Qiáoyǐn Wùyì chánshī yǔlù 樵隱悟逸禪師語錄
Sayings-Record of Chán Master Qiáoyǐn Wùyì — a two-juan early-Yuán Línjì yǔlù of Qiáoyǐn Wùyì 悟逸 樵隱悟逸 (d. 1334/1335 per DILA A015504), a Yángqí-branch Línjì monk of Xuěfēng. Compiled by his attendant 正定 Zhèngdìng.
About the work
Two-juan yǔlù in Xuzangjing X70 n1385. Juan 1 opens with the record of his second tenure at Xuěfēng Chóngshèng chánsì 雪峰崇聖禪寺 in Fúzhōu, entered on Yányòu 1.intercalary-3.1 (7 April 1314) under imperial appointment. Juan 2 contains fǎyǔ 法語, tíbá 題䟦, jìsòng 偈頌, and fóshì 佛事 (funeral and consecration addresses).
Abstract
Per DILA A015504, Wùyì (hào Qiáoyǐn 樵隱 “Woodcutter-Recluse”; surname Niè 聶) was a native of Huáiān 懷安 in Fújiàn. He held the Xuěfēng abbacy twice — the extant yǔlù covers only the second tenure, beginning in 1314. Internal evidence: the opening shēngzuò burns incense “for the reigning emperor” and for the Central Secretariat, the Xuānzhèng yuàn (Buddhist Affairs Bureau), and the Fújiàndào circuit provincial officials, mapping onto the Yuán administrative structure of 1314. His verse and occasional prose (juan 2) include poems for named monks travelling to the Zhèjiāng circuit and for contemporary literati — pointing to an active correspondence network between Fújiàn Xuěfēng and the Jiāngnán monastic community. Compilation plausibly within a decade of his death; the DILA dating window 1334/1335 is the upper bound. Wùyì stands in the continuing Xuěfēng line running from 可湘 Juéàn Kěxiāng (1206–1290) through the mid-Yuán.
Translations and research
No substantial secondary literature located. Treated in passing in gazetteer-based studies of the Xuě-fēng tradition (e.g., Chì-jiàn Jìng-cí-sì zhì 勅建淨慈寺志 j.9).