Yùjiǎng wénshū 御講聞書
Record of Things Heard from the Honored Lectures by 日向 Nikō (撰), recording teachings attributed to 日蓮 Nichiren
About the work
A single-fascicle Nichiren-school doctrinal compendium traditionally attributed to Nikō 日向 日向 (1253–1314) recording the lecture-hall transmissions of 日蓮 Nichiren during the Minobu years (1274–1282). The work is the counterpart, from the Mt. Minobu / Nichiren-shū mainstream line, of the Ongi kuden KR6t0410 that comes from the Nikkō / Fuji-monryū line. Both works present themselves as Nichiren’s oral teaching as recorded by an immediate disciple; both are doctrinally important to their respective sectarian lines; both have, in modern critical scholarship, been questioned as to authentic Nichiren-attribution.
Abstract
The Onkō kikigaki is shorter than the Ongi kuden and less comprehensive in its coverage of the Lotus Sūtra. It contains a series of doctrinal expositions attributed to Nichiren — on the honzon, on the daimoku, on the kyō-han doctrinal classification — without the chapter-by-chapter sūtra coverage of the Ongi kuden. The work was preserved at Mt. Minobu (the head temple of the Nichiren-shū mainstream branch) and is one of the principal sources by which that branch differentiates its doctrinal-genealogical line from the Fuji-monryū / Nichiren Shōshū branch.
Authenticity caveat. As with the Ongi kuden, modern critical scholarship has questioned the strict Nichiren-attribution. The doctrinal content is substantially Nichiren-derived, but the textual form reflects late-13th / early-14th c. Mt. Minobu Nichiren-shū doctrinal compilation. The work is best understood as a post-Nichiren Mt. Minobu compilation projecting Nichiren-derived material in a sectarian-specific form.
Internally, the work is dated to Nichiren’s Minobu period (conventionally c. 1278); its final redaction is conservatively dated c. 1278–1314 (Nikō’s death year).
Structural Division
The CANWWW entry (div29.xml, T84N2700) records the work as a single-fascicle text by Nikō (recording Nichiren) with no internal toc sub-list and no related-text cross-references tabulated.
Translations and research
No English translation. Major studies: Watanabe Hōyō, Nichiren no shisō to Kamakura Bukkyō (Yoshikawa kōbunkan, 1985); Asai Endō, Nichiren shōnin kyōgaku no kenkyū (Heirakuji, 1976); Tamura Yoshirō, Nichiren Shōnin (Kōdansha, 1973); Jacqueline I. Stone, Original Enlightenment (Hawai’i, 1999).
Links
- CBETA online
- Compiler: 日向 (Nikō)
- Attributed teacher: 日蓮 (Nichiren) — authenticity contested
- Companion: KR6t0410 (Ongi kuden by Nikkō)