Wang Xiangliu 王驤陸

Wáng Xiāngliù 王驤陸 (1885-1958)

Name 名: Zǎijī 宰基 Style name 號: Rénzhī 仁知, Rénzhī ācārya 仁知阿闍梨, Rénzhī shàngshī 仁知上師 Courtesy name 字: Xiāngliù 驤陸 Born April 16, 1885 (3/2 Guāngxù 光緒 11) in Hǎiníng County 海寧, Zhèjiāng 浙江 Died December 16, 1958 in Tiānjīn 天津

Notable Associates: Dàyú 大愚 Xiáguāng 霞光

Article editor: Erik Hammerstrom

Wáng Xiāngliù^[1] 王驤陸 (1885-1958) was the second patriarch of the Seal-Mind School 印心宗 of Esoteric Buddhism, after Dàyú 大愚, the school's founder and first patriarch.

Biography

Wáng was the son of Wáng Xīnfǔ 王欣甫. As a youth, he often accompanied his mother to Pǔtuó shān 普陀山 and other Buddhist sites, which left a lasting impression on him. In 1902 he received his Xiùcái 秀才 degree. He then studied English at St. John's University 聖約翰大學 in Shànghǎi 上海, and in 1907 became an official translator. In this capacity, he traveled to India and Southeast Asia. Upon his return, he took a job in the Běiyáng 北洋 Communications Bureau.

During this period he studied Pure Land cultivation under Xiáguāng 霞光 in Běijīng 北京. He also studied Chán 禪 as well. After that, for some ten years he worked in Chéngdū 成都, before returning to Běijīng.

In 1930, he took refuge under the monk Dàyú 大愚 in Běijīng.

From 1931 to 1941, Wáng lectured and wrote commentaries on various scriptures (listed below). It is said that he helped Carsun Chang (Zhāng Jūnmài 張君勱) at Běiijng University with certain points of Buddhist Philosophy.

During the Second Sino-Japanese war, Wáng followed the invitation of Wú Lǐmén 吳禮門, Cài Chǔáng 蔡楚昂, and Hóu Jūnlù 侯君陸 to come to Shànghǎi. In Shànghǎi he set up the Seal-Mind Hermitage 印密精舍 on Hǎiníng Road 海寧路.

After the war, he held a 49 day dharma assembly 法會 in Tiānjīn 天津 for the protection of the nation.

Important Works

• 偈瑜珈焰口
• 金剛經分段貫釋
• 金剛壽
• 六字大明咒修法
• 入佛明宗答問
• 我有煩惱嗎
• 心鍠
• 心經分段貫釋
• 修心要訣
• 學佛最初之決定
• 乙亥講演錄

Notable Students

• Lǐ Yuányīn 李元音, third patriarch of the Seal-Mind School
• Xú Héngzhì 徐恆志

Notes

1. ↑ Although the character 陸 is normally pronounced Lù, all biographies of Wáng give 相六 (xiāng liù) as a phonetic gloss for his name, indicating that it should be read as the accounting form of six (liù 六, 陸).

References

• Yú Língbō 于凌波, ed. Xiàndài Fójiào rénwù cídiǎn 現代佛教人物辭典 (A Dictionary of Modern Buddhist Persons), 2 vols. Taipei: Foguang, 2004. Pp. 1.187a-188b.
• 印心精舍