Source: Rao 1997

Rao Zongyi 饒宗頤. "Lun Sengyou" 論僧祐. Zhongguo wenhua yanjiusuo xuebao 中國文化研究所學報 6 (1997): 405-416.

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In the course of a somewhat wide-ranging discussion of Sengyou's activities, Rao takes issue with the theory espoused by unidentified foils [he probably has in mind Kōzen Hiroshi 興膳宏 --- MR] that CSZJJ T2145 might have been authored (in whole or in part?) by Liu Xie 劉勰. The main points Rao makes against this theory, and to uphold the ascription of the entire work to Sengyou, are (1) at numerous places in the text, including the prefaces to various sections, Sengyou refers to himself directly (as 祐). (2) The author of CSZJJ obviously places great importance on the preface 序 as a genre, but Liu Xie's Wen xin diao long 文心雕龍 does not treat the genre. (3) Rao also simply asserts, on the basis of a subjective assessment of the general style of CSZJJ, that it is not at all like that of Wen xin diao long, Liu Xie's representative work (411-412).

Rao also examines external historical sources, and argues that they present circumstances that do not accord with the possibility that Liu Xie composed the work. He dates CSZJJ itself [as a whole --- he never entertains the possibility that different parts might have different dates --- MR] to 508-512 or later, on the basis that it contains an account of the composition of Liang Wudi's commentary on the Perfection of Wisdom, which, according to various sources disagreeing with one another, occurred between Tianjian 7 (508) and Tianjian 14 (515) (407, 414). He argues that biographical details about Liu Xie's activities indicate that by this time, he had moved on into various posts in the civil administration (under two successive princes), and that this would make it implausible that he could have busied himself composing the CSZJJ.

Rao also adduces bylines in [the main modern edition of] CSZJJ, which from fascicle 11 onward specify that Sengyou was associated with Jianchu si 健初寺. He suggests that this might mean that fascicles 1-10 were composed in Dinglin si 定林寺, and the remainder later, after a move to Jianchu si. [However, these bylines do not uniformly all appear in this form in all extant editions of the text; the pattern differs, for example, in the version from the first Korean canon, and the Nanatsudera manuscript version --- MR.]

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 In the course of a somewhat wide-ranging discussion of Sengyou's activities, Rao takes issue with the theory espoused by unidentified foils [he probably has in mind Kozen Hiroshi 興膳宏 --- MR] that CSZJJ T2145 might have been authored (in whole or in part?) by Liu Xie 劉勰. The main points Rao makes against this theory, and to uphold the ascription of the entire work to Sengyou, are (1) at numerous places in the text, including the prefaces to various sections, Sengyou refers to himself directly (as 祐). (2) The author of CSZJJ obviously places great importance on the preface 序 as a genre, but Liu Xie's Wen xin diao long 文心雕龍 does not treat the genre. (3) Rao also simply asserts, on the basis of a subjective assessment of the general style of CSZJJ, that it is not at all like that of Wen xin diao long, Liu Xie's representative work (411-412). Rao also examines external historical sources, and argues that they present circumstances that do not accord with the possibility that Liu Xie composed the work. He dates CSZJJ itself [as a whole --- he never entertains the possibility that different parts might have different dates --- MR] to 508-512 or later, on the basis that it contains an account of the composition of Liang Wudi's commentary on the Perfection of Wisdom, which, according to various sources disagreeing with one another, occurred between Tianjian 7 (508) and Tianjian 14 (515) (407, 414). He argues that biographical details about Liu Xie's activities indicate that by this time, he had moved on into various posts in the civil administration (under two successive princes), and that this would make it implausible that he could have busied himself composing the CSZJJ. Rao also adduces bylines in [the main modern edition of] CSZJJ, which from fascicle 11 onward specify that Sengyou was associated with Jianchu si 健初寺. He suggests that this might mean that fascicles 1-10 were composed in Dinglin si 定林寺, and the remainder later, after a move to Jianchu si. [However, these bylines do not uniformly all appear in this form in all extant editions of the text; the pattern differs, for example, in the version from the first Korean canon, and the Nanatsudera manuscript version --- MR.] Sengyou, 僧祐 T2145; 出三藏記集