Huánxī Wéiyī chánshī yǔlù 環溪惟一禪師語錄
Sayings-Record of Chán Master Huánxī Wéiyī — a two-juan late-Southern-Sòng / early-Yuán yǔlù of Huánxī Wéiyī 惟一 環溪惟一 (1202–1281), dharma-heir of 師範 Wújùn Shīfàn. Compiled by his cānxué disciple 覺此 Juécǐ.
About the work
Two-juan yǔlù in Xuzangjing X70 n1388. Preface by Kàngshān Yùsǒu Zhāng Jiàn 章鑑 (zì Yùsǒu 寓叟) dated guǐwèi Buddha-bathing day (8 April 1283) — a dated preface by the prominent scholar-official Zhāng Jiàn (1214–1294), formerly a chancellor under Duānzōng. Nine successive abbacy records: Jiànníng Ruìyán 瑞嚴, Línjiāngjūn Ruìhuángshān Huìlì 瑞篁山惠力, Lóngxìng Lètán Bǎofēng 泐潭寶峰, Lóngxìng Huánglóngshān Chóngēn 黃龍崇恩, Jiànchāngjūn Zīshèng 資聖, Ruìzhōu Huángbòshān Bàoēn Guāngxiào 黃檗報恩光孝, Yuánzhōu Yǎngshān Tàipíng Xīngguó 仰山太平興國, Fúzhōu Xuěfēng Chóngshèng 雪峰崇聖, and (the longest) Qìngyuán Tàibáimíngshān Tiāntóng Jǐngdé 天童景德 — followed in juan 2 by xiǎocān, niāngǔ, sònggǔ, pǔshuō, fǎyǔ, and fózǔ zàn.
Abstract
Per DILA A001060 and the xíngzhuàng appended here: Wéiyī (hào Huánxī 環溪 “Ring-Brook”), native of Zīzhōu 資州 in Shǔ, received dharma-transmission from Wújùn Shīfàn at Jìngshān. He held nine abbacies across the JiāngZhèFújiàn region, concluding at Tiāntóng, the major Mǐngzhōu seat. He lived into the early Yuán conquest and died in Zhìyuán 18 (1281) shì 80; his yǔlù was therefore compiled in the first years after his death. Zhāng Jiàn’s preface, written only two years after Wéiyī’s death from the same kàngshān retreat where the two had known each other at Huánglóng — “I remember Huánxī in his Huánglóng days, visiting me in the mountains, silent and sparing of speech” — insists that the yǔlù format is somewhat otiose for so taciturn a master, but acknowledges that the words are now all that remain.
Translations and research
No substantial secondary literature located. Wéi-yī is treated in passing in studies of the Wújùn line and in Japanese scholarship on late-Sòng Línjì transitions into the Yuán.