Lángyá Huìjué chánshī yǔlù (xù) 瑯琊慧覺禪師語錄(序)

Preface to the Sayings-Record of Chán Master Lángyá Huìjué — a one-juan preface-only text for the yǔlù of the Northern-Sòng master Lángyá Huìjué 瑯琊慧覺, one of the major contemporaries of Shíshuāng Chǔyuán in the Línjì line. Written by his disciple (cānxué 參學) Yòngsūn 用孫. The main body of the yǔlù proper is not preserved in this catalog-entry; only the preface.

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A one-juan preface-only text preserving a Northern-Sòng yǔlù-preface, X69 n1339. Non-commentary; commentedTextid omitted.

Lángyá Huìjué 瑯琊慧覺: Northern-Sòng Línjì-lineage master. Lifedates unrecorded; dharma-heir of Fényáng Shànzhāo 汾陽善昭 (947–1024). One of the second-generation Línjì masters active between Shànzhāo and Shíshuāng Chǔyuán.

Dating: notBefore c. 1050 (Huìjué’s mature teaching-years); notAfter c. 1100.