Sìfēnlǜ xíngshì chāo jiǎnzhèng jì 四分律行事鈔簡正記
Plain-and-Correct Records on the Sìfēnlǜ Compendium of Practical Affairs by 景霄 (Jǐngxiāo, 纂)
About the work
A seventeen-fascicle Five-Dynasties (Hòu-Táng) jì sub-commentary on Dàoxuān’s (道宣) Sìfēnlǜ shānfán bǔquē xíngshì chāo 四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 (KR6k0017) by Jǐngxiāo 景霄 (景霄), the leading Wú-Yuè 吳越 Vinaya master under royal patronage. The work is conventionally referred to simply as Jiǎnzhèng 簡正 (“Plain and Correct”).
Prefaces
The Manji edition opens with a mùcì 目次. Each juan is keyed to specific lemmata of the parent Xíngshì chāo, beginning with Lìzhāng liàojiǎn 立章料簡 (“establishing chapter divisions and selective abstracts”) and continuing through the Pànshì kētiáo 判釋科條 (“judging and glossing sections and articles”) of juan 2.
Abstract
The Jiǎnzhèng jì is one of the most extensive surviving Tang/Five-Dynasties Nánshān sub-commentaries on the Xíngshì chāo and the principal late-Tang scholarly bridge between the early-Tang Dàoxuān-and-disciples generation and the Sòng-period revival under Yǔn Kān (允堪) and Yuánzhào (元照). Jǐngxiāo’s career falls into the Wú-Yuè royal sphere of patronage, which preserved Buddhist scholarship through the post-Huìchāng disruptions of the late ninth century and the early tenth-century interregnum. The dating bracket here corresponds to Jǐngxiāo’s mature period at Línān and Běitǎsì, before and around the Tiānchéng 2 (927) appointment recorded in his biography.
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