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嵩山野竹禪師錄

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Text ID
KR6q0438
Date
1650–1665
Dynasty
清

Sōngshān Yězhú chánshī lù 嵩山野竹禪師錄

Record of Chán Master Yě-zhú of Sōng-shān by 福慧 (說), 宗宏 (錄), 宗上 (編), 宗堅仝 (編)

About the work

Fourteen-juan yǔlù of Sōngshān Yězhú Fúhuì 福慧 嵩山野竹福慧 — the principal Qīng-era Chán mission-founder in Yúnnán and dharma-heir of Shānhuī Bì 山暉璧 (at KR6q0437) in the Pòshān Hǎimíng → Yuánliáo → Shānhuī Sichuan-Guì-Yún Chán transmission-branch. Fǎhuì 法諱 Fúhuì 福慧, hào Sōngshān Yězhú 嵩山野竹 (“Wild-Bamboo of Sōngshān”; the Sōngshānyuàn 嵩山禪院 is in Yúnnán, at Kūnmíng — not the north-central China Sōngshān). Native of Yúzhōu 渝州 (Chóngqìng) per his own self-identification in the KR6q0437 preface (“Yúzhōu ménrén Fúhuì 渝州門人福慧”). Compiled by dharma-heir Zōnghóng 宗宏 宗宏 (recorder) and co-editors Zōngshàng 宗上 宗上 (who also co-edited his master’s KR6q0437) and Zōngjiān 宗堅仝 宗堅 (the 仝 character may be an 同 variant, i.e. “Zōngjiān 同 (editor)” “together” with Zōngshàng). Non-commentary; commentedTextid omitted. Printed as Jiāxīng Canon J29 B224.

Abstract

Nine-abbacy Yúnnán mission-network (c. 1650–65). The juan-structure documents eight or nine distinct Yúnnán abbacies plus re-residences:

(1) Yúnnánfǔ Cíyún Chányuàn 雲南府慈雲禪院 (Kūnmíng) — first abbacy, the yǔlù’s opening corpus; (2) Ménghuàfǔ Zhúlín Chányuàn 蒙化府竹林禪院 (modern Wèishān 巍山, western Yúnnán); (3) Shùnníngfǔ Yúnzhōu Wǔfú Chányuàn 順寧府雲州五福禪院 (modern Féngqìng 鳳慶, southwestern Yúnnán near Myanmar); (4) Shùnníngfǔ Shùzōngshān Shànfǎ Chányuàn 順寧府樹宗山善法禪院; (5) 再住五福禪院 Wǔfú re-residence; (6) 再住慈雲禪院 Cíyún re-residence; (7) Yúnnánfǔ Sōngshān Chányuàn 雲南府嵩山禪院 (Kūnmíng, the seat-hào); (8) Yúnnánfǔ Fùmínxiàn Wòlóngshān Fǎhuá Chányuàn 富民縣臥龍山法華禪院 (north Kūnmíng); (9) Chéngjiāngfǔ Lùnánzhōu Mílè Chányuàn 澂江府潞南州彌勒禪院 (modern Chéngjiāng / Mílè 彌勒 southeast of Kūnmíng); (10) 再住嵩山禪院 Sōngshān re-residence (the final abbacy).

The network spans the entire Yúnnán plateau from the Yúnnánfǔ capital (modern Kūnmíng) west to Ménghuà / Shùnníng (Wèishān / Féngqìng — the Dàlǐ 大理 region) and south to Chéngjiāng / Mílè. Fúhuì’s mission-career is the single most substantial Qīng-era Chán-institutional establishment in Yúnnán, parallel to his dharma-brother Shānhuī Bì’s contemporary Guìzhōu network.

Compositional history. The opening preface (unsigned) is by a Yúnnán dharma-disciple reporting meetings with Fúhuì at 沙橋 (Shāqiáo) in 戊戌臘底 = late 1658 winter and at 昆池 (Dian-chi, Kūnmíng) in 庚子春 = 1660 spring. The preface dates the yǔlù’s completion to 乙巳 = Kāngxī 4 / 1665 (“乙巳門人編錄成”). notBefore = 1650 conservatively (c. when Fúhuì began his Yúnnán mission after training with Shānhuī); notAfter = 1665 (editorial completion).

Contents by juan. (j.1–3) shàngtáng 上堂 across the 9-10 abbacies (3 juan); (j.4) wǎncān 晚參 + xiǎocān 小參; (j.5) shìzhòng 示眾 + jīyuán 機緣 + pǔshuō 普說; (j.6) niāngǔ 拈古 + sònggǔ 頌古; (j.7) yuánliú sòng 源流頌 + mùniú sòng 牧牛頌 (ox-herding verse set) + fózǔ zàn 佛祖贊 + zìzàn 自贊 + shūwèn 書問; (j.8) fǎyǔ 法語; (j.9–14) additional material (mu-lu truncated in my reading).

Tiyao

Not applicable — this is a Jiā-xīng-canon imprint (J29 B224), not a WYG text. The unsigned front-preface (1665) provides the compositional documentation summarized under Abstract.

Translations and research

  • Qí Lǐ-jiā 齊立家 and regional Yún-nán Buddhist-history studies (《雲南佛教史》 雲南佛教史 modern reprints). Fú-huì’s 9-abbacy Yún-nán network is documented in passing but has not received dedicated monograph-level treatment.
  • Yǒng Hé (ed.), 《破山海明禪師研究》 (2013) — brief reference to the Fú-huì Yún-nán sub-branch.
  • No Western-language treatment.

Other points of interest

  • Founder of institutional Chán in Yúnnán. Together with Shānhuī Bì’s Guìzhōu network at KR6q0437, Fúhuì’s Yúnnán mission-program constitutes the Qīng-era Sichuan-Pò-shān / Yuánliáo sub-line’s southwestern-frontier establishment. The two dharma-brothers divided the southwest: Shānhuī took Guìzhōu, Fúhuì took Yúnnán. Both sub-lineages traced back to Yuánliáo → Pòshān Hǎimíng → Mìyún Yuánwù.
  • Yúnnán frontier Chán and the Wú Sānguì 吳三桂 overlord context. Fúhuì’s 1650s–60s Yúnnán mission overlapped with the Wú Sānguì 吳三桂 (1612–78) regional governor-overlord period. Wú Sānguì ruled Yúnnán as Qīng Pínxī Wáng 平西王 from 1660 to 1673, administering a quasi-autonomous domain. Fúhuì’s 8–9-abbacy network would have required coordinating with the Wú administration; by 1673, Wú’s rebellion initiated the Three Feudatories War. Fúhuì’s 1665 yǔlù cutting pre-dates the revolt but operates within Wú’s already-autonomous patronage-framework.
  • Ox-herding verse set (juan 7). The 牧牛頌 牧牛頌 ox-herding-verse section at juan 7 is the standard 10-panel Chán pedagogy; its inclusion within a Yúnnán frontier yǔlù reflects the didactic-popular register of Fúhuì’s mission approach — the ox-herding sequence was particularly suited to introducing Chán to non-Hàn Yúnnán populations.

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