Bǎojué Chánshī yǔlù 寶覺禪師語録
Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Hōgaku by 湛照 Tōzan Tanshō (語)
About the work
A single-fascicle Recorded Sayings collection of 湛照 Tōzan Tanshō (1231–1291), a Kamakura-period Japanese Rinzai-Zen master and dharma-heir of 圓爾 Enni Ben’en at Tōfuku-ji. Posthumous title Hōgaku Zenji 寶覺禪師 (“Treasure-Awakened Zen Master”). The yulu compiles his formal jōdō sermons, hōgo talks, and verses.
Abstract
Tanshō belonged to the second generation of the Tōfuku-ji Shōichi-ha 聖一派 lineage. His Recorded Sayings, in the standard yulu genre, preserves a single-fascicle witness to the Tōfuku-ji teaching tradition immediately after the founding master Enni Ben’en. Compiled by his attendant-monks (the precise compiler is unnamed in the CANWWW record).
Significance: a primary source for the early-generation Tōfuku-ji Rinzai-Zen tradition; one of the earliest Japanese yulu in the canon.
Translations and research
- No substantial Western-language translation located.
Links
- CBETA: T80n2545