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Shengxue zongzhuan 聖學宗傳 "Biographies of the scholarly lines of the Saints" is a biographical collection compiled written by the Ming-period 明 (1368-1644) scholar Zhou Rudeng 周汝登 (jinshi degree 1577), courtesy name Jiyuan 繼元 or Haimen 海門, from Shengxian 嵊縣, Zhejiang. His highest office was chief minister of the Seals Office (shangbaosi qing 尚寶司卿) of the secondary capital Nanjing.
The tenor of the 18-juan long book is the blending of Neo-Confucian teachings with Buddhist concepts. The author, being in one scholarly line with the famous philosopher Wang Shouren 王守仁 (Wang Yangming 王陽明, 1472-1529) war particularly interested in statements in the writing of Confucian scholars which are similar to Buddhist ones or were directly derived from thoughts of Chan Buddhism.
Zhou Rudeng drafted a chart (Huang juan zheng xi tu 黃卷正系圖) in which he shows the continuity of philosophical thought from the time of the mythological ruler Fu Xi 伏羲 down to Song-period 宋 (960-1279) Neo-Confucians like Cheng Hao 程顥 (1032-1085), and then the split into the branch of Zhu Xi 朱熹 (1130-1200) and that of Lu Jiuyuan 陸九淵 (1139-1193). The value of the book lies in the analysis of contemporary Confucian philosophy after Wang Shouren.
A copy of the first print from 1606 is preserved in the Beijing Library 北京圖書館. A facsimile of this edition was published in 1931 by the Shanghai Hongbao Press 上海鴻寶齋.
| 1 | 伏𦏁 Fu Xi, 神農 Shen Nong, 黃帝 Huang Di, 顓頊 Zhuan Xu, 帝嚳 Di Ku, 唐堯 Tang Yao, 虞舜 Yu Shun, 大禹 Yu the Great, 臯陶 Gao Yao, 成湯 Tang the Perfect, 伊尹 Yi Yin, 傅說 Fu Yue, 泰伯 Tai Bo of Qi |
| 2 | 文王 King Wen of Zhou, 武王 King Wu of Zhou, 箕子 Prince Jizi of Shang, 周公 The Duke of Zhou, 衛武公 Duke Wu of Wei |
| 3 | 孔子 Confucius, 顔子 Yanzi, 子貞 Zizhen, 子路 Zilu, 子夏 Zixia, 漆雕開 Qidiao Kai, 曾點 Zeng Dian, 子張 Zizhang, 曾子 Zengzi, 子思 Zisi |
| 4 | 孟子 Mengzi, 荀卿 Xun Qing (Xunzi 荀子), 董仲舒 Dong Zhongshu |
| 5 | 揚雄 Yang Xiong, 王通 Wang Tong, 韓愈 Han Yu |
| 6 | 穆脩 Mu Xiu, 胡瑗 Hu Yuan, 李之才 Li Zhicai, 邵雍 Shao Yong, 周敦頤 Zhou Dunyi |
| 7 | 程顥 Cheng Hao, 程頤 Cheng Yi, 呂希哲 Lü Xizhe, 邵伯溫 Shao Bowen, 張載 Zhang Zai, 謝良佐 Xie Liangzuo, 游酢 You Zuo |
| 8 | 楊時 Yang Shi, 呂大臨 Lü Dalin, 尹焞 Yin Heng, 張繹 Zhang Yi, 羅從彦 Luo Congyan, 胡安國 Hu Anguo, 胡宏 Hu Hong, 劉子翬 Liu Ziyi, 李侗 Li Tong, 張九成 Zhang Jiucheng |
| 9 | 朱熹 Zhu Xi, 張栻 Zhang Shi, 呂祖謙 Lü Zuqian |
| 10 | 陸九淵 Lu Jiuyuan, 蔡沈 Cai Shen |
| 11 | 楊簡 Yang Jian, 真德秀 Zhen Dexiu, 許衡 Xu Heng, 吳澄 Wu Cheng, 黃澤 Huang Ze |
| 12 | 薛瑄 Xue Xuan, 吳與弼 Wu Yubi, 陳獻章 Chen Xianzhang, 陳真晟 Chen Zhensheng, 胡居仁 Hu Juren |
| 13 | 王守仁 Wang Shouren, 徐愛 Xu Ai |
| 14 | 錢德洪 Qian Dehong, 王畿 Wang Ji |
| 15 | 鄒守益 Zou Shouyi, 歐陽德 Ouyang De, 薛侃 Xue Kan |
| 16 | 王艮 Wang Gen, 黃弘綱 Huang Honggang, 何廷仁 He Tingren, 徐樾 Xu Yue |
| 17 | 羅洪先 Luo Hongxian, 趙貞吉 Zhan Zhenji |
| 18 | 王棟 Wang Dong, app. 朱恕 Zhu Ru, 韓貞 Han Zhen, 夏廷美 Xia Tingmei, 羅汝芳 Luo Rufang |