Sìfēnlǜ shānbǔ suíjī jiémó shū jìyuán jì 四分律刪補隨機羯磨疏濟緣記
Records of Bridge-the-Causes: Sub-commentary on the Karman-text Commentary of the Sìfēnlǜ by 道宣 (Dàoxuān, 疏), 元照 (Yuánzhào, 記), 禪能 (Zenno, 合會)
About the work
A combined-reading edition of Dàoxuān’s (道宣) Sìfēnlǜ shānbǔ suíjī jiémó shū 四分律刪補隨機羯磨疏 (KR6k0019) and Yuánzhào’s (元照, 1048–1116) Jìyuán jì 濟緣記 sub-commentary, integrated by the Japanese Vinaya monk Zenno 禪能 (禪能). The catalog meta records the work as 4卷 but the Manji edition prints it in twenty-two distinct sub-fascicles (juan shàng/zhōng/xià × seven, plus prefatory matter) reflecting the gō-e editorial method, where Dàoxuān’s commentary lemmata are interleaved verse-by-verse with Yuánzhào’s jì gloss.
Prefaces
The Manji edition opens with a Xīnkè rùzhù páikē jiémó shū xù 新刻入註排科羯磨疏序 — the Japanese editor’s preface — that traces the genealogy of the Nánshānlǜ in Japan from Jiànzhēn 鑒真 (Ganjin)‘s arrival at Tiānpíng Shèngbǎo 天平勝寶 (mid-eighth-century) and presents the present gō-e recension as a Japanese Vinaya-school resource. The preface programmatically affirms the inseparability of zhǐchí 止持 (rules of non-doing) and zuòchí 作持 (rules of doing) and identifies Yuánzhào’s Jìyuán jì as the principal Sòng commentary on Dàoxuān’s karman-text manual.
Abstract
The substantive contribution here is Yuánzhào’s Jìyuán jì — the eleventh-century Northern Sòng jì on Dàoxuān’s KR6k0019 Suíjī jiémó shū — which together with his Yèshū jì (commentary on Dàoxuān’s Jièběn shū, KR6k0142) and his Zīchí jì 資持記 (commentary on the Xíngshì chāo) forms the foundational Sòng Nánshān sub-commentary corpus. Yuánzhào’s Jìyuán jì is structurally complementary to Yǔn Kān’s earlier Zhèngyuán jì (KR6k0156) on the same source; the two sub-commentaries together represent the principal Sòng exegetical tradition on Dàoxuān’s karman manual. The gō-e recension presented here was produced in Japan and reached the Manji canon through the Tokugawa-era export of gō-e Vinaya editions to China. The structural index to Yuánzhào’s jì is supplied separately as KR6k0157.
Translations and research
- Funayama Toru 船山徹. Studies on the medieval Sòng Lǜzōng and its reception in Japan.
- Groner, Paul. Saichō: The Establishment of the Japanese Tendai School (1984/2000) — for the larger context of Vinaya transmission to Japan.