Wànfēng héshàng yǔlù 萬峰和尚語錄
Recorded Sayings of Master Wàn-fēng by 時蔚 (說), 普壽 (集)
Single-juan yǔlù of Wànfēng Shíwèi 時蔚 萬峰時蔚 (1303-10-18 – 1381-03-03, age 79), Yuán-Míng-transition LínjìYángqí dharma-heir of Qiānyán Yuáncháng 千巖元長 (1284–1357). Native of Lèqīng 樂清 (Zhèjiāng), lay surname Jīn 金. Compiled by his fǎsì Pǔshòu 普壽 jí.
The yǔlù documents Shíwèi’s thirty-year career at Sūzhōu Dèngwèishān Shèngēnsì 蘇州鄧蔚山聖恩寺 (commonly called Wànfēng 萬峰), the late-Yuán / early-Míng LínjìYángqí center in the Sūzhōu region. notBefore = ca. 1351 (post-Qiān-yán-acquaintance opening of fǎ); notAfter = 1381 (death). Catalog dynasty 明 — but Shíwèi’s career began in the Yuán and the canonical edition is a Míng reprint. Printed as Jiāxīng Canon J40 B492.
Contents. Single juan: kān … jiùxù 刊…舊序 (“preface to the reprint of the old edition”); Běnjìng jūshì rùshān qiúyǔ shìzhòng (instruction to lay disciple Běnjìng coming up the mountain to seek the dharma); sònggǔ; an extensive fǎyǔ section addressed by name to many Yuán-Míng-transition Chán contemporaries — Xuěshān Xī chánzhǎng 雪山熙長老, Yǎngshān Wúniàn Xué shǒuzuò 仰山無念學首座 (his fǎsì), Rìzhào Huì shǒuzuò 日照慧首座, Bǎofēng Zhēn shǒuzuò 寶峰真首座, Hǔqiū Yuán shǒuzuò 虎丘圓首座, plus image-encomia and other materials.
Tiyao
Not applicable — Jiā-xīng-canon imprint (J40 B492).
Translations and research
- 蕭志濱 etc.: studies on the Qiān-yán Yuán-cháng → Wàn-fēng Shí-wèi Yuán-Míng-transition lineage have been done in Chinese-language scholarship. The Wàn-fēng line is one of the foundational continuities from late-Yuán Hǔ-pǎo Línjì into the Míng-Qīng Mì-yún Yuán-wù revival, since Mì-yún himself traced lineage back to Wàn-fēng.
Other points of interest
The yǔlù is significant within the Jiāxīng Canon as one of the few Yuán-Míng-transition LínjìYángqí yǔlù preserved alongside the predominantly post-1644 cluster. Wànfēng Shíwèi is the great-grandfather (in the lineage sense) of Mìyún Yuánwù 密雲圓悟 (1566–1642) — the foundational figure of the late-Míng Línjì revival; the unbroken line Qiānyán Yuáncháng → Wànfēng Shíwèi → Bǎocáng Pǔchí → Dōngmíng Huìjǎn → Hǎizhōu Cí → Bàoēn Jìn → Tiānqí Běnruì → Wúwén Cōng → Xiàoyán Débǎo continues to Mìyún and then through the entire late-Míng / early-Qīng LínjìYángqí establishment whose yǔlù fills J27–J40 of the Jiāxīng Canon.
Links
- CBETA
- DILA authority: A000933 (時蔚), A001229 (普壽)
- Dharma-teacher: Qiānyán Yuáncháng 千巖元長 (1284–1357)
- Major dharma-grandsons (centuries later): Mìyún Yuánwù 密雲圓悟 and the entire late-Míng / early-Qīng LínjìYángqí establishment