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宗賾

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Basic Meaning: Zongze

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  • (d.1106) Chan Master Changlu Zongze 長蘆宗賾 (d. 1106), also known as Cijue Chanshi 慈覺禪師, was a Northern Song 北宋 monk of the Yunmen Chan lineage 雲門宗. Born surnamed Sun 孫 near Mingzhou 洺州 (modern Guangfu city, Hebei 河北 province), it is said Zongzeʼs father died early, and his mother raised him in his maternal uncleʼs house. Zongze early on received a Confucian education, and later took interest in Buddhism at the urging of Chan Master Qingman 淸滿禪師 of Hongji Chan Cloister 洪濟禪院 in nearby Zhending 眞定府 (near modern Shijiazhuang, Hebei province). At the age of twenty-nine, Zongze took the tonsure under Fayun Faxiu 法雲法秀 (1027–1090) while he was abbot at Changlu Monastery 長蘆寺. He would become a dharma heir of the subsequent abbot, Changlu Yingfu 長蘆應夫 (d. 1098). Zongze was abbot of three monasteries. From 1088 to 1095, Zongze was abbot of Puhui Chan Cloister 普會禪院 in his hometown of Mingzhou; from 1095 until late 1104, Zongze was abbot of Hongji Chan Cloister in Zhending; and from 1105 until his death in 1106, he was abbot of Changlu Monastery. While abbot of Hongji Chan Cloister, Zongze wrote the foundational Chan monastic rulebook Chanyuan qinggui 禪苑淸規. A long-lost copy of the Recorded Sayings of Chan Master Cijue 慈覺禪師語錄 was found at Komazawa University Library and reproduced by Shiina Kōyū. The extant copy is a transcription in the hand of Eda Toshio 江田俊雄 (1898–1957), based on a now-lost medieval Korean xylographic edition, thought to derive from a lost Song edition. The text includes a preface dated 1109. Zongze was also a learned advocate of Pure Land 淨土 practices. In 1089 he created a lay confraternity known as 'Superlative Assembly of Lotus Blossoms'  蓮華勝會. Some later texts would list him as one of the pure land patriarchs. Zongze is said to have cared for his mother in his abbotʼs quarters during his tenure in Mingzhou, and thereby was highly regarded by later tradition for his filial piety. 〔百丈淸規 T 2025.48.1139c23〕

    References:

    Shiina Kōyū 椎名宏雄. 2009. “Chōro Sōseku sen Jikaku zenji goroku no shutsugen to sono yigi 長蘆宗賾撰『慈覺禪師語錄』の出現とその意義 .” Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies 57 (2): 744–750.

    Yang Jun 阳珺. 2012. “Song seng Cijue Zongze xin yan 宋僧慈觉宗赜新硏 .” M.A. Thesis, Shanghai.

    Yifa, Bhiksuni. 2002. The Origins of Buddhist Monastic Codes in China. Honolulu:  University of Hawai`i Press. Kuroda.

    [Erez Joskovich, Jason Protass; source(s): ZGDJT]
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    Entry created: 2020-05-28

    Updated: 2020-07-04