Yīnmíng rù zhèng lǐ lùn shū hòu jì 因明入正理論疏後記
Later Notes on the Commentary on the Treatise on Entering Correct Reasoning by 智周 (Zhìzhōu, 撰)
About the work
The companion three-juǎn sub-commentary to Zhìzhōu’s Qián jì KR6o0023, glossing the lower portion of Kuījī’s Dàshū KR6o0008. The opening colophon “樸揚智周撰” identifies the author as “Zhìzhōu of Pǔguāngsì” (樸揚 reads as 普光; the variant orthography reflects an old manuscript spelling). The work runs in parallel structure to the Qián jì: each lemma opens with a Kuījī-quotation and is followed by a brief gloss. Composition is placed in the same period as the Qián jì.
Structural Division
The Xuzangjing recension is not in CANWWW. The work continues the sub-commentary on Kuījī’s commentary KR6o0008.
Abstract
The opening lemma “疏空桑啟聖者” — i.e. Kuījī’s allusion to Confucius’s birthplace at Mount Kōngsāng 空桑 — gives a flavour of the work’s character: Zhìzhōu spends some pains identifying every Chinese literary allusion in Kuījī’s florid preface, citing Yú Bǎo 于寶’s Sōushén jì 搜神記 as the source of the Kǒngzǐ legend. This shows that the Hòu jì is not merely a logical sub-commentary but also a literary and lexical gloss, helpful to the average Táng monastic reader who would have struggled with Kuījī’s Chinese as much as with his Sanskritized Buddhist logic. The body proceeds to gloss the latter portions of Kuījī’s commentary on the Rù lùn’s sections on the four contradictions and the semblances of perception and inference. The Xuzangjing transmits the text from the same Japanese manuscript line as the Qián jì. Composition is c. 700–723.
Translations and research
- Takemura Shōhō 武邑尚邦. Inmyōgaku — sono genri to tenkai 因明學――その原理と展開. Kyoto: Hyakkaen, 1986.
- Shen Jianying 沈剣英. Yīnmíng xué yánjiū 因明學研究. Shanghai, 1985.