Tiansheng guangdeng lu天聖廣燈錄

preface 1036lineage recordChan

Date: preface 1036
Also called: Tiansheng-era Extended Record of the Lamp
Language: Classical Chinese
Catalogue: Zokuzōkyō X.1553
Used in: Chan

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.

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Moshan and Zhixian

fascicle 13, entry for Guanxi Zhixian (X78n1553_p0479a13–a14)

Zhixian, a student of Linji, came to Moshan intending to test the nun who taught there, and if she was no good, to overturn her seat. The nun, Moshan Liaoran, sent an attendant to ask whether he had come to look at the mountain or for the dharma. For the dharma, he said. She took the high seat and he came up.

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CBETA Chinese Electronic Tripiṭaka · link
Li Zunxu 李遵勗 (comp.), Tiansheng guangdeng lu 天聖廣燈錄 (1036) · link

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