Tiáoshí jūshì zhèng yuán lù 調實居士證源錄
Testifying-the-Source Record of the Tuning-Reality Layman
A one-juan Qīng lay-Chán teaching-record by the layman Lù Yīng 陸瑛 (zì Qīnhuá 欽華; hào Tiáoshí jūshì 調實居士 “Tuning-Reality Layman”), native of Dānghú 當湖 (Jiāxīng area, Zhèjiāng). Dharma-heir of Jīnmíng Jiè lǎorén 金明介老人. Compiled by Luó Jīchè 羅機徹; prefaced by Luó Kāilín 羅開驎 in Kāngxī 30 (xīnwèi 辛未) = 1691 autumn, plus an anonymous second preface.
About the work
A one-juan lay-Buddhist Chán teaching-record, J38 B416. Non-commentary; commentedTextid omitted. Preserves Lù Yīng’s sermons, sòng gǔ 頌古 (ancient-case verse-commentaries), and teaching-responses to disciples. The preface frames the work as a late-Kāngxī-era lay-Chán intervention against the “jiē shēng fù hé 隨聲附和” (“merely echoing others”) tendency of the contemporary Chán scene.
Abstract
Lù Yīng 陸瑛 (zì Qīnhuá 欽華; lifedates unrecorded): late-17th-century lay Chán teacher of the Dānghú area. “Hùn jì xuān qí, qián xīn zōng chéng 混跡軒岐潛心宗乘” (“Mixed his traces with medical practice [xuān qí = the medical profession, from Huángdì and Qíbó], secretly applying his mind to Chán doctrine”). Received formal dharma-recognition (shòu jì bié 受記莂) from Jīnmíng Jiè lǎorén 金明介老人 and was recognised as a “close-room disciple” (rù shì gāo zú 入室高足).
Compiler Luó Jīchè 羅機徹, preface-writer Luó Kāilín 羅開驎 (tóng mén fǎ dì 同門法弟 “dharma-brother of the same lineage-gate”): two brothers / lineage-brothers from the same Dānghú circle; likely fellow lay-Chán practitioners in Lù Yīng’s community.
Dating: notBefore c. 1670 (Lù Yīng’s mature teaching-period); notAfter 1691 (preface-date).
Translations and research
- No substantial study located specifically on J38 B416.
Other points of interest
The Zhèng yuán lù is part of a distinctive late-17th-century pattern of lay Chán teachers producing substantial canonical teaching-records. Paralleling works like Xú Chāngzhì’s Wúyī dàorén lù KR6q0192, Xiàng Zhēnběn’s Jiū xīn lù KR6q0202, and Bào Zōngzhào’s Tiān yuè míng kōng jí KR6q0185, Lù Yīng’s text exemplifies the serious lay-Buddhist teaching-role that had emerged by the late Kāngxī period.