Sìfēnlǜ xíngshì chāo kē 四分律行事鈔科
Structural Outline of the Sìfēnlǜ Compendium of Practical Affairs by 元照 (Yuánzhào, 錄)
About the work
A three-fascicle structural-outline (kē 科) of Dàoxuān’s (道宣) Sìfēnlǜ shānfán bǔquē xíngshì chāo 四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 (KR6k0017) by Yuánzhào 元照 (元照, 1048–1116), the Northern Sòng Língzhīsì 靈芝寺 Nánshānlǜ revivalist. Author signature: 餘杭郡沙門釋 元照 錄 (Recorded by Yuánzhào, monk of Yúháng commandery). The kē serves as the structural index for Yuánzhào’s principal substantive sub-commentary on the Xíngshì chāo, the Zīchí jì 資持記 (in the Manji canon as X41 etc.).
Prefaces
No separate preface; the kē opens directly with the three-fold structural division xù yuán fāqǐ 敘緣發起 (narrative cause and origin) — zhèngmíng zōngtǐ 正明宗體 (right exposition of school-substance) — liútōng 流通 (transmission), and proceeds piān-by-piān through every nested subdivision of the Xíngshì chāo.
Abstract
The Kē is the structural counterpart to Yuánzhào’s Zīchí jì on the Xíngshì chāo; together with the Kē on the Suíjī jiémó shū (KR6k0157) and the Kē on the Hánzhù jièběn shū (in KR6k0144), it forms the late-eleventh-century Língzhīsì programme of structural-philological work on Dàoxuān’s three principal Sìfēnlǜ commentaries. These structural outlines became the dominant pedagogical tool for the Sòng-period Lǜzōng and were exported to Japan and Korea as part of the Sòng Vinaya curriculum. Composition belongs to Yuánzhào’s mature period (post-1075).
Translations and research
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