Jeffrery Lyle Broughton - Zongmi on Chan

Zongmi on Chan

TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ASIAN CLASSICS

Translations from the Asian Classics

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Zongmi on Chan

Jeffrey Lyle Broughton

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The author thanks Abbot Aoki of Kumida-dera in Osaka for kind permission to reproduce the portrait of Zongmi used as this books frontispiece.

Thanks to Yoshioka Nobuko for her kind assistance in securing permission from Kumida-dera and Stephen M. Strasen for his kind assistance in digitizing the image. Source: Portrait of Guifeng Zongmi (Keih Shmitsu; 780841). Hanging scroll. Ink with color on silk. 95 53 cm. Late fourteenth to early fifteenth centuries. One of a set of four portraits of Kegon school patriarchs in the possession of Kumida-dera in Osaka prefecture.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Broughton, Jeffrey L., 1944

Zongmi on Chan / Jeffrey Lyle Broughton.

p. cm.(Translations from the Asian classics)

Includes English translations of Chinese texts.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-231-14392-9 (cloth : alk. paper)ISBN 978-0-231-51308-1 (e-book)

1. Zongmi, 780841. 2. Zen BuddhismChinaDoctrines. I. Title.

BQ8249.T787B76 2009

294.39270951dc22 2008040358

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To Elise Yoko Watanabe

LAMENTING CHAN MASTER ZONGMI

A precipitous path where only birds can go with snow on the ridges and peaks,

The master is deadwho will go up there to do Chan sitting?

Dust on his writing table has piled up since he extinguished.

The colors of the trees have changed since he was alive.

His tiered stupa faces pines rustling in the wind.

His footprints remain beside the neglected spring.

I just sigh over the tiger that used to listen to his sutra chanting,

Arriving on time at the side of his dilapidated hermitage.

Jia Dao (779843) (Quan Tangshi [Complete Tang Poems], 17:573.6669; see glossary under Jia Dao)

CONTENTS

CHINESE: HANYU PINYIN

I have adhered to the Basic Rules for Hanyu Pinyin Orthography found in John DeFrancis, ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003), 134149. The general guideline there is to take the word (ci) as the unit of spelling. Thus, structures of two or three syllables that express an integral concept are written together as one word, but there will always be ambiguous cases. Note that this differs from the Library of Congress systems general principle of separation of syllables (see Library of Congress Pinyin Conversion Project: New Chinese Romanization Outlines, http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pinyin/romcover.html).

JAPANESE: MODIFIED HEPBURN

See Watanabe Toshir, Edmund R. Skrzypczak, and Paul Snowden, eds., Kenkyushas New Japanese-English Dictionary, 5th ed. (Tokyo: Kenkysha, 2003), Rmaji tsuzuri hhy [Romanization Spelling Chart].

KOREAN: MCCUNE-REISCHAUER

See http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/korean.pdf.

SANSKRIT: IAST (INTERNATIONAL ALPHABET FOR SANSKRIT TRANSLITERATION)

However, Sanskrit terms that appear in the list of Roger Jackson, Terms of Sanskrit and Pli Origin Acceptable as English Words, The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 5, no. 2 (1982): 14142, appear without italicization or diacritical marks. Names of Indian patriarchs other than disciples of the Buddha, treatise masters, translators, and deities, such as Dhrtaka, Simha, Nagarjuna, Asanga, Bhavaviveka, Kumarajiva, Gunabhadra, Divakara, Siksananda, Ucchusma, etc., also appear without diacritical marks.

TIBETAN: WYLIE

See Turrell Wylie, A Standard System of Tibetan Transcription, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 22 (December 1959): 26167.