| CBETA | Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association: http://www.cbeta.org |
| CHAN CANON | Zongmi’s lost collection of Chan literary materials entitled Chanyuan zhuquanji (Collection of Expressions of the Chan Source) |
| CHAN LETTER | Text formed from Zongmi’s answers to questions about Chan sent in letter form to him by Pei Xiu. It has been known by various titles such as Zhonghua chuanxindi chanmen shizi chengxi tu (Chart of the Master-Disciple Succession of the Chan Gate that Transmits the Mind Ground in China), Pei Xiu shiyi wen (Imperial Redactor Pei Xiu’s Inquiry), etc. |
| CHAN NOTES | Zongmi’s notes on Chan houses embedded in the third fascicle of his thirteen-fascicle subcommentary entitled Yuanjuejing dashu chao (Extracts from the Great Commentary on the Perfect Awakening Sutra) |
| CHAN PROLEGOMENON | Zongmi’s magnum opus on Chan, entitled Chanyuan zhuquanji duxu (Prolegomenon to the Collection of Expressions of the Chan Source) |
| DAIZŌKYŌ | Kamata Shigeo and others, eds. Daizōkyō zen-kaisetsu daijiten. Tokyo: Yūzankaku shuppan, 1998. Descriptive dictionary of texts in the Taishō Canon |
| EXCERPTS | Pŏpchip pyŏrhaeng nok chŏryo pyŏngip sagi (Chinul’s Excerpts from the Separately Circulated Record of the Dharma Collection with Inserted Personal Notes) |
| HIRAKAWA | Hirakawa Akira, ed. Bukkyō Kan-Bon daijiten/Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary. Tokyo: The Reiyūkai, 1997 |
| ISHII (1–10) | Enbun 3 (1358) Gozan edition of the Chan Prolegomenon with a modern Japanese translation in ten parts: Ishii Shudō and Ogawa Takashi. “Zengen shosenshū tojo no yakuchū kenkyū (1).” Komazawa daigaku Bukkyō gakubu kenkyū kiyō 52 (March 1994): 1–53 ——. “Zengen shosenshū tojo no yakuchū kenkyū (2).” Komazawa daigaku Bukkyō gakubu kenkyū kiyō 53 (March 1995): 37–125 ——. “Zengen shosenshū tojo no yakuchū kenkyū (3).” Komazawa daigaku Bukkyō gakubu kenkyū kiyō 54 (March 1996): 19–55 ——. “Zengen shosenshū tojo no yakuchū kenkyū (4).” Komazawa daigaku Bukkyō gakubu ronshū 27 (October 1996): 39–73 ——. “Zengen shosenshū tojo no yakuchū kenkyū (5).” Komazawa daigaku Bukkyō gakubu kenkyū kiyō 55 (March 1997): 19–39 ——. “Zengen shosenshū tojo no yakuchū kenkyū (6).” Komazawa daigaku Bukkyō gakubu ronshū 28 (October 1997): 81–110 ——. “Zengen shosenshū tojo no yakuchū kenkyū (7).” Komazawa daigaku Bukkyō gakubu kenkyū kiyō 56 (March 1998): 67–86 ——. “Zengen shosenshū tojo no yakuchū kenkyū (8).” Komazawa daigaku Bukkyō gakubu ronshū 29 (October 1998): 17–56 ——. “Zengen shosenshū tojo no yakuchū kenkyū (9).” Komazawa daigaku Bukkyō gakubu kenkyū kiyō 57 (March 1999): 51–113 ——. “Zengen shosenshū tojo no yakuchū kenkyū (10).” Komazawa daigaku Bukkyō gakubu ronshū 30 (October 1999): 59–97 |
| KAMATA | Kamata Shigeo, ed. and trans. Zengen shosenshū tojo. Zen no goroku 9. Tokyo: Chikuma shobō, 1971. Wanli 4 (1576) Korean edition of the Chan Prolegomenon and the Manji zokuzō (ZZ) Chan Letter discovered in 1910 at Myōken-ji in Kyoto |
| MIND MIRROR | Zongjinglu (Yongming Yanshou’s Record of the Axiom Mirror [=Zongjianlu/Record of the Axiom Mirror = Xinjinglu/Record of the Mind Mirror]; Taishō no. 2016) |
| QTW | Quan Tangwen. 20 vols. Imperial edition, 1814. Reprint, Taipei: Datong shuju, 1979. Complete Tang Prose |
| SHINPUKU-JI | Ishii Shudō. “Shinpuku-ji bunko shozō no Hai Kyū shūi mon no honkoku.” Zengaku kenkyū 60 (1981): 71–104. Kamakura (Ninji 2 [1241]) manuscript of the Chan Letter discovered at Shinpuku-ji in Nagoya |
| SHŪMITSU | Kamata Shigeo. Shūmitsu kyōgaku no shisō-shi teki kenkyū. Tokyo: Tokyo daigaku shuppankai, 1975 |
| T | Takakusu Junjirō and Watanabe Kaigyoku, eds. Taishō shinshū daizōkyō. 100 vols. Tokyo: Taishō issaikyō kankōkai, 1924–34 |
| UI | Ui Hakuju, ed. and trans. Zengen shosenshū tojo. 1939. Reprint, Tokyo: Iwanami shoten, 1943. Manji zokuzō (ZZ) 1601 Ming Canon edition of the Chan Prolegomenon and the ZZ Chan Letter discovered in 1910 at Myōken-ji in Kyoto |
| XIXIA | Solonin, K. J. “Hongzhou Buddhism in Xixia and the Heritage of Zongmi (780–841): A Tangut Source.” Asia Major 16, no. 2 (2003): 57–103 |
| YANAGIDA I | Yanagida Seizan, ed. and trans. Shoki no Zenshi I. Zen no goroku 2. Tokyo: Chikuma shobō, 1971 |
| YANAGIDA II | Yanagida Seizan, ed. and trans. Shoki no Zenshi II. Zen no goroku 3. Tokyo: Chikuma shobō, 1976 |
| ZZ | Dai Nippon zoku-zōkyō (Manji zokuzō). 150 cases. Tokyo: Zōkyō shoin, 1905–12 |