Chánlín bǎoxùn bǐ shuō 禪林寶訓筆說
Bǐshuō (Brush-Talk) Commentary on the Chánlín bǎoxùn
A three-juan Qing running-commentary on KR6q0099 Chánlín bǎoxùn, composed (shù 述) by 智祥 Zhìxiáng
About the work
A three-juan Qing running-commentary in the bǐ shuō 筆說 (“brush-talk”) informal-prose commentary format. X64 n1266. commentedTextid: KR6q0099. One of the cluster of Qing-period commentaries on the Chánlín bǎoxùn (KR6q0153, KR6q0154, KR6q0155, KR6q0156, and this KR6q0157).
Tiyao
Not a WYG text; no 四庫 tíyào exists.
Abstract
Zhìxiáng 智祥 (1637–1709, DILA A001274), zì Tīngyún 聽雲, hào Pínjí 頻吉 (also Pínjí Zhìxiáng 頻吉智祥); Cáodòng-school dharma-heir of Yuánjié Jìngyíng 元潔淨瑩 (see 智祥 person note for full biography).
Dating bracket: notBefore 1644, notAfter 1720 (working Qing-period bracket). Catalog dynasty 清.
Translations and research
- Yifa. 2002. The Origins of Buddhist Monastic Codes in China. Hawai’i.
Other points of interest
The cluster of five Qing commentaries on the Chánlín bǎoxùn preserved in Xù zàng jīng volume 64 (KR6q0153 through KR6q0157) testifies to the continuing importance of the Chánlín bǎoxùn as pedagogical reference in the late-imperial Chinese monastic curriculum. Each commentator adopts a different editorial format (yīn yì, hé zhù, niān sòng, shùn zhū, bǐ shuō), providing a cross-section of the Chinese late-imperial commentarial genre-ecosystem as applied to a single parent text.