Zōngbǎo 宗寶 (fl. late 13th century), Yuán-dynasty Chán monk, abbot of the Fēngfān Bào’ēn Guāngxiào chánsì 風旛報恩光孝禪寺 in Sháozhōu 韶州 (Guǎngdōng), and the editor of the received canonical recension of the Platform Sūtra of the Sixth Patriarch (KR6q0083 Liùzǔ dàshī fǎbǎo Tánjīng 六祖大師法寶壇經, Taishō T48 n2008). No independent biographical material survives: lifedates, native place, and lineage affiliation all unrecorded. Zōngbǎo’s own 1291 postface self-identifies him as Nánhǎi shì 南海釋 (“a Sháozhōu / Nánhǎi-region śramaṇa”), with no further personal detail.
Zōngbǎo’s editorial method, set out in his own postface, was to collate three extant Tánjīng recensions whose blocks had become corrupt (bǎn yǐ mànmiè 板亦漫滅), correcting errors, restoring abridgements, and adding a dìzǐ qǐngyì jīyuán 弟子請益機緣 section of disciple-request-for-instruction encounter-dialogues. The work was completed in summer Zhìyuán 28 (1291), with patronage from the àncháshǐ Yún Cónglóng 雲從龍, building on the base text recovered the previous year (1290) by Gǔjūn bǐqiū Déyì 古筠比丘德異 of the Xiūxiū chánān 休休禪庵 at Wúzhōng 吳中.
The Zōngbǎo recension subsequently became the canonical form of the Tánjīng in all East-Asian Buddhist traditions (Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese), displacing all prior recensions (notably the Dūnhuáng recension KR6q0082 and the lost Northern-Sòng Qìsōng 契嵩 1056 recension of which only the zàn preface survives embedded in the Zōngbǎo form). Zōngbǎo’s ten-pǐn 品 structural division is the structural signature of the long recension.
Works in the Kanripo corpus: KR6q0083 Liùzǔ dàshī fǎbǎo Tánjīng (1 juan, T48 n2008) only.
Per DILA A000609.