Xìngxīn chāo 幸心鈔
The Fortunate-Heart Compendium by 憲深; recorded by 親快 (記)
About the work
A five-fascicle Shingon ritual kuden compendium preserving the oral teachings of Kenjin 憲深 (1192–1263) of the Ono-ryū transmission line, recorded by his disciple Shinkai 親快 (1205–1271). The compilation is the central document of the Ninniku-yama (忍辱山) lineage — i.e. the Kenjin-Shinkai transmission line that fed into the Sanbō-in Risshūryū stream of mid-Kamakura Shingon.
Abstract
Authorship and dating: CANWWW records Kenjin (AUT01127, role unknown) as transmitter and Shinkai (AUT01128, role 記 recorder) as the compiler. The composition window is ca. 1220–1271, bracketed by Kenjin’s mature career and Shinkai’s death. Two principal later transmissions are recorded: Daiei 8 (1528), summer 3rd month (Rin-zhong, an old calendrical formula = late spring), copied at the Muryōkō-in sub-temple of Bessō of Kongōbu-ji, by Kenyō 堅譽 (age 55); and Kyōhō 7 (1722), mid-summer, copied with collation in the western outskirts of Kyoto by Mitsugon 密嚴 (age 76).
Doctrinal content: the table of contents covers a comprehensive bessen-hō program organized by deity-section:
- Transmission sequence and procedure (傳受次第事, 同作法事).
- Avalokiteśvara-section seal (觀音段印事).
- Sahasrabhuja (千手).
- Eleven-Faced; Cundī (準胝).
- Cow-King empowerment (牛王加持事) — a specialised rite for cattle-deity propitiation.
- Cintāmaṇi-cakra; Amoghapāśa.
- Leaf-Robed [Avalokiteśvara] wishing-mudrā (葉衣施願印事).
- White-Robed Avalokiteśvara; Samantabhadra-Aparimitāyus with the three-headed-four-headed elephant matter.
- Soul-summoning (招魂事) — a specialised funerary-rite procedure.
- Five-Esoteric (五祕密事).
- Five-Ākāśagarbha (五大虚空藏事), with the autograph-record entered at the end of fascicle 4.
- Brief-and-extended dais-visualizations of the various honored ones (諸尊道場觀廣略事).
- Vajra-Joy Bodhisattva (金剛喜菩薩事).
- Amitābha three-equality-form; Śākyamuni.
For each section, the text gives the specific Ono-ryū variants distinguishing the Ninniku-yama transmission from the Hirosawa and other Ono branches. The work is a primary witness to the mid-13th-century Ono-ryū kuden literature.
Translations and research
- No substantial Western-language secondary literature located.
Links
- CBETA: T78n2498
- DILA authority: A001127 (憲深), A001128 (親快)
- Related: KR6t0179 Xiǎoyě liù tiè (Ningai, the foundational Ono-ryū compilation).