Jīngāngjīng shòuchí gǎnyìng lù 金剛經受持感應錄
Records of Sympathetic Resonance from the Receiving-and-Upholding of the Diamond Sūtra
(anonymous compilation, drawing principally on 《太平廣記·報應部》)
About the work
A 2-juan Sòng-period anthology of Diamond Sūtra miracle-tales, anonymous in its present form but explicitly identified in its catalogue colophon as drawn from the《太平廣記》報應部 (“the Bàoyìng / ‘karmic-retribution’ section of the Tàipíng guǎngjì”) — i.e., the great early-Sòng encyclopedia of marvellous tales compiled at imperial command in Tàipíngxīngguó 太平興國 2 (977) and presented in 太平興國 3 (978). The work is therefore a secondary-derivative anthology: it extracts from the Tàipíng guǎngjì’s vast bàoyìng section those tales that specifically bear on Diamond Sūtra devotion, and arranges them into a focused thematic compilation. The compiler is unnamed; the work was likely produced in the mid-Sòng period for monastic-pastoral or lay-devotional use as a more compact substitute for the larger Tàipíng guǎngjì itself. Transmitted in the Xùzàngjīng as X1631.
Prefaces
The work has no separate preface; it opens directly with the table of contents (mùlù), comprising approximately 80 named-protagonist entries drawn chronologically from the SòngQíLiángChén through the Tang. The catalogue heading explicitly cites the source: “宋太平廣記報應部” (“the Bàoyìng section of the Sòng Tàipíng guǎngjì”).
Abstract
The work catalogues approximately 80 Diamond Sūtra miracle-tales, organised broadly chronologically. The opening sequence — 盧景裕 (Northern Wèi), 趙文若 (Suí), 趙文昌 (Suí), the Xīnfánxiàn shūshēng 新繁縣書生 (Suí), Kuǎi Wǔān 蒯武安 (Tang), Mù Yàntōng 睦彥通 (Tang) — represents the standard early-Tang miracle-tale repertoire as inherited and codified in the Sòng Tàipíng guǎngjì. The tales mostly trace back, through the Guǎngjì citation chain, to the original Tang miracle-anthological sources — principally Mèng Xiànzhōng’s KR6r0174 Jíyàn jì, Duàn Chéngshì’s KR6r0175 Jiūyì, and the Tang 《冥報記》 Míngbào jì of Táng Lín — but are presented in the Sòng-redacted versions found in the Guǎngjì.
The work’s distinctive contribution is its function as a portable, focused, post-redaction edition of the Tang Diamond Sūtra miracle-tale tradition: rather than requiring access to the 500-juan Tài-píng guǎng-jì, the late-Sòng / Yuán / Míng monastic devotee or lay-Buddhist could consult Hóng-zàn’s KR6r0166 for Avalokiteśvara, the present work for the Diamond Sūtra, and so on through the cult-literature.
The dating bracket — 978 to 1100 — is fixed by the Tàipíng guǎngjì compilation date (lower bound) and by the work’s transmission in the SòngYuán Buddhist publishing tradition (upper bound, plausibly mid-to-late Sòng).
Translations and research
- 鄭阿財, 《敦煌佛教靈驗記研究》(Táiběi: Xīn-wén-fēng, 2010).
- Robert Campany, Signs from the Unseen Realm (Honolulu: Univ. of Hawai’i Press, 2012) — context.
- 卞東波, 《太平廣記輯佚》(Hángzhōu: Zhèjiāng gǔ-jí chū-bǎn-shè, 2009) — Tài-píng guǎng-jì textual-critical study, supplying the source-base for the present compilation.
- No dedicated monographic study of the Shòu-chí gǎn-yìng lù has been located.
Links
- CBETA: X87n1631