Chéng wéishí lùn zhǎngzhōng shūyào jì 成唯識論掌中樞要記
Notes on the Essential Pivot in the Palm: Compendium of the Demonstration of Consciousness-Only by 智周 (Zhìzhōu, 述)
About the work
A single-fascicle sub-commentary by 智周 (678–733) on Kuījī’s KR6n0029 Chéng wéishí lùn zhǎngzhōng shūyào (T43n1831). Preserved in the Xuzangjing (X49n0810). The text glosses Kuījī’s compendious presentation of the topical-doctrinal organisation of the Chéng wéishí lùn, providing additional citations from the master treatise itself (KR6n0016) and from the lemma-by-lemma KR6n0026 shùjì.
Structural Division
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Abstract
The text is one of 智周’s several short sub-commentaries on Kuījī’s Cí’ēn corpus, alongside KR6n0036 Chéng wéishí lùn liǎoyì dēng jì on Huìzhāo’s liǎoyì dēng and KR6n0032 yǎnmì on the master treatise itself. Together these works trace the second-generation Cí’ēn reading of T1585: where Kuījī’s commentaries set out the basic doctrinal framework, Zhìzhōu’s sub-commentaries refine technical details and resolve emerging interpretive disputes within the school.
The dating bracket (700–733) follows Zhìzhōu’s productive teaching period.
Translations and research
- Yoshimura Makoto 吉村誠. Chūgoku Yuishiki shisōshi kenkyū. Tokyo: Daizō shuppan, 2013.
- Sponberg, Alan. Meditation in Fa-hsiang Buddhism. PhD diss., Princeton, 1979.