Fāngshān Wénbǎo chánshī yǔlù 方山文寶禪師語錄
One-juan yǔlù of Fāngshān Wénbǎo 文寶 方山文寶 (lifedates unrecorded; active mid-to-late 13th c.), dharma-heir of 妙倫 Duànqiáo Miàolún (1201–1261) and subject-master while resident at Ruìyán Jìngtǔ chánsì 瑞巖淨土禪寺 in Táizhōu. Xuzangjing X70 n1395. Recorded by his dharma-heirs 先覩 Xiāndǔ (the later Wújiàn Xiāndǔ, 1265–1334) and 祖燈 Zǔdēng; edited by the sixteenth-generation descendant (at Chǔhuáng Dàshíshān) 機雲 Jīyún. Preface by Zhìān 智安 of Nányuè Dōushuài Biànshān dated Kāngxī xīnwèi (1691) — the preface preserves a fascinating textual history: Wénbǎo’s yǔlù was thought lost until a Tiāntái monk, Mèngfān Cè 夢颿測, travelling through Mt Yànshān in Wēnzhōu, found worm-eaten fragments under the pedestal of an old Buddha image in a ruined monastery. He transcribed what remained (only one or two tenths of the original) and kept it a decade in a box. When the lineage-descendant Huìyuè 晦岳 recognized the ancestral text in 1691 he had a second descendant Miàoyún 妙雲 fund the re-printing. The resulting Kāngxī rénshēn (1692) printing is the text preserved here.