Huànyǒu Chuán chánshī yǔlù 幻有傳禪師語錄
Recorded Sayings of Chán Master Huàn-yǒu Chuán by 圓悟 (等編), 圓修 (等編)
Ten-juan yǔlù of Lóngchí Huànyǒu Zhèngchuán 正傳 龍池幻有正傳 (1549 – 1614-03-21, age 66), the foundational late-Míng LínjìYángqí lineage-restorer from whom the entire Mìyún → Línyě / Tiānyǐn / Wànrú establishment descends. Native of Lìyáng 溧陽 (Jiāngsū). Compiled jointly by his two greatest fǎsì: Mìyún Yuánwù 圓悟 (1566–1642) and Tiānyǐn Yuánxiū 圓修 (1575–1635) děng biān. The catalog source-edition is the Qiánlóng Edition of the canon (Vol. 153 No. 1637), but the work is also preserved in the Jiā-xīng-canon supplement.
notBefore ≈ 1580 (post-mature-abbacy); notAfter ≈ 1620 (post-Yuán-wù’s editorial completion, several years after Huànyǒu’s 1614 death). The compilation by Mìyún Yuánwù — soon to become the most influential LínjìYángqí abbot of his generation — makes this yǔlù the foundational textual document of the entire late-Míng LínjìYángqí revival. Catalog dynasty 明.
Contents. Juan 1: preface (by Shǐ Yī 史一, possibly Shǐ Sìmìng 史孟麟); mùcì; Nánlù 南錄 (southern abbacy records). Juan 2: Běilù 北錄 (northern abbacy records). Juan 3–5: Xiántán 閒談 (idle conversations) — preceded by two prefaces by Shǐ Sān 史三 and a second-edition preface; followed by Wǎnhuà 晚話 (evening talks); the master’s deathbed mòhòu jì bìng yǔ 末後偈并語; rùtǎ yǔ 入塔語 (stupa-burial sermon). Juan 6+: jǔgǔ, fǎyǔ, etc.
Tiyao
Not applicable — Qiánlóng / Jiā-xīng-canon imprint.
Other points of interest
This is the lineage-foundational yǔlù for the entire late-Míng / early-Qīng LínjìYángqí establishment that fills J27–J40 of the Jiāxīng Canon. Through Huànyǒu’s three fǎsì — Mìyún Yuánwù, Tiānyǐn Yuánxiū, Xuějiāo Yuánxìn — the lineage extended to the famous Línjì revival figures Mùchén Dàomǐn 木陳道忞, Fèiyǐn Tōngróng 費隱通容, Shíchē Tōngchéng 石車通乘, Wànrú Tōngwēi 萬如通微 (cf. KR6q0584), Yùlín Tōngxiù 玉林通琇, etc. — i.e. the entire Mìyún cohort.
Translations and research
- Jiang Wu 2008. Enlightenment in Dispute: The Reinvention of Chan Buddhism in Seventeenth-Century China. New York: Oxford University Press — chapter 1 discusses Huàn-yǒu’s lineage-foundational role.
- 釋見一 Shì Jiàn-yī: 《漢月法藏之禪法研究》 — touches on the Huàn-yǒu line through Hàn-yuè Fǎ-zàng.