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On
Huize
of
Huichang
si
and
Wutaishan
Worship
in
Early
Tang
ITO
Makoto
Introduction
In
his
IIitayanJ'iprg
zhuap!iiiftwffiXEE
(hereafter:
HtzayanMemoirs,the
sUtrahereafL
ter:HleiayanJ'ing),Fazang
Visu
(643-712)
frequently
mentionsWutaishan
iilftLIa
orQingliangshan
?fith
LLI,
which was believedtobe
the sacred abode of MabjuSri(Ch.
Wenshushili
JkiskenfU
)
. YbshizuYbshihidepoints
out thatthis
emphasis onWutaishan
re-flects
one ofFazang's
"intentions"fbr
writing theHtzayanMbmoirs, and thatit
served as acatalyst
fbr
thelater
fiourishing
ofWutaishan worship. i) But whydid
Fazang show such akeen interestinWutaishan worship, which
has
hardly
any connection tehis
Huayan
thoughtor hismonastic Iineage?2) Thispaperaims toexamine Wutaishanworship
in
earlyTang,
whichfbrms
thebackdrop
toFazang'sinterest.
by
fbcusing
on the tripstotheregionby
Huize
kue
of theHuichang sif2?g<F
during
theLongshuo
era(661-663)
.1.
Huize's
Trips
to
Wutaishan
Wutaishan,inwhat
is
now the ShanxiProvince,was reveredin
ancientChina
as thehal-lowed
ground of sacred immortals(shenxian
kEIimb)
. Itis
said tohave
become
aBuddhist
3)
Later,placeof sanctity around theNorthernWei.
people
identifiedthemountain withthe
abede ofMafljuSri,
Qingliangshan,
mentionedin
theHiiayanl-ing[Tbisho
9,
p.
590a].
Ac-cording to
(ht
eingliangzhuani5?fithiX
(hereafier:
Oldeingliang
Memoirs)by
Hui-xiang
reJB:
(mid-7th
toearly 8thcentury) , itwas Huize'stripsthatmade"the
sacred sites
of
Qingliang
increasingly
famous
in
and around thecapital"(7fi2Elireut,
EewS(X)
[Taisho
51,p.1098c]
in
the early Tang. During the 8th century, Amoghavajra(Ch.
Bukong ]f<
ig)
, ChengguanEen,
and Fazhaotk
Hg,,
among others, would makeWutaishan
a major religious destination.
Although contemporary works such asJ\tzgaoseng zhuan
Mfi'
refi,
.li shenzhou sanbao-1141-(48) On Huize ofHuichang si and Wutaishan Worship in Early Tang (M , ITo)
gantong
lu
E
神州 三 宝 感 通録 (hereafter:Ganto
ngRecords
),and
Fayuan
zhulin 法 苑 珠林 recount Huize’s trips to
Wutaishan
,
little
is
known
ofhislife
.Even
his
nameis
unclear .Fazang calls him Huiyi 会頤, while others mostly refer to him as Huize.
1.1. Otd
eing
・liang MemoirsThe Old
2ingliang
Memoirsj
s the oldest extant material exclusivelyfocused
on Wutai−shan worship . Huixiang writes about his trips to Wutaishan
in
667
and669
, and the Iatest date mentioned in the text is 679. Further,
Huixiang
refers toGaozong
.
高宗, who reigned
until
683
, as the “Present Emperor”Ginshang
今上 ).Therefbre
, scholars generally
believe
it
w ・・c・mpl ・t・d
・・m ・tim・ b・tween ・679・and ・684. ‘)Th・
Old
・ei
。gli。 。g・M 。m 。irs・h
・, a ・el−atively detailed passage on Huize’s trip.
During the Longshuo era, frequent Imperial orders made Huize of Huichang si in the West capital
visit
Qingliangshan
, with lnner Pa[ace attendant fan−flag canier Zhang Xinghong and ethers , to re−search sacred sites. Huize and others ...leading over a dozen members , including Lu Xuanlan of
Wutai County and painter Zhang Gongrong , proceeded together to climb the Middle Terrace peak.
When they were still a hundred bu歩 [about l 50 meters ]asvay , they saw a Buddha statUe in the
distance. Appearing extremely lifelike, it moved its limbs about
, going back and forth, and looking
back at them . As they gradually got closer , it
became more and more vivid . At a distance of five bu
[about 8 meters ],it suddenly vanishod ...In廿ont ofapagoda , (thc painter)Zhang Gongrong was
sent to reftrbish an old Buddha statue. Just as he価 shed , they heard the sound of a giant bell...
Hujze and the ethers cQmpleted their task under lmperial order , and returned to report all the auspi − cious signs they had witnessed . Prefoundly fUlfilling the Imperial edict , the sacred sites of
Qingli
−ang became increasingly famous in and around the capital , and Mafiju≦ri’s sacred teachings helped
spread the (Buddhist)way ...Also, Huize made a sma 正1 screen ofapicture of the (Wutai)moun −
tain, and authored a brief single−volume memoir . lt is said to have circulated widely in the three
districts in and around the capita1 .
唐 龍朔 年中, 頻 勅西京 会 昌寺 沙門会 饋 共 内侍掌扇張行 弘等, 往 清 涼山, 検行聖 迹.蹟等 ...井 将五 台県 呂玄 覧, 書 師張 公栄 等十余人, 共 往中台之 上. 未至台百歩 ,遙見仏像. 宛若 真容 ,揮 動 手足, 循 還顧 盻, 漸 漸至 近, 展転分 明.去 余五歩, 忽然 冥滅 ....又 於塔 前, 遣 栄 粧 修 故 仏 . 点 眼 纔畢, 並 聞洪 鐘 之 響 ,...頤等, 既承国命, 目覩佳祥, 具已奏 聞. 深称 聖 旨. 於是, 清 涼 聖跡, 益 聴京 畿, 文殊 宝 化, 昭揚 道路 ....蹟, 又 以此 山図為 小 帳 ,述 略伝一巻. 広行三輔云.(Taisho 51,p .1098b−c)
Although Huixiang vividly
depicts
Huize
’s activities, ambiguities remain .He
does
notrecord the
dates
of the ‘‘frequent
Imperial orders .”Huize’s screen painting and thebrief
memoir are not extant;
hence
, thereis
no way ofknowing
how
it
may or may nothave
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Daoxuan
道 宣 (596−667
)finished
comPiling theGanton9
Reco
「ds
in
thefi
「styea
「ofLinde (
664
)[Taisho 52,p
.435a ].This makeshis
the earliest extant account of Huize’s trip.Daoxuan
writes :“ln
the first year of ]麁mg ’sLongshuo
(661),an Imperial order wasgiven
to makeHuiohang
si monk Huize visit Wutaishan to repair temples andpagodas
”(唐龍朔元年, 下勅令会 昌寺僧会 蹟往五 台山修理寺塔.)[Taisho 52, p.422c コ.He
goes
on todepict
the natUral surroundings andhistorical
sites ofWutaishan
in
considerabledetail
. Then,he
gives
adetailed
account of Huize ’s second trip.
In the second year of Longshuo ofthe Present Emperor (662),Huize was made to go there again ,
with oMcials and assistants, money and valuables , to repair old temples. Huize , together with a
cheng 承 [oMcial ]ef Wutai County and an entourage of more than twenty people, immediately
paid a visit to the Middle Terrace peak, and witnessed a stone statUe sitUated by a cliff moving its
body and arms about . On reaching the place of the statUe, they were utterly disappointed to find that it was
just
a ro¢k...(Huize)made an artisan repair two pagodas, and placed a statUe of MafijuSrinear the pagoda . Sudden且y they heard the sound of a bell between the pagedas , ringing out repeat −
edly and ceaselessly .
今上龍朔二 年, 又 令 蹟往, 井 吏 力財帛往 修理故 寺 . 蹟 与五 台県承 匚
= 丞]并 将 従二 十 余
人,直 詣 中台. 見石像 臨崖 搖動 身 手. 及至 像所 乃是 方 石悽然多感....令作工 修理二塔 井
文殊像徙倚 塔辺. 忽 聞塔 問鍾声 振発 連椎 不已.(Taisho 52
, p.422c )
This
passage
tells us thatHuize
visited Wutaishanin
661
and662
.Repairs
of templesand
pagodas
seem tohave
taken place onboth
occasions ,but
accounts of the second trip,with abundant
human
andfinancial
resources, roughly match thosein
theOld
gingliang
Memoirs . From this
, we may surrnise that Huize ’
s screen painting and
brief
memoir werecompleted after the
662
trip.2
.Who
Ordered
Huize
to
Visit
VVutaishan
?Let us now examine some aspects of
Huize
’s trips that maybe
relevant toFazang
’sHuayan
Memoirs
.
It
wouldbe
natUral to presume that the“lrnperial orders ” (chi 勅)sendingHuize
onhis
way were ediots
by
the emperorGaozong
』 owever , Wang Junzhongbelieves
that theEm
−
press
Wu
Zetian武則天 took theinitiative
.Wang
argues thatGaozong
sufferedfrom
gout
and was nearly
blind
after 660;hence
,Empress
Wu
effectively controlled state affairs.Wang also
points
out that theOld
2ingliang
Memoirs
, at the end of its account of Huize,一 1143 一
(50)
On Huize ofHuichang siand WutaishanWbrship inEariyTlang(M.
ITO)states thatonly thespiritually profbund can understand the "ambition embraced
by
theSa-cred
Empress"
(shenghou
zhi suo zhiagJfiZjlFiEulr,)
[[Ibisho
51,
p.
1098c].
Wangattri-butes
Empress Wu's strong orientation towardsBuddhism
asthe
reasonfbr
herinterestinWutaishan.6)
As we saw from the account inthe
Old
eingliang
ILtfemoins,
Huize was accompanied byan official of the
Inner
Palace
(hougong
thP;).
Thismay also refiect EmpressWu's
in-volvement inHuize'sentcrprise.
If
it
wasindeed
Empress Wu's initiativethatsent Huize toWutaishan,
how
is
thisfact
significant?
Here,
Fazangbecomes
relevant.wny
did
he
emphasizeWutaishan
worshipin
his
HtzayanMemoins?Inthe HLiayan Mlamoins,
Fazang
incorporates
various contemporary religious trends,such as the
beliefin
Ksitigarbha
(Ch.
Dizang ±[lles)
Bedhisattva.7) Therefore,we canpre-sume thatthegrowing popularityof
Wutaishan
worship sinceHuize's
tripscouldhave
mo-tivatedFazang toinclude
it
in
his
work. 8)However, Yoshizu haspointedout thatthere
is
a "public"(6yake
1]t)
chaTacter totheHitayan
Migmoing,
andthat
it
is
virtually a declarationof Fazang's establishment of theHuayan zong.
Yoshizu
notes Fazang'slavishpraiseofEmpress Wu. Itcomes after thelife-story ofFazang's master Zhiyan
igva,
whichYbshizu
sees as a crux oftheHheayan
Mlem-oirs.9) We sense
political
intentionsbehind
Fazang's
authorship: a strongdesire
topraise
Empress Wu and topropagate
the
Huayan
zongby
leveraging
her
powers.
Therefore,ifin
fact,
it
was Emp;essWu
whohad
giventheImperial
orders toHuize,Fazang may wellhaveemphasized Wutaishanworship tofbrwardhispoliticalgoals.
3.
Fazang's
Huayan
Memoirs
andHuize's
[Ilrips
toWutaishan
Ybshizu
notes thatHuayan-centered
practiceandits
auspicious signs are whatFazang
emphasized most inthelfuayan
Mbmoins,
but
Ybshizu
pointsout two other majorcharac-teristics:
(1)
the"public"or political
intentions
with Empress Wuin
mind; and(2)
em-phasison Wutaishan worship.
However,
the connectionbetween
these
two aspects is un-clear. Ybshizuargues thatFazang
himselfwasn't
especially attracted toWutaishanworship.Rather,he wrote about
people
with tiestothesacred mountainbecause
theyfu1fi11ed
his
criteria fbrchoosing life-stories:stories of those who specialized inHuayan-centered
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)the Huayan Memoirs
focusing
onHuayan
specialists as the mainbody
.The
aimis
to senda message to Empress Wu on the sacred powers of the
HuayanJ
’ing
andhis
superior capac −ity
・i
・・P・・P
・g
・ti・g
it・w ・rship.’°)H・w ・v・r, refe・ence ・t・ W ・tai・h・n ・re p・esent th…gh
・utthe work .
How
, then, can we comprehensively understand theHu
のyan Memoirs , while inco耳)orat−ing the two major characteristics Y6shizu
has
pointed out ?Thisbecomes
possible
if
weposit the above
political
intention
as a reasonfor
Fazang
’sinterest
towardsWutaishan
wor −ship .
Because
it was Empress Wu , not EmperorGaozong
, who sentHuize
toWutaishan
and
initiated
a new trend ofMafijuSri
andHu
のyan /’ing worship , Fazang ’s emphasis on
Wutaishan can
be
seen as an eff()rt to align himselfwith the Empress.
ln
theHuayan
Memoirs
, Fazang states that Huize, onhis
visit to Wutaishan, paid obei
−
sance to the l O6−year−old monk Mingyao 明曜 [Taisho
51
,
P
.169c
],Mingyao was a fヒ1−
low practitioner of the
famous
‘‘Observation
of
Rays
ofBuddha
” 1皿editation (Foguangguan 仏 光 観)pioneered
by
the monkJietuo
解 脱。Huayan
Memoirs
andOld
eingliang
Memoirs
devote
much space topraising
Jietuo as aprominent
Wutaishan monk 「raisho 51,P
。169a−c,P
.1096a−
b
].It
is
notable that at the end ofJietuo
’slife
−story,Fazang
recountsHuize’
s third trip to
Wutaishan
.The name of
Qingliang
has now been revived . In September of the first year of Linde of the PresentEmperor, Huiyi of Huichang si and gztoyi果毅 [military officer ]Zhen WanfU were given lmperial
orders to offer monastic robes to the remains (ofJietUo )...Devotees fをom far and wide all remem − ber forever the long−gone sacred manifestations (of Jietuo)witnessed there. Jietuo’s words were
indeed true.
清 涼之号 於茲 復 興 .及 今上麟 徳元年九 月, 勅会昌寺沙 門会 頤果毅 甄万福, 送衲 袈 裟奉 其
遺 陰....自遐邇帰心 之士 ,莫不永懐斯地遠験 . 脱言 信矣 .(Taisho・51
,p.169c) Fazang’
s
last
statement refers to Jietuo’sprophecy
at the time of his deathin
642
;“Aftermy
death
, there will
be
a great person who will honor my name ”(我 没 後 当有 大 人 顕 我 名 也 )匸
Taisho
51,p.169c].Fazang
claims that Huize’s third trip to Wutaishanin
664
un−der
lmperial
(in
fact
Empress
Wu
’s)orders fUlfilled JietUo’s prophecy. However , the Oldgingliang
Memoirs narrates adifferent
story. It saysthat
the trip was madeby
two men,
Yinzhen
殷 甄 andWanfU
万 福, not Huize and Zheng WanfU , lookingfor
chrysanthemums,
which were thought to
be
an elixir [Taisho
51
,p.1094c].
Whatever
the truth maybe
,by
praising
Huize
’sthird
trip toWutaishan
as a sacred deed, Fazang also effectively praisesEmpress
Wu
’sBuddhist merits .一 1145 一
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52
) On Huize of Hu量chang si and Wutaishan Worship in Early Tang (M . ITo)Conclusion
In this paper, we
looked
at the accounts of Huize of Huichang si’s trips to Wutaishan. If
we take his
deeds
and the subsequentflourishing
ofWutaishan
worship tohave
been
initi
−ated
by
Empress
Wu
, we can see Fazang’s politicalintentions
behind
the emphasis onWutaishan worship
in
his Huayan Me 〃loir.g. Fazang’s account of a third tripby
Huize alsoillustrates
this point.
Y6shizu
notes thatFazang
was nothimself
adevotee
ofWutaishan
worship .Then
how
did Fazang understand or evaluate it?This is a topic that I hope to pursue her. My ten−
tative view is that Fazang’s political inclination limited his ability to appreciate the depth
offaith and practices exercised
in
theWutaishan
region .Notes1
) Y6shizu [1991:156].
2)For discussions on the characteristics of Huayan thought in the Wutaishan region and Chang ,an
area , see K ()
j
ima [1991 ].3)Hibino and Ono [1995:72−73 ].
4)Hibino and Ono [1995:61 ], Ibuki[1987:35 ].However, Yoshizu argues that it was written in
the early 8th centUry under the infiuence ofFazamg ’s Huayan Memoirs (Yoshizu [1991:163]).Ihad
earlier taken the same view (lt6 [2014:21 ]);however ,1 may need to reexamine my position.
5
)YamamotO Kenji points out that there is a Concise Memoir (〜ズ肱 駕 ∫加 η (Sho
’
ryo−san rγakz{den
清 涼 山略伝 )in one volume listed in the catalogue oftexts brought back te Japan in 847 by Emiin円
仁,but the volume itself is not extant (Yamamoto [1995;62 ]).
6 )Wang [1998:ll].An account of Gaozong’s illness and Empress Wu ’s de facto takeover can be
fbund in the Oid Book of Tang(Jiu Tang shu 旧唐書 )volume 5.
7 )See It6[2014:23−26 ].
8 ) It6匚2014:22−23 ].
9
)See Yoshizu[1991;166コand Taisho 51,PP.163b− 164b.10) Ybshizu[1991;156− 157, 167− 168].
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