga-Compendium Food-Bestowal Altar-Ritual by 袾宏 Yúnqī Zhūhóng (補註)
About the work
A one-fascicle (1卷) expanded altar-ritual (tányí 壇儀) for the fàng yànkǒu food-bestowal liturgy, supplemented and annotated (bǔzhù 補註) by 袾宏 Yúnqī Zhūhóng 雲棲袾宏 (1535–1615), companion volume to Yúqié jíyào shīshí yíguǐ 瑜伽集要施食儀軌 (KR6j0753). Preserved as X59 no. 1081 in the Xùzàngjīng.
Prefaces
The opening Xù 敘 records: “The Yoga shīshí [liturgy] circulates in many versions, with their abridgments-and-expansions divergent and the míngxiāng 名相 (names-and-categories) of the ritual entangled. The version practiced at the present mountain follows Yúnqī dàshī’s correction (jiàozhèng 較正) and the Tányí bǔzhù — also the master’s grandmotherly-stern instruction. He saw the late-age student broadly disseminating the yànkǒu but flaunting the splendor of Cathay dramatic forms — competing in vulgar performance, only loving noisy excitement; the wondrous purport of the threefold contemplation was set aside and unheard. Therefore the zhēnyán (mantra) phrasing and pause were not clear, the hand-mudrās and Sanskrit-syllable forms had also lost their proper transmission; how much less the contemplative gate.”
Abstract
The Tányí is the expanded ritual companion to the Yíguǐ (KR6j0753): where the Yíguǐ establishes the canonical form of the dhāraṇī and Sanskrit-syllable visualizations, the Tányí establishes the broader altar-construction protocol — the tán 壇 (altar) layout, the yìn 印 (mudrā) sequence (with thirty-six in total, organized in six liùhé 六合 paired-units), and the broader liturgical performance. Zhūhóng’s bǔzhù annotations correct the most common late-Míng performance errors and recover a cohesive ritual program. The companion volumes KR6j0753 and KR6j0754 together constitute the canonical Yúnqī ritual-reform of the yànkǒu liturgy, foundational for all subsequent Qīng and modern Chinese Buddhist monastic practice. Composition: late-Wànlì period.
Translations and research
- Yü Chün-fang, The Renewal of Buddhism in China: Chu-hung and the Late Ming Synthesis (Columbia UP, 1981).