天王水鑑海和尚六會錄

Tiānwáng Shuǐjiàn Hǎi héshàng liùhuì lù 天王水鑑海和尚六會錄

Six-Assembly Record of Venerable Shuǐ-jiàn Hǎi of Tiān-wáng[-sì] by 慧海 (說), 原澂 (等編)

About the work

Ten-juan six-assembly (liùhuì 六會) yǔlù of Shuǐjiàn Huìhǎi 慧海 水鑑慧海 — the restorer of Jīngzhōu Tiānwáng Chánsì 荊州天王禪寺 (ancestral seat of the Táng-era Tiānwáng Dàowù 天王道悟) and master of Fǎlán Yuánchéng 法瀾原澂 (at KR6q0439). Fǎhuì 法諱 Huìhǎi 慧海, hào Shuǐjiàn 水鑑 (“Water-Mirror”), late-life hào Jìngtài 敬太 (per the KR6q0439 reference “敬太海老和尚”). Dharma-heir of Dúguàn Jìng chánshī 獨冠敬禪師 — a Mìyún Yuánwù dharma-heir who had trained at Tiāntóng under Mi-yun and later sealed his own transmission through Jìngshān Róng 徑山容 (= Fèiyǐn Tōngróng 費隱通容 at Jìngshān) per the opening preface’s detailed genealogy. 33rd-generation Línjì in the Mìyún → Dúguàn → Huìhǎi succession. Compiled (děng biān 等編) by his dharma-heir Yuánchéng 原澂 原澂 (whose own yǔlù is the paired KR6q0439). Non-commentary; commentedTextid omitted. Printed as Jiāxīng Canon J29 B230.

Abstract

Training and sealing (pre-1658). Shuǐjiàn Huìhǎi was tonsured at 20; initial scripture-lecture training. Decisive awakening on scripture-reading (“tǐjiū xìngyuán, huàrán kāiwù 體究性源劃然開悟”). Sealed by Dúguàn Jìng 獨冠敬, Mi-yun-line dharma-heir. Per the 古風行然 opening preface: “gōng zhī chūxīng yú shì jiē sù chéng yuànlì, wèi fǎ wàng xíng 公之出興於世皆宿乘願力為法忘形” — his career is framed as an aspirational (yuànlì) commitment to the Línjì-revival mission.

Six abbacies (1658–1690). (1) Tiěfósì 鐵佛寺 — 戊戌 = 1658: first public teaching. (2) Jīngzhōu Tiānwáng Chánsì 荊州天王禪寺 — primary abbacy, the central seat of his career. Restored the Táng-era Tiānwáng Dàowù seat from Míng-Qīng-transition devastation. (3) Huánglóngsì 黃龍寺 — restoration. (4) Dìzàngsì 地藏寺 — restoration. (5) Hǎiyán Jīnsù Guǎnghuìsì 金粟廣慧寺 — entered c. 丙辰 = 1676 on the petition of Jiāhé yǐn Lú Chóngxìng 嘉禾尹盧崇興 and Wǔyuán lìng Zhāng Sùrén 武原令張素仁; the Mìyún ancestral seat (“Tiānwáng Wù gùzhǐ, miǎnlì fùxīng 天王悟故址勉力復興” — restoration-abbacy at the Mi-yun founding-site). (6) Qīxián Chánsì 棲賢禪寺 — later abbacy.

1676 Jiāxīng Canon submission. Per the Gǔfēng preface: “bǐngchén Wǔlín fāntái Shìzhēn Lǐ gōng chuánxí Jiāhé yǐn Chóngxìng Lú gōng yǐ gōng yǔlù shí juǎn sòng bā Léngyán 丙辰武林藩臺士楨李公傳檄嘉禾尹崇興盧公以公語錄十卷送八楞嚴”. Translation: In 1676, Zhèjiāng fāntái 藩臺 Lǐ Shìzhēn 李士楨 issued a directive to the Jiāhé county-magistrate Lú Chóngxìng 盧崇興 to submit Huìhǎi’s 10-juan yǔlù to the Léngyán Canon (the Jiāxīng Canon project at Jiāxīng Léngyánsì). This is the original 10-juan cutting. Additional post-1676 material was assembled as 六會餘錄 六會餘錄 (six-assembly supplement) and re-integrated with the original in 庚午 夏 1690, with Gǔfēng preface dated Kāngxī 29 / 1690 lunar 6.15 = ~22 July 1690.

Compositional history. Two front-prefaces preserved:

1. Gǔfēng Xíngrán 古風行然 (鴛湖古風 at 古杭太璞山東蓮寺), dated Kāngxī 29 庚午 6.15 = 1690-07-22 — the re-integrated 1690 edition’s preface.
2. Yè Nánshēng 葉南生 (Húguǎng Jīngzhōufǔ tuīguān 荊州府推官), dated Shùnzhì 16 己亥 上元日 = Shùnzhì 16 / 1659 lunar 1.15 = ~6 February 1659 — a much earlier preface for an initial Tiān-wáng-sì-period cutting, preserved in the integrated 1690 volume.

notBefore = 1658 (戊戌 Tiěfó first-teaching); notAfter = 1690 (庚午 Gǔfēng preface for the integrated 10-juan + yúlù).

Contents. The 10 juan organize 6-abbacy shàngtáng plus various ancillary sections; detailed mu-lu not fully extracted from my reading. The juan 1 material primarily covers Tiānwáng Chánsì corpus.

Tiyao

Not applicable — this is a Jiā-xīng-canon imprint (J29 B230), not a WYG text. Two dated front-prefaces (1659, 1690) across a 31-year window provide unusually long compositional documentation summarized under Abstract.

Translations and research

• Cáo Yǎn 曹炎 (ed.), 《湖北佛教史》. Tiān-wáng-sì restoration history including Huì-hǎi’s c. 1658–1680s primary tenure.
• Zhāng Rén-lín 張仁霖 studies on the Jīng-zhōu Qīng Buddhist revival.
• No Western-language treatment.

Other points of interest

• Pair with KR6q0439. KR6q0440 (master Huìhǎi’s yǔlù, 10 juan) and KR6q0439 (dharma-son Yuánchéng’s yǔlù, 2 juan) form a paired teacher-student textual monument for the Jīngzhōu Chán restoration. The sequential J29 B229–B230 Jiāxīng numbering reflects their intended pairing: Yuánchéng’s own yǔlù (1673-dated Wáng Cáidǐng preface) precedes his master’s yǔlù (cut initially 1676 with Yè Nánshēng 1659 preface preserved, re-integrated 1690 with Gǔfēng preface). This is one of the clearest master-student yǔlù pairings in the J28–J29 Jiāxīng cluster.
• 1676 imperial-administrative submission of yǔlù. The 1676 directive from Zhèjiāng fāntái Lǐ Shìzhēn through the Jiāhé magistrate for the submission of Huìhǎi’s yǔlù to the Léngyán Canon is a specific documented example of Qīng civil-administrative mediation of Chán yǔlù cutting. Lǐ Shìzhēn (= Lǐ Shìxiǎn / Shìzhēn 李士禎, 1619–1694) was a senior Qīng official who later served as Guǎngdōng governor and sponsored the early Hǎiyǎn hǎifáng 海防 scholarship. His role as administrative-patron for Huìhǎi’s yǔlù is a lesser-known element of his cultural-patronage record.
• Jīnsù abbacy as Mìyún-ancestral restoration. Huìhǎi’s 1676 entry at Jīnsù Guǎnghuìsì — the Mìyún Yuánwù ancestral seat — represents a late-Kāng-xī Mi-yun-line institutional recovery of the ancestral site, continuing the post-war reset of Mìyún’s primary dharma-seats. The Jīnsù abbacy follows the earlier 1640s–60s tenure of Bǎichī Yuán (at KR6q0421) who held the same seat 1648–53.

Links

• CBETA
• Dharma-teacher: Dúguàn Jìng 獨冠敬 (Mi-yun-line heir; separate Kanripo text not cataloged).
• Grand-teacher: 圓悟 Mìyún Yuánwù.
• Principal dharma-heir and compiler: Fǎlán Yuánchéng (at KR6q0439).
• Paired companion-volume: KR6q0439 《法瀾澂禪師語錄》 — Yuánchéng’s own yǔlù.
• Preface-writers: Gǔfēng Xíngrán 古風行然 (1690-07-22); Yè Nánshēng 葉南生 (1659-02-06).
• Administrative patron: Lǐ Shìzhēn 李士禎 (1619–1694, Zhèjiāng fāntái who directed the 1676 Jiāxīng Canon submission).