Chuanfa zhengzong ji

Chuanfa zhengzong ji (J. Denbōshōshūki; K. Chŏnpŏp chŏngjong ki 傳法正宗). “Record of the Dharma Transmission of the True Lineage”. A record of the Chan lineage compiled by the Chan monk Fori Qisong (1007–1072) and published in 1591. One of a number of “lamplight histories” (chuandeng lu) in the Chan tradition.

The Chuanfa zhengzong ji largely follows the genealogies delineated in the Jingde chuandeng lu, "with the crucial difference of accepting a roster of only twenty-four, not twenty-eight, patriarchs (zushi) in the Chan tradition."

The Digital Dictionary of Buddhism states:

The Chan monk Qisong 契嵩 wrote and revised this Chan lineage history in the 1050s after Tiantai-lineage 天台宗 critics had rediscovered and circulated the Tang monk Shenqingʼs 神清 Beishan lui 北山錄 for its skepticism about Chan lineage claims. Qisong describes Śākyamuni and a line of twenty-eight Indian patriarchs and five Chinese patriarchs and then supplies lists of the multiple lines of Dharma heirs from Huineng 慧能 up to the generation of Qisongʼs own Dharma master. The Indian patriarchs whose legitimacy had been questioned are given biographies, while the later Dharma heirs are simply listed. Unlike much other Chan literature of the period, Qisong neither favors his own Yunmen 雲門 branch nor provides stories of exemplary lives and master-disciple dialogue.

Sources

• Buswell, Robert E.; Lopez, Donald S. (2014), The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Princeton University 
• Morrison, Elizabeth. 2010. The Power of Patriarchs: Qisong and Lineage in Chinese Buddhism. Leiden; Boston: Brill.