Zīchí jì xùjiě bìng wǔlì jiǎngyì 資持記序解并五例講義
Glosses on the Preface of the Zīchí jì, with the Lecture on the Five Examples by 則安 (Zéān, 述)
About the work
A single-fascicle Northern Sòng pedagogical commentary on the preface (xù) of Yuánzhào’s (元照, 1048–1116) Zīchí jì 資持記 — Yuánzhào’s principal sub-commentary on Dàoxuān’s (道宣) Sìfēnlǜ shānfán bǔquē xíngshì chāo 四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 (KR6k0017) — together with a structured jiǎngyì 講義 lecture-record on the wǔlì 五例 (“five examples”), composed by Zéān 則安 (則安), Yuánzhào’s senior disciple.
Prefaces
The Manji edition opens with an editorial xù (No. 740-A in the source) by a Tokugawa-era Japanese editor (composed yuánlù rénwǔ chūn sānyuè 元祿壬午春三月 = 1702, yuánlù 15) recording that zǐshì mǒu 梓氏某 (a certain printer) brought the Xíngshì chāo Zīchí jì xùjiě bìng wǔlì jiǎngyì to him for collation and that he edited it for Japanese circulation. The editor identifies Yuánzhào — whom Dàoxuān’s tradition calls Dàzhì lǜshī 大智律師 — as xiǎng yú yǐngwù zhī zī, ruìyì yú lǜ 蚤以頴悟之恣銳意于律 (“from his youth, with sharp intelligence and singular intent on the Vinaya”), and records that Yuánzhào surpassed the prior liùshí jiā 六十家 (sixty Tang Xíngshì chāo commentators).
Abstract
The work has two parts: (1) the Xùjiě — phrase-by-phrase glosses on Yuánzhào’s preface to the Zīchí jì — and (2) the Wǔlì jiǎngyì — Zéān’s five-fold pedagogical schema for teaching Yuánzhào’s commentary. As the only surviving direct pedagogical record from Yuánzhào’s immediate disciple-circle, the work is documentarily critical for reconstructing the early-twelfth-century Língzhīsì Nánshānlǜ teaching tradition. Composition postdates Yuánzhào’s death (1116) — Zéān refers to him posthumously — and falls within Zéān’s likely active period.
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