Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph ›› 2016, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (1): 31-38.doi: 10.16382/ j.cnki.1000-5579.2016.01.004

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An Philological Investigation of the Meishan Shuilu Ritual Text

HOU Chong,ZHANG Bei-Bei   

  • Online:2016-01-15 Published:2016-03-02
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Abstract: Although they are often placed in the same category, the relationship between SU Shi’s Eulogy of Shuilu Scenes and Meishan Shuilu Ritual Text has not been cleared due to limited documents. Based on the message of “the rare edition of Chan Master Fa-yong in Fayun Temple” in the brief introduction to the Eulogy, this paper finds that the Eulogy was written in 1091 and thus independent of the Shuilu rite organized by SU Shi for his dead wife in 1093. The two Buddhist records newly unearthed in Kunming show that Meishan, also called Longhua Shuilu Ritual Text, was compiled by lay Buddhist ZHANG Xing-yun and Chan Master Bao-yue in the Southern Song Dynasty. It adopts SU Shi’s Eulogy based upon YANG Er’s Shuilu Ritual Text and Zen Master Zu-jue’s Shuilu Fast Ritual Text.