Niān bāfāng zhūyù jí 拈八方珠玉集
Collection of Raised-Up Pearls and Jade from the Eight Directions — a three-juan Southern-Sòng Chán anthology gathering niāngǔ 拈古 (prose-commentaries) on classical cases from across the “eight directions” (bāfāng 八方) of the Chán tradition, re-edited (chóngbiān 重編) by Yúnān Zǔqìng 雲庵祖慶 — dharma-heir of Dàhuì Zōnggǎo 大慧宗杲 in the Línjì-Yángqí line.
About the work
A three-juan Southern-Sòng Chán niāngǔ anthology, X67 n1310. Non-commentary; commentedTextid omitted.
The title’s imagery of zhūyù 珠玉 (“pearls and jade”) being niān (“raised up” / “picked up”) from bāfāng (“eight directions”) evokes the anthology-compiler’s role: gathering the choicest commentarial responses (the “pearls and jade”) from the full geographic-and-temporal range of Chán transmission (the “eight directions”).
Abstract
Yúnān Zǔqìng 雲庵祖慶: Southern-Sòng Línjì-Yángqí Chán master. Hào Yúnān 雲庵 (“Cloud-Hermitage”); also Jìngshān Zǔqìng 徑山祖慶. Seventeenth-generation Línjì descendant (Dàjiàn xià dì shí qī shì 大鑑下第十七世). Dharma-heir of Dàhuì Zōnggǎo (1089–1163). Active at Nányuán 南源, Dàolín 道林, Zhōngshān 鍾山, and finally Wújiāng Shèngshòu 吳江聖壽 (from 1257 at Bǎoyòu 5). Wrote the colophon to the Pǔjué Zōnggǎo chánshī yǔlù in 1190 (Shàoxī 1).
Dating: notBefore 1190 (Zǔqìng’s Zōnggǎo-colophon date, establishing his mature-career horizon); notAfter 1257 (his Wújiāng Shèngshòu residency).