Pǔtuó liè zǔ lù 普陀列祖錄
Record of Successive Patriarchs of Pǔtuó
compiled by 通旭 Tōngxù, early Qīng
About the work
A one-juan early-Qīng monastic-lineage record documenting the successive abbots and notable masters of Pǔtuóshān 普陀山, the island monastery complex off the Zhèjiāng coast dedicated to the bodhisattva Guānyīn 觀音. Compiled by Tōngxù, a Chán monk associated with Pǔtuóshān.
Abstract
A compact monastery-specific succession record, giving short biographies of Pǔtuóshān abbots from the Sòng onward. Useful as a sectarian-institutional source; Pǔtuóshān was one of the Four Famous Buddhist Mountains 四大名山 of late-imperial China, and its abbacy record is a good index of shifts in institutional Chán affiliation during the Míng-Qīng period.
Translations and research
No English translation. Used as a primary source in studies of Pǔtuóshān’s institutional history (Chün-fang Yü, Kuan-yin: The Chinese Transformation of Avalokiteśvara, Columbia UP, 2001).
Other points of interest
A rare example of a monastery-specific lamp-record genre rather than the more common national or regional genealogical records.