Zájí lùn shùjì 雜集論述記
Commentary on the Combined Compendium [of Abhidharma] by 窺基 (Kuījī, 撰)
About the work
窺基’s ten-fascicle running commentary on KR6n0082 Dàshèng āpídámó zájí lùn 大乘阿毘達磨雜集論 (T31n1606) — Sthiramati’s interwoven commentary on Asaṅga’s Abhidharmasamuccaya. Surviving in the Xuzangjing (X48n0796); the work was transmitted via Korean and Japanese routes, having effectively been lost in continental China before being recovered for the modern canon. Ten fascicles, covering the běnshì fēn 本事分 (root-events part) of the integrated work systematically, with the juézé fēn 決擇分 (determinative-distinctions part) treated more briefly.
Structural Division
The opening mùcì 目次 (table of contents) preserved in the source enumerates: juǎn 1, běnshì fēn zhōng sānfǎ pǐn dìyī zhī yī (root-events: chapter on the three dharmas, part 1); juǎn 2, the same chapter continued (the xíngyùn 行蘊 / saṃskāra-skandha discussion); etc. CANWWW does not assign internal structure for X48n0796.
Abstract
The Zájí lùn shùjì is one of 窺基’s major systematic commentaries on the principal Yogācāra abhidharma texts. Together with KR6n0026 Chéng wéishí lùn shùjì, KR6n0029 Chéng wéishí lùn zhǎngzhōng shūyào, KR6n0057 Wéishí èrshí lùn shùjì, and KR6n0075 Biàn zhōngbiān lùn shùjì, it constitutes Kuījī’s complete commentarial coverage of the central Yogācāra textual corpus.
The dating bracket (660–682) covers Kuījī’s productive teaching period after the KR6n0082 root + commentary became available in 647 — Kuījī presumably lectured on the work and produced the shùjì during his mature years at the Cí’ēnsì.
The commentary engages systematically with the abhidharma analytical apparatus: the five skandha (with extensive treatment of saṃskāra); the eighteen dhātu and twelve āyatana; the mental factors (caitasika) — particularly the eleven good factors, six fundamental afflictions, and twenty secondary afflictions — and the bodhisattva path-stages. The Cí’ēn analysis of the mental factors is largely transmitted through this shùjì, and the work is the principal source for the technical vocabulary of mental-factor analysis in subsequent East Asian Yogācāra study.
Translations and research
- Yoshimura Makoto 吉村誠. Chūgoku Yuishiki shisōshi kenkyū. Tokyo: Daizō shuppan, 2013.
- Yokoyama Kōitsu 横山紘一. Yuishiki bunken mokuroku. Tokyo: Daizō shuppan, 1988.
- Sponberg, Alan. Meditation in Fa-hsiang Buddhism. PhD diss., Princeton, 1979.