Concerning the establishment of the Jingangjing jieyi 金剛經解義 （Z 459）, which has been said to have been written by Liuzu Huineng 六祖慧能, I once published my conclusion that it was compiled in the end of the 8th or the beginning of the 9th century by the Heze School 荷澤宗, by comparing its terminology and ideas with various Heze School writings. The basis of the examination was my own theory of the gradual establishment of the Platform Sūtra 六祖壇經.
In recent years, however, I have abandoned this theory and expressed new views on the establishments of works of Heze Shenhui 荷澤神會 and the Heze school. In this article I reexamine this issue based on a new premise, and reconfirme the previous conclusion.
