Chángxiǎo lù 常曉錄
The Catalog of Jōgyō by 常曉 (撰), = Jōgyō 常曉
About the work
A single-juan Japanese Tang-pilgrim importation catalog by Jōgyō 常曉 (Japanese Jōgyō, dates not preserved), one of the eight Tang-pilgrim Japanese monks (nittō hakke 入唐八家 — Saichō, Kūkai, Jōgyō, Engyō, Ennin, Eun, Enchin, Shūei) who undertook study missions to Tang China during the late 8th and 9th centuries to acquire Tang Buddhist canonical-and-doctrinal materials. Jōgyō traveled to Tang in 838 (returning 839) as one of the participants in the great Japanese embassy of that year (which also included Ennin). His catalog documents the texts and ritual materials he brought back. Preserved at T55 no. 2163.
Abstract
Authorship and date: by Jōgyō 常曉 (Japanese, dates not preserved), produced upon his 839 return to Japan from his 838 Tang study mission. notBefore = 839, notAfter = 839. Catalog dynasty 日本.
The work documents Jōgyō’s Tang importation — primarily Esoteric materials acquired through his study at the imperial-court Esoteric translation establishment in late-Tang Chángān. Less culturally consequential than the Saichō / Kūkai / Ennin importations, but a primary documentary witness to the continuous Japanese Tang-pilgrimage tradition that imported Tang Buddhist materials into Heian Japan over a 70-year period (804–860s).
Translations and research
- Robert Borgen, Sugawara no Michizane and the Early Heian Court (Harvard, 1986) — context for the Heian-court Tang-mission tradition.
- General Japanese-Heian Buddhist studies tradition for the nittō hakke tradition.
Links
- DILA authority: (no preserved DILA authority entry)
- CBETA: T55n2163
- Author: Jōgyō 常曉, one of the nittō hakke (Tang-pilgrim Japanese monks)
- Tradition: 入唐八家 nittō hakke (the eight Heian Tang-pilgrim Japanese Buddhist monks)
- Companion catalogs: KR6s0105–KR6s0106 (Saichō), KR6s0107–KR6s0108 (Kūkai), KR6s0110 (Engyō), KR6s0111–KR6s0114 (Ennin), KR6s0115 (Eun), KR6s0116–KR6s0117 (Enchin)