Chan Master Zongze Cijue (1037-1106) had been stationed for a long time at Puhui Temple in Mingzhou and Hongji Temple in Zhending. He was invited to stay in Dingjinyan and was finally ordered to go south to take over the Yunmen in Changlu. However, many of his works, except for Chanyuan Qinggui that survived abroad, were included in the Dazang Xinzuan wancang jing. Among them, after the Southern Song Dynasty, only fragments survived and occasionally were included in the Lamp book or in the Buddhist scriptures, so it is difficult to show how this important Yunmen Chan master followed his teacher Fayun Faxiu and Yingfu Guangzhao. In recent years, with the compilation of the Dazu rock carvings and the Yunnan Azhali classics, the publication of the cultural relic Cijue Chanshi quanhuaji unearthed in Khara Khoto and the appearance of Cijue Chanshi yulu have been enough to answer the above. Therefore, this article is centered on the quotations in Cijue Chanshi yulu published in recent years. It reviews the credibility of these documents and their lacunae when scholars have used Chan compilations to engage in research on Chan Buddhism. Many issues discussed should be addressed more carefully, which is the focus of this article.
