Xù DàTáng nèidiǎn lù 續大唐內典錄
A Continuation of the Catalog of the Inner Canon of the Great Táng by 道宣 (撰)
About the work
A single-juan continuation supplement to Dàoxuān’s main DàTáng nèidiǎn lù (KR6s0088, T2149, 664 CE), produced by Dàoxuān 道宣 (596–667) himself in the brief period between the main catalog’s completion (664) and his death (667). The supplement adds further bibliographic and translation-history materials that came to Dàoxuān’s attention after the main catalog’s completion. Preserved at T55 no. 2150.
Prefaces
The text opens with the Xù DàTáng nèidiǎn lù zànxù 續大唐內典錄讚序. In paraphrase:
Now: the great sage in his substance distinguishes and is long-deep-and-still. Universally moistening the moving-and-the-still — together they ripen-the-qì-and-ascend. The dim-darkened are not bright; the able to be different transformed do not nourish. Not saying parents-and-relatives — returning in mark to the having-mark, the having-Way — perhaps storing in the lofty heights, dwelling in the rocks, expounding the prajñā double-grove…
[The brief preface continues with concise doctrinal framing.]
Abstract
Authorship and date: composed by Dàoxuān 道宣 in the years immediately after the 664 main catalog’s completion, before his death in 667. notBefore = 664, notAfter = 667. Catalog dynasty 唐.
The work is a brief supplement containing additional bibliographic data that Dàoxuān gathered after completing the main catalog — particularly material on Tang-period translation activity that postdated the main catalog’s bibliographic cutoff. It functions as the author’s own addendum rather than an independent work; its single-juan extent makes it a slim supplement to the 10-juan main catalog.
The work is consequently of less independent bibliographic significance than KR6s0088 but is essential for the complete reconstruction of Dàoxuān’s bibliographic project. Modern scholarly use of the DàTáng nèidiǎn lù tradition treats the main catalog and the supplement as a single combined documentary unit.
Translations and research
See KR6s0088 for general references. Specific to the supplement:
- Hé Méi 何梅, Lì-dài hàn-wén dà-zàng-jīng mù-lù xīn-kǎo (2014) — discusses the relationship between KR6s0088 and KR6s0089 in detail.
Other points of interest
Dàoxuān’s death in Qiánfēng 乾封 2, 10th month, 3rd day = 27 October 667 marks the close of his bibliographic work. The supplement’s brief 1-juan extent reflects its production in the brief 3-year window between the main catalog’s completion and his death — a poignant documentary witness to a major scholar’s continued professional engagement up to the end of his life.
Links
- DILA authority: A001519 (道宣)
- CBETA: T55n2150
- Author: Dàoxuān 道宣 (596–667)
- Main work: KR6s0088 DàTáng nèidiǎn lù (T2149, 664)