《徑山藏》文獻特色與史料價值

The Literary Features of the Jingshan Canon and its Value as a Historical Source

This article is a study of Jingshan canon, also known as the Jiaxing or fangce canon, carved and published between the Wanli era of the late Ming dynasty and the Jiaqing era of the Qing dynasty. It carries out a philological study of the format of the printed texts in the Jingshan canon, investigating the structure of its catalogue and the characteristics of the print layout. From the perspective of print culture, it describes the Jingshan canon's continuities with previous canons, and shows the achievements of this contemporary project of compiling and publishing the Jingshan canon. Through an analysis of the features of Ming and Qing Buddhist literature, we have described the Jingshan canon's unique textual features and its value as historical source-material, showing its cultural contributions and its role in the history of the transmission of Buddhist culture and the development of the Chinese Buddhist canon.