Qǐxìn lùn shūjì 起信論疏記
Combined Commentary and Records on the Awakening of Faith by 元曉 (Yuánxiǎo / Wǒnhyo, 疏並別記)
About the work
A six-juǎn combined edition of 元曉 Wǒnhyo’s two Qǐxìn lùn works — the Qǐxìn lùn shū KR6o0101 and the Dàshèng qǐxìn lùn biéjì KR6o0104 — preserved as a unified six-fascicle work in the Wànxùzàngjīng X45n757. The Xùzàngjīng editors have integrated the two texts into a single sub-commentary structure with the biéjì materials inserted at the appropriate points in the running shū.
Structural Division
CANWWW does not register Xùzàngjīng entries directly; the constituent Taishō texts are T44N1844 and T44N1845 (KR6o0101 and KR6o0104), both pointing to the parent KR6o0078 (T32n1666).
Abstract
The Wànxùzàngjīng edition opens with the same Edo-period 元祿 9 (1696) reprint preface — Qǐxìnlùn hǎidōngshū kānxíng xù 起信論海東疏刊行序, signed by Juéyǎn 覺眼 of the Luòdōng Zhìjīmén — that the Taishō shū also carries. This preface narrates the recovery of Wǒnhyo’s commentary in late-seventeenth-century Japan. The body of the work then weaves together the running shū of KR6o0101 with topical excurses drawn from the biéjì of KR6o0104, producing a single integrated reading-text.
The function of the Xùzàngjīng edition is editorial-pedagogical: it makes Wǒnhyo’s full Qǐxìn exegesis available as a single continuous work rather than two separate pieces. Composition of the constituent texts is bracketed by Wǒnhyo’s career, c. 650–686. The Xùzàngjīng editors print it as an independent recension on the basis of a Japanese Edo manuscript witness.
Translations and research
- Muller, A. Charles, ed. Wonhyo’s Philosophy of Mind. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2012. — Treats the shū and bié-jì together.
- Park, Sung-bae. Buddhist Faith and Sudden Enlightenment. Albany: SUNY, 1983.
- Mochizuki Shinkō 望月信亨. Daijō kishin-ron no kenkyū 大乘起信論之研究. Tōkyō, 1922.
- Cho, Sungtaek. The Philosophy of the Mahāyāna Awakening of Faith. Seoul: Hangaek, 1994. (Korean.)
Other points of interest
The Wànxùzàngjīng’s decision to treat the shū and biéjì as a single six-juan composition reflects the late-imperial Japanese understanding of Wǒnhyo’s project as fundamentally unified — an editorial judgment which corresponds to Wǒnhyo’s own internal cross-references in both works.
Links
- CBETA
- DILA Authority (Wǒnhyo): A001056