Jìngtǔ quánshū 淨土全書
Complete Book of the Pure Land by 俞行敏 (Yú Xíngmǐn, 重輯)
About the work
A two-juǎn Pure Land anthological compendium re-compiled (chóngjí 重輯) by the mid-Qīng lay-Buddhist scholar 俞行敏 Yú Xíngmǐn 俞行敏. The chóngjí designation indicates that Yú is revising and expanding an earlier compilation rather than producing a freestanding work; the underlying earlier compilation is not separately preserved, though it may be related to the various seventeenth-century quánshū / quánjí anthologies in the Yúnqī Zhūhóng — Zhuāng Guǎng 莊廣 tradition (cf. Jìngtǔ zīliáng quánjí KR6p0065).
Abstract
The two juǎn cover the standard topics of Qīng Pure Land lay-Buddhist anthological scholarship: scriptural foundations from the canonical Pure Land sūtras; doctrinal expositions from the major Pure Land authors; hagiographical exempla and ruìxiāng 瑞相 narrative material; practical instructions on daily niànfó and the deathbed observance; selected devotional verse and prayers. The compass is more compact than 周克 Zhōu Kèfù’s contemporary Jìngtǔ chénzhōng KR6p0091 (10 juǎn) but covers similar ground in a more selective form.
The text is preserved in the Xùzàngjīng 卍續藏 (X1176). No preface fixes a precise composition date; the bracket adopted (1660–1740) covers the most plausible early to mid Qīng period, contemporary with the broader Qīng lay-Buddhist Pure Land anthological tradition.
Translations and research
- No substantial dedicated secondary literature located on the Jìng-tǔ quán-shū itself.
- Goossaert, Vincent. “Late Qing Buddhist Lay Movements.” In Modern Chinese Religion II. Leiden: Brill, 2016.