Bridging the Gap: Zongmi’s Strategies for Reconciling Textual Study and Meditative Practice

會通禪教－宗密融合研教與習禪的策略

Peter N. Gregory

《中華佛學學報》 30期 (2017/07) Pp. 89-124

摘要

There is a long-standing and deep-rooted tension that runs through the Buddhist tradition between what could be characterized as meditative practice and textual study. It emerges with the early communities, is manifested in different forms throughout the history of the tradition, and is very much alive today. This paper examines some of the ways in which this tension plays out in Zongmi’s most ambitious, original, and systematically articulated work, Comprehensive Preface to the Collected Writings on the Source of Chan (禪源諸言全集都序)，which was written in 833. This work is most famous for its multifaceted attempt to reconcile the doctrinal teachings of the different ＂philosophical＂ schools (such as Huayan) with the different traditions of Chan prevalent m his day，as instantiated m the divide between textualists and meditators. The paper interrogates this issue by offering a close reading of a critical passage at the beginning of the Preface, where Zongmi lays out his main, overarching reason for composing the text. This passage is of special interest because in it Zongmi gives an account of what might be called an ＂enlightenment experience＂ that he had, which provides the basis on which he claims unique authority to be able to resolve the central problem that the text addresses: to bridge the gap between textualists and meditators so as to make the tradition whole again.

關鍵字

Zongmi ； Chan ； Huay an

並列摘要

研讀經教與習襌實修之間，在佛教傳統中長期存在一種根深蒂固的衝突。它促成早期宗派的出現，並在整個歷史上呈現許多不同的形式，且一直到今天還很活躍。本文研究宗密最具雄心、創見和系統表達的《襌源諸詮集都序》（寫於833年）中，所談到一些這種衝突的形式。這本著作最有名的是它多方面的嘗試，以調和不同的教派（如華嚴）與當時流行的襌宗分支的義理主張，如所舉講者與襌者之間的分歧。本文透過仔細閱讀該序言開頭的一個關鍵段落來探討這個問題，其中宗密提出了他編纂該書的主要原因。這段文中特別有意思的是，宗密敘述他本人的悟境為權威來解決該文所涉及的核心問題：會通襌教以整全佛教。

並列關鍵字

宗密 ； 襌 ； 華嚴

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