Nányuàn Guóshī yǔlù 南院國師語録
Recorded Sayings of National Master Nan’in by 祖圓 Kian Soen (語); compiled by 慧真 Eshin (等編)
About the work
A three-fascicle Recorded Sayings collection of 祖圓 Kian Soen (1261–1313), Late-Kamakura Japanese Rinzai-Zen master, posthumous imperial title Nan’in Kokushi 南院國師 (“National Master of the Southern Cloister” — referring to Nanzen-ji 南禪寺, the imperial Kyoto Zen temple). Compiled by his disciple Eshin 慧真 and others.
Abstract
Kian Soen was the dharma-heir of 道隆 Rankei Dōryū (Lánxī Dàolóng) at Kenchō-ji, hence a principal Daikaku-ha lineage-holder. As an early abbot of Nanzen-ji — the imperial Zen monastery founded by Emperor Kameyama (1291) and recognized as the first temple of the Five Mountains (五山之上) — he stands at a foundational moment of the Gozan administrative system.
His Recorded Sayings, in three fascicles, preserves jōdō sermons from his Nanzen-ji and other abbacies, hōgo dharma-talks, occasion-verses, and encounter-dialogues. The work is one of the documentary witnesses to the Daikaku-ha doctrinal-and-practice tradition in the early Five-Mountain period.
Significance: a major Daikaku-ha yulu, central for understanding the early Nanzen-ji and the foundational moment of the Five-Mountain Zen system.
Translations and research
- No substantial Western-language translation located.
- Collcutt, Martin, Five Mountains (1981).
Links
- CBETA: T80n2552