Qiánnán huìdēng lù 黔南會燈錄
Combined Lamp Record of Southern Qián
compiled by 如純 Rúchún, preface dated 1673 (Qīng Kāngxī 12)
About the work
An eight-juan regional Chán lamp record covering the Guìzhōu 貴州 (“Qián” 黔) tradition, compiled by the local monk Rúchún in the early Kāngxī era. One of the smaller regional Chán genealogical records, documenting the Buddhist communities of a province conventionally considered peripheral to the main Chinese Chán traditions.
Abstract
Guìzhōu Chán received substantial attention in the seventeenth century partly as a consequence of the late-Míng migration of Chán figures into the southwest during the Míng-Qīng transition, documented by 陳垣 Chén Yuán in his Míngjì Diān-Qián Fójiào kǎo 明季滇黔佛教考 明季滇黔佛教考 (1940). The Qiánnán huìdēng lù is a contemporary insider compilation of the same tradition.
Translations and research
No English translation. Essential context in 陳垣 Chén Yuán, Míngjì Diān-Qián Fójiào kǎo 明季滇黔佛教考 (1940), a foundational study of late-Míng Buddhism in Yúnnán and Guìzhōu. Discussed in surveys of regional Chinese Buddhist history.
Other points of interest
Regional lamp records for the southwest (the Qiánnán huìdēng lù for Guìzhōu; the Jǐnjiāng chándēng (KR6q0035) for Sìchuān) are the principal insider witnesses to the Míng-Qīng Buddhist reconfiguration of the southwestern provinces.