Xù Fózǔ tǒngjì 續佛祖統紀
Continuation to the Comprehensive Record of the Buddhas and Patriarchs
anonymous Yuán-period Tiāntái continuation of 志磐’s KR6r0012
About the work
A short two-juan continuation of 志磐’s monumental Fózǔ tǒngjì (KR6r0012), preserved anonymously in the Manji Xuzangjing (X75 no. 1515). The compiler is unnamed in the surviving text. The work continues the Tiāntái universal-history project from the point at which 志磐 broke off (1236) into the Yuán dynasty, and is composed from a Tiāntái sectarian standpoint.
Abstract
The work consists of two juan: a biographical/annalistic supplement covering Buddhist events of the late Sòng and early to mid Yuán, and a series of biographical entries on Tiāntái masters of the period 1240–1340 or thereabouts. Without internal evidence the dating cannot be tightened beyond the bracket 1270 (post-Zhìpán) to 1340 (latest events apparently recorded). The compiler was clearly a Tiāntái monk in the Sìmíng 四明 lineage; some scholars have tentatively associated the work with the circle around the early-Yuán Tiāntái historian Méng Rùn 蒙潤 (1275–1342).
The text is short, uneven in quality, and was little circulated. Its principal value is as a Tiāntái-aligned record of Buddhist events for the Yuán transition, supplementing the more universalising accounts of 念常 in KR6r0013 and the chronicle in 覺岸’s KR6r0014.
Translations and research
- No substantial secondary literature located. Schmidt-Glintzer (Die Identität, 1982) mentions the work briefly as a satellite of the KR6r0012 tradition.
Links
- CBETA: X75n1515