There exist two catalogues of the Sixi 思渓 edition of the Tripiṭaka: First is the Huzhou Sixi Yuanjue chanyuan xindiao dazangjing mulu 湖州思渓円覚禅院新彫大蔵経目録, known as the catalogue of the Sixi Yuanjue chanyuan, or the early Sixi catalogue; second is the Anjizhou Sixi fabao Zifuchan si dazangjing mulu 安吉州思渓法宝資福禅寺大蔵経目録, known as the catalogue of the Sixi Zifuchan si, or the later Sixi catalogue.
Concerning the relationship of those two catalogues, two distinct opinions were presented. Ono Genmyō 小野玄妙 pointed out the existence of two kinds of book formats, i.e., the scroll format and the binding format, in the copies of the Sixi edition of the Tripiṭaka. Ogawa Kan’ichi 小川貫弌 assumed that the copies of scroll format were published in the Yuanjue chanyuan and the copies of binding format were published in the Zifuchan si.
Ogawa’s opinion has not been paid attention to so far, but it provides a clue as to the identification of the revision which is supposed to have been introduced into the later publication. In this article, I verify Ogawa’s opinion by analyzing the engraver’s names of both publications, and prove that copies of the scroll format were published in the Yuanjue chanyuan.
