Liú Sòng / Southern Qí lay Buddhist yǐn jūn 隱君 (“retired gentleman”), scholar of the Yì jīng 易經, and exemplar of the yǐn yì 隱逸 (“eremite”) ideal celebrated in the dynastic biographies. Zì Chéngliè 承烈. Native of Píngyuán 平原 (modern Shāndōng). Repeatedly summoned by the Sòng and Qí courts but consistently declined office, retiring first to Lónggǔ 龍谷 in the Láo Mountains 嶗山 and then, after Qí Wǔdì offered him yǐn shì 隱士 honours, to Shè Shān 攝山 (the famous Buddhist mountain south-east of Jiànkāng, where he established the Qī xiá Sì 棲霞寺 foundation now associated with the great rock-cut Buddhas of Nánjīng). His circle included 周顒 Zhōu Yóng and the early Sānlùn 三論 Buddhist masters.
Yì-jīng studies. Míng Sēngshào composed a Yì jīng yì shū 易經義疏 and a Xìcí zhù 繫辭注 (commentary on the Great Treatise) that have not survived as integral texts. They are quoted in 陸德明 Lù Démíng’s Jīng diǎn shì wén 經典釋文 alongside the readings of 荀爽 Xún Shuǎng, 荀柔之 Xún Róuzhī, 王肅 Wáng Sù, 卞伯玉 Biàn Bóyù, and 桓玄 Huán Xuán, which is the chief surviving evidence of his exegetical positions. 馬國翰 Mǎ Guóhàn collected these fragments in Yùhán shānfáng jíyì shū 玉函山房輯佚書 under the title Zhōu Yì xìcí Míng shì zhù 周易繫辭明氏注 (KR1a0175), 1 juàn.
Sources. Nán Qí shū 南齊書 54 (Gāo yì zhuàn 高逸傳); Nán shǐ 南史 50.
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