Zutang ji
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Zutang ji. (J. Sodōshū; K. Chodang chip 祖堂集). “Anthology of the Patriarchs’ Hall”.[1] One of the earliest “lamplight histories” (chuandeng lu), viz., lineage records, of the Chan tradition, compiled in 952 by the monks Jing (K. Chŏng) (d.u.) and Yun/Jun (K. Un/Kyun) (d.u.) of the monastery of Chaojingsi in Quanzhou (in present-day Fujian province).[2]
The Zutang ji builds on the Baolin zhuan, an earlier Chan history on which it seems largely to have been based.[2]
The Digital Dictionary of Buddhism states:
- The Zutang ji ... is the earliest fully extant, multi-lineal lamp record (dēnglù 燈錄; dēngshǐ 燈史) of the southern Chan Buddhist tradition. In the history of Chan literature, it is situated on the one hand between the Baolin zhuan..., the Shèngzhòu jí 聖胄集 (e.g., S.4478, P.3913; ca. 899), and the Xù Bǎolín zhuàn 續寶林傳 (no longer extant; ca. 907–911) and, on the other hand, the influential Jingde chuandeng lu 景德傳燈錄 (T 2076), compiled by Dàoyuán 道原 (d.u.) ca. 1004, and edited by Yáng Yì 楊億 (974–1020) and other officials by 1009.
- The Zutang ji was initially compiled by Jìng 靜 (d.u.) and Yún 筠 (d.u.), two Chan monks on whom we have little information, and prefaced by Chan master Jìngxiū 淨修禪師 (892?–972) of the Zhāoqìng monastery 招慶寺 in Quánzhōu 泉州 (Fújiàn 福建 province). It inherits the patriarchal lineage of the Baolin zhuan and the earliest stratum of the text was likely completed around the mid-tenth century. The sole extant witness of the Zutang ji is the Goryeo 高麗 woodblock edition carved in the 32nd year (eulsa 乙巳) of the Gojong 高宗 era (1245). It was found and identified by Japanese scholars in the early 20th century among the extra-canonical works of the second enterprise of the Goryeo Buddhist canon (Kor. Goryeo Daejanggyeong 高麗大藏經) stored at the Haein monastery 海印寺 in Korea, supplemented by a preface written by a certain Gwangjun 匡儁 (d.u.).[3]
Notes
- ↑ Buswell & Lopez 2014, s.v. Zutang ji.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Buswell & Lopez 2014, s.v. Chodang chip.
- ↑
祖堂集, Digital Dictionary of Buddhism (to sign in, see DDB sign-in)
Sources
Buswell, Robert E.; Lopez, Donald S. (2014), The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Princeton University- 祖堂集, Digital Dictionary of Buddhism (to sign in, see DDB sign-in)
