"Zong Jing Lu" is a very important work in the history of Buddhism in East Asia. It was written by Yongming Yanshou (904-976), a Chan monk in the Five Dynasties period, with a total of 100 vo-lumes. Yanshou takes “one heart taught under Chan” as the core principle and governs all the thoughts and practices of Buddhism in the past period. In the Song Dynasty, "Zong Jing Lu" was re-cognized as the orthodox doctrine of Buddhism and included in the Tibetan Tripitaka. It not only had a profound impact on the future generations of China, but also on Buddhism in Korea and Japan. This lecture will briefly introduce the ideological content of “Zong Jing Lu" and its different acceptance in China, North Korea, and Japan, and then discuss the role of "Zong Jing Lu" in the process of the prosperity of Chan in China.

Professor Mikiyasu Yanagi received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 2013 and is currently an associate professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia of the Tokyo University. He mainly studies the history of Chinese Buddhist thought. He is the Author of Single-mindedness and Ten Thousand Dharma: Research on Yanshou (co-authored, China Religious Culture Publisher, 2018), Reedited Research on Yongming Yanshou and "Zong Jing lu": Single-mindedness by Chinese Buddhism (single author, Hozokan, 2015), Research on Saichō and Kukai's versions of Sanjiao buqilun (co-authored, Kokusho kankokai, 2016 to be published). His representative papers include The Formation and Transformation of the Legend that Yongming Yanshou Used State Funds to Purchase and Release Captive Animals (Studies in Zen Buddhism 100, 2022), The Position of Yanshou: The Transition Period of the Times Chan in Waiting (China: Society and culture 37, 2022) and so on.