Dà Míng chóngkān sānzàng shèngjiào mùlù 大明重刊三藏聖教目錄
The Great Míng Recutting Catalog of the Sacred Tripiṭaka edited by 雙徑山僧眾 (編)
About the work
A three-juan late-Míng Buddhist canonical bibliography produced collectively by the Shuāng-jìng-shān monastic community 雙徑山僧眾 — the monastic establishment at Mount Shuāng-jìng 雙徑山 in Hú-zhōu (the principal late-Míng Linji-Caodong synthesis center in the Liǎng-zhè region) — for the Wàn-lì-era recutting of the canon project. The work documents the canonical state for the Jiāxīng canon 嘉興藏 / Léng-yán-bō-rě-táng-zàng project, which began at Mount Wǔ-tái under Mì-cáng Dào-kāi 密藏道開 in 1589 and was completed at Léng-yán-sì in Jiāxīng over the following century. Preserved in the Zhōnghuá Tripiṭaka at C106 no. 1937. The Kanripo catalog assigns the byline collectively to Shuāng-jìng-shān sēng-zhòng 雙徑山僧眾 (“the monastic community of Mount Shuāng-jìng”) rather than to any single named author.
Prefaces
The text has no preserved single-authored auto-preface (the byline indicates collective monastic-community authorship). The body of the work provides the canonical-bibliographic register in standard SòngYuánMíng canonical organization.
Abstract
Authorship and date: produced collectively by the Mount Shuāngjìng monastic community in connection with the late-Míng / Wàn-lì-era canonical-recutting projects. Mount Shuāngjìng was a principal Linji-school center in the late Míng under figures including Hànyuè Fǎzàng 漢月法藏 (1573–1635) — and was deeply involved in the Jiāxīng canon-printing project centered nearby at Léngyánsì in Jiāxīng. notBefore = 1573, notAfter = 1620 (a defensible Wàn-lì-era bracket). Catalog dynasty 明.
The work is one of the principal late-Míng canonical-bibliographic instruments associated with the Jiāxīng-canon project — the great late-Míng / early-Qīng lay-sponsored canon-printing effort that produced one of the most extensive Chinese Buddhist canon-printings ever undertaken. The Mount Shuāngjìng community’s role in the project, as documented through this catalog, is one of the principal pieces of evidence for the late-Míng Linji-school’s institutional engagement with canon-printing.
Translations and research
- Hé Méi 何梅, Lì-dài hàn-wén dà-zàng-jīng mù-lù xīn-kǎo (2014).
- Jiang Wu 吳疆, Enlightenment in Dispute (Oxford, 2008) — context for late-Míng Linji school and Mount Shuāng-jìng.
- Cuī Zhèng-sēn 崔正森 and the modern Sinophone late-Míng / Qīng Buddhist canon-printing scholarly tradition.
Other points of interest
The Mount Shuāngjìng monastic-collective authorship is unusual among Chinese Buddhist canonical bibliographies (which are typically attributed to single named authors or to imperial commission). The collective format reflects the late-Míng monastic-community model of scholarly production — characteristic of the Hànyuè Fǎzàng circle and other late-Míng Linji centers.
Links
- DILA authority: (no preserved authority entry — collective monastic authorship)
- CBETA: C106n1937
- Editorial collective: Shuāngjìngshān sēngzhòng 雙徑山僧眾 (Mount Shuāngjìng monastic community)
- Canon-printing context: Jiāxīng canon 嘉興藏 / Léngyánbōrětáng project (begun 1589 at Wǔtáishān, completed at Léngyánsì in Jiāxīng)
- Related Yōngzhèng polemical context: KR6s0068 Jiǎnmó biànyì lù (Yōngzhèng’s polemic against Hànyuè Fǎzàng)