Chan禪宗

The Chan lineage from the seven buddhas to the heirs of Fayan, fifty-two generations and 1,701 people, in thirty fascicles. Compiled by Daoyuan and presented to the Song court in 1004.

The sayings, verses and family stories of Layman Pang, his wife and his daughter Lingzhao, compiled by the governor Yu Di, at whose side Pang died.

The teachings attributed to Huineng. A shorter text survives in a manuscript from Dunhuang; the text catalogued here is Zongbao’s edition of 1291.

The second of the Song lamp records, compiled by the layman Li Zunxu and presented to the court with an imperial preface dated 1036. It follows the Jingde chuandeng lu and gives the Linji line fuller coverage.

A poem on nonduality attributed to the third ancestor; the attribution is traditional, and the poem is probably later.

Zhaozhou’s exchanges and sayings, in the text re-edited in the eleventh century by Chengti, abbot of Qixian on Mount Lu, as preserved in the Guzunsu yulu.