Xíngshì chāo zhūjiā jì biāomù 行事鈔諸家記標目
A Checklist of Sub-commentaries on the Xíngshì chāo by the Various Houses by 慧顯 (Huìxiǎn, 集), 戒月 (Kaigetsu, 改錄)
About the work
A single-fascicle bibliographic checklist of sub-commentaries (jì 記) on Dàoxuān’s (道宣) Sìfēnlǜ shānfán bǔquē xíngshì chāo 四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 (KR6k0017) compiled by the Southern Sòng Vinaya monk Huìxiǎn 慧顯 (慧顯) and revised in Japan by Kaigetsu 戒月 (戒月). The work catalogues the liùshí jiā 六十家 (“sixty houses”) of Tang and Sòng Xíngshì chāo commentary by author and number of juan — a critical bibliographic resource for the medieval Vinaya tradition.
Prefaces
No formal preface; the work opens directly with its first entry: the ten-juan Xíngshì chāo jì (title not preserved) by Zhìrén lǜshī 智仁律師 of Jīngzhào Guāngmíngsì 京兆光明寺 — Huìxiǎn notes this is the first of all Xíngshì chāo sub-commentaries and the inaugural author “from whom the liùshí jiā are reckoned outward”. Entry two records Língchè lǜshī 靈澈律師 of Huìjī Yúnménsì 會稽雲門寺 and his twenty-one-juan Xíngshì chāo yǐnyuán jì 行事鈔引源記.
Abstract
The Biāomù is the principal medieval inventory of the Tang–Sòng Xíngshì chāo commentary tradition and the indispensable resource for reconstructing the liùshí jiā — most of whose works have not survived. Because most Tang Nánshān Vinaya commentary is lost, Huìxiǎn’s catalogue (with Kaigetsu’s gǎilù recension) preserves a list of authors and titles that would otherwise be unrecoverable. Dating: Huìxiǎn is recorded only as a Southern Sòng monk; the bracket here gives the Southern Sòng range. Kaigetsu’s gǎilù belongs to the Tokugawa-era Japanese Manji-canon editorial enterprise.
Translations and research
No substantial secondary literature located.
Other points of interest
The work is the principal source by which scholarship can identify “lost” Tang Xíngshì chāo commentators and is indispensable for reconstruction of the medieval Lǜzōng learning.