Yuánjié Yíng chánshī yǔlù 元潔瑩禪師語錄
Recorded Sayings of Chán Master Yuán-jié Yíng by 淨瑩 (說), 智祥 (編)
Ten-juan yǔlù of Yuánjié Jìngyíng 淨瑩 元潔淨瑩 (1612-04-17 – 1672-08-16, age 61, sēnglà 40+), one of the most senior Cáodòng-school masters of the late Míng / early Qīng. Dharma-heir of Ruìbái Míngxuě 瑞白明雪 — the Cáodòng patriarch in the Wúyì Yuánlái 無異元來 → Yǒngjué Yuánxián 永覺元賢 cohort. Native of Wéiyáng Jiāngdū 維揚江都, lay surname Zhuāng 莊. Compiled by his major fǎsì Pínjí Zhìxiáng 智祥 (1637–1709) biān — the same Zhìxiáng whose own yǔlù is KR6q0568.
The yǔlù documents an extraordinary eight-abbacy circuit across the central-eastern arc — opening fǎ at Púqí Yánshòusì 蒲圻延壽寺 in 順治十一年五月 = 1654 lunar 5 (the notBefore anchor); then Hóngdū Níngzhōu Gǔdòngshān Ēnòu chánsì 洪都寧州古洞山阿耨禪寺 (Jiāngxī, 順治癸巳仲秋 = 1653 autumn the lay-patron invitation, 順治甲午四月八日 = 1654-05-23 entry); ChǔPúqí Yùyáshān Shàngfāng chánsì 楚蒲圻玉崖山上方禪寺; Húzhōu Biànshān Lónghuá chánsì 浙江湖州弁山龍華禪寺 (康熙壬寅 = 1662); Guǎnglíng Píngshān Qīlíng chánsì 廣陵平山棲靈禪寺 (維揚 Yángzhōu); Jiāngxī Níngzhōu Yúnyán Wúzhù chánsì 江西寧州雲巖無住禪寺 (re-founded in 1662); Lǐzhōu Yàoshān Cíyún chánsì 澧州藥山慈雲禪寺 (己酉 = 1669); Yuèzhōu Yúnmén Xiǎnshèng chánsì 越州雲門顯聖禪寺; Tāizhōu Tiāntāi Hùguó chánsì 台州天台護國禪寺 (where he had been ordained at age 23). notBefore = 1654 (Púqí opening); notAfter = 1672 (death). Printed as Jiāxīng Canon J39 B453.
Contents. Juan 1: mùlù; Ēnòusì shàngtáng. Juan 2: Shàngfāngsì shàngtáng; Lónghuásì shàngtáng. Juan 3: Píngshānsì shàngtáng; Yúnyánsì shàngtáng. Juan 4: Yàoshānsì shàngtáng. Juan 5: Yúnménsì shàngtáng; Hùguósì shàngtáng. Juan 6: shìzhòng; xiǎocān. Juan 7: pǔshuō; chuíyǔ; dàiyǔ (matching one of the master’s earlier chuíwèn sequences from Kuānglú with eight items, plus eight from Jiànān Guózhǔ 建安國主 directed to the late Bǎizhàng Ruì 百丈瑞 and answered by Yīchū chánrén). Juan 8–10: continuing materials, fóshì, the closing xíngzhuàng and tǎmíng (in juan 10), and the fēndēng listing forty fǎsì.
Tiyao
Not applicable — Jiā-xīng-canon imprint (J39 B453).
Other points of interest
This is one of the major Cáodòng-school yǔlù of the early Qīng — comparable in scale to KR6q0526 (Tiānrán Hánshì) within the same Wúyì Yuánlái → Yǒngjué Yuánxián cohort. Jìngyíng’s eight major abbacies trace a chronological geography that begins in the central-Yangtze (Púqí, Yángzhōu) and culminates in Zhèjiāng’s most prestigious Cáodòng centers (Yúnmén Xiǎnshèng, Tiāntāi Hùguó). The original total yǔlù output (per his tǎmíng) was over 30 juan; this 10-juan canonical edition is a condensed summary.