Shāncí Jì chánshī yǔlù 山茨際禪師語錄
Recorded Sayings of Chán Master Shān-cí Jì by 達尊 (等編次), 達謙 (等編次)
Four-juan yǔlù of Shāncí Tōngjì 通際 山茨通際 (1608-08-20 – 1645-03-05, age 38, zuòxià 24 — the youngest death among the four founders of the Qìngshān 磬山 sub-branch). LínjìYángqí dharma-heir of Tiānyǐn Yuánxiū 圓修 (1575–1635, cf. KR6q0603) — alongside Yùlín Tōngxiù 通琇 (KR6q0605), Línggāo Tōngyù 林臯通豫, and Ruòān Tōngwèn 通問. Native of Tōngzhōu 通州 (Jiāngsū), lay surname Lǐ 李. Compiled by fǎsì Ěrzhān Dázūn 達尊 and Xuáncí Dáqiān 達謙 děng biāncì. Catalog source-edition is the Qiánlóng Edition Vol. 157 No. 1649.
Documents teaching at three abbacies — concentrated in the dramatic decade 1635–1645 between the master’s fùfǎ and his early death amid the dynastic transition: Hángzhōufǔ Dōngmíng chánsì 杭州府東明禪寺; Nányuè Lǜluóān 南嶽綠蘿菴 (Húnán); Chángshāfǔ Liúyáng Nányuán chánsì 長沙府瀏陽南源禪寺 (where his disciple 達尊 — at the same monastery — would later (1646–1663) restore the famous Shíshuāngsì 石霜寺 ancestral seat). notBefore = 1635 (post-Yuán-xiū-death fùfǎ); notAfter = 1645 (death). Catalog dynasty 清.
Contents. Juan 1: Nányuè Shāncí Jì chánshī yǔlù xù; mùlù; abbacy yǔlù records (Dōngmíngsì 1638+, Lǜluóān, Liúyáng Nányuánsì); yīnshì. Juan 2: niāngǔ; dàigǔ; sònggǔ. Juan 3: jīyuán; fǎyǔ (with disciples named: 示何二山居士, 示省指禪人, 示三學禪人, 示照初禪人, 示憩南楊居士, shì nǐ Jìzǒng 示尼繼總 — a nun-disciple, also addressed in the Fúshī Jiēyuán Xínggāng 行剛 yǔlù KR6q0428). Juan 4: closing materials.
Tiyao
Not applicable — Qiánlóng-canon imprint.
Other points of interest
KR6q0608 (Shāncí Tōngjì) and KR6q0605 (Yùlín Tōngxiù) are the two principal yǔlù of Tiānyǐn Yuánxiū’s four heirs in the Qiánlóng-canon — Tōngjì’s brief, intense career (38 years) producing the Nányuè chándēnglù (Húnán Chán biographical anthology) and three Hangzhou-Húnán abbacies; Tōngxiù’s longer career producing imperial-court engagement and the Guóshī title. The dharma-heir transition from Tōngjì → Dázūn → Shíshuāngsì restoration (1646+) makes this one of the foundational lines of Qīng-era Húnán LínjìYángqí Buddhism — see KR6q0420 《石霜爾瞻尊禪師語錄》 for the next-generation continuation.