Updates

NOTE:

Each fortnight, any progress or completed drafts will be noted on this page. The latest additions will be found at the top of the page, whereas earlier progress will be noted the lower one scrolls down the page.

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Project Progress Log:

01/11/2025:

The next eight texts: TEXT 61, TEXT 74, TEXT 75, TEXT 109, TEXT 112, TEXT 122, TEXT 145 & TEXT 147 have been added to the Saichō Repository 最澄典藏 Project:

• The Contemplating Mind [as the] Unconditioned Buddhānusmṛti 觀心無作念佛 (TEXT 61)
• Words in Praise of the Letter “A” 阿字贊語 (TEXT 74)
• A Dharma Transmission Document of Dengyō Daishi [Saichō] 傳教大師付法文 (TEXT 75)
• An Account of the Main Image of the Konpon Chūdō 根本中堂本尊事 (TEXT 109)
• An Account of the Nine Halls [on Mount Hiei] 九院事 (TEXT 112)
• The Account of the Mountain King Bestowing the Four Teachings upon Tiantai Dashi [Zhiyi] 山王授四教於天台大師事 (TEXT 122)
• The Command to Lecture upon the Methods of Tiantai at the Takaosanji [Temple] 高雄山寺講天台法門勅 (TEXT 145)
• The Imperial Declaration Regarding [Saichō’s Petition] to Enter the Tang 入唐勅宣 (TEXT 147)

16/10/2025:

The next four texts: TEXT 52, TEXT 96, TEXT 124, & TEXT 156 have been added to the Saichō Repository 最澄典藏 Project:

• The Essentials of the Twenty-eight Chapters of the Dharma Flower Sūtra 法華二十八品肝要 (TEXT 52)
• [The Account of] an Exchange while in Tang [China] 在唐問答 (TEXT 96)
• The Concise Liturgy for Sannō [Gongen] 山王畧式 (TEXT 124)
• Certification from Venerable Xingman 行滿和上印信 (TEXT 156)

08/09/2025:

The next two texts: TEXT 110, & TEXT 157 have been added to the Saichō Repository 最澄典藏 Project:

• The Main Image of the Ichijō Shikan’in [Entails] the Two Buddhas of Śākyamuni and Bhaiṣajyaguru in a Single Buddha-name 一乘止觀院本尊以一佛名釋迦藥師二佛事 （TEXT 110）
• The Dharma Transmission Document from Venerable Daosui 道邃和尚付法文 (TEXT 157)
  

18/08/2025:

The next three texts: TEXT 10, TEXT 21, & TEXT 108, have been added to Saichō Repository 最澄典藏 Project:

• Petitions on Putting Forward the Kenkairon 上顯戒論表 (TEXT 10)
• The Written Vows [for the] Tiantai Bodhisattva Precepts 天台菩薩戒御發願文 (TEXT 21)
• A Verse Recited in Praise of the Three Buddhas 三佛禮誦文 (TEXT 108)

02/08/2025:

The next three texts: TEXT 23, TEXT 69, & TEXT 91, have been added to Saichō Repository 最澄典藏 Project:

• The Prefaces & Colophon to Published Editions of “The Treatise Revealing the Precepts” 刊行顯戒論序並跋 (TEXT 23)

• Petition Requesting [Permission] to Enter the Tang in Search of Instruction 請入唐請益表 (TEXT 69)

• A Tract on the Bloodline of the Teacher to Student Transmission 師資相承血脈文 (TEXT 91)

19/07/2025:

• A Prediction on the Lamp Light [During] the End [of the] Dharma [Age] 末法燈明記 (TEXT 15)

06/07/2025:

The next three texts: TEXT 8, TEXT 104, & TEXT 155, have been added to Saichō Repository 最澄典藏 Project:

• Petition Requesting [Permission to] Institute the use of the Mahāyāna Precepts 請立大乘戒表 (TEXT 8)
• The Record of the Transmission of the Dharma Flower School 法華宗傳記 (TEXT 104)
• A Broad Outline for the Study of the Dharma Gates of the Tiantai School 學天台宗法門大意 (TEXT 155)

21/06/2025:

The next three texts: TEXT 5, TEXT 100, & TEXT 123, have been added to Saichō Repository 最澄典藏 Project:

• Petition Requesting [Permission to Ordain] Bodhisattva Home-leavers 請菩薩出家表 (TEXT 5)
• Clarifications which give rise to an understanding of the Sublime Awakening of the Tiantai Dharma Flower School 天台法華宗生知妙悟決 (TEXT 100)
• The Account of the Manifestation of the Mountain King in the Bamboo Thicket, at the Shikan-In [Temple on Mount Hiei] 止觀院藂篠中山王垂迹事 (TEXT 123)

07/06/2025:

The next three texts: TEXT 2, TEXT 4, & TEXT 9, have been added to Saichō Repository 最澄典藏 Project:

• The Sources giving rise to the [Regulations for] the Annually-allotted Ordinands of the Tendai Dharma Flower School (Tendai Hokke Shū)天台法華宗年分縁起 (TEXT 2)
• The Regulations for Students to be Admitted to the Courses at the Tendai Hokke-In Temple on Mount Hiei 比叡山天台法華院得業學生式 (TEXT 4)
• The Student Name-register for the Annually-allotted Ordinands of the Tendai Dharma Flower School 天台法華宗年分得度學生名帳 (TEXT 9)

24/05/2025:

The next three texts: TEXT 3, TEXT 12, & TEXT 128, have been added to Saichō Repository 最澄典藏 Project:

Regulations for the Students of the Mountain Lineage 山家學生式 (TEXT 3)

The Last Words of Konpon Daishi [Saichō] at the end of his life 根本大師臨終遺言 (TEXT 12)

A Poem [on the occasion] of Visiting the Mausoleum of Prince Shōtoku of Shitennōji [Temple] in the 7^th year of Kōnin (816 A.D.) 弘仁七年謁四天王寺聖徳太子廟詩 (TEXT 128)

10/05/2025:

The first two texts of the The Saichō Repository 最澄典藏 Project have now been added:

The Written Vows [of Saichō] 願文 (TEXT 1)

The Bloodline [of the Transmission] for the Sublime Dharma of the Lotus Flower Sūtra which frees [beings] from Saṃsāra 妙法蓮華經出離生死血脈 (TEXT 98)