2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A Study of the Zen Thought of Da-hui

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20520036
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Chinese philosophy
Research Institution	Niigata University
Principal Investigator	NAKANISHI Hisami 新潟大学, 人文社会・教育科学系, 教授 (00143743)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2011
Keywords	大慧宗杲 / 大慧普覚禅師年譜 / 儒仏交渉
Research Abstract	This research involved an attempt to place the Zen thought of Da-hui Zong-gao within its contemporary context in Chinese intellectual history. In order to obtain a concrete picture of the relationships Da-hui had with the intellectuals("Shidafu") of his time, I attempted to make a corrected edition and Japanese translation of an important document providing information about him, the"Da-hui Pu-jue Chanshi Nianpu". This document gives the names of over 20 Shidafu, whose names are also recorded in another document describing contemporary intellectual history, the"Song-Yuan Xuean". This research therefore involved a detailed investigation of these Shidafu, including seven of them(including Zhang Jiu-cheng and Lu Ben-zhong) with whom Da-hui is described as having particularly close relationships.