Song of the Precious Mirror Samadhi
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The Song of the Precious Mirror Samadhi (
Dating and attribution
The poem is first mentioned in Juefan Huihong's biographical compilation of 1119, the Chanlin sengbao zhuan (Chronicle of the
The scholar Morten Schlütter notes that the poem's provenance is doubtful given the way it came to Huihong, and furthermore the style differs substantially from works of the era that Huihong attributes it to. Most later historical sources, such as the Zengaku daijiten, the Bussho kaisetsu daijiten, and Shinsan zenseki mokuroku, attribute the poem to Dongshan Liangjie rather than Yunyan, although again, neither is likely to be the true author.[1]
According to Schlütter "the text is very different in style and character from the early Caodong records, and it clearly cannot be taken as evidence for the presence of a silent illumination approach in the early Caodong tradition. the inclusion of the “Baojing sanmei” in the Sengbao zhuan together with Huihong’s attached remarks, however, does indicate that the “Baojing sanmei” circulated as a work of the early Caodong tradition by the beginning of the twelfth century."[1]
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References
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