On the category of East Asian Buddhist texts that matter: <i>Shengjiao</i> and <i>shōgyō</i> 聖教 as a fundamental and overlooked category of premodern East Asian Buddhists’ books
Bibliographic record
Abstract
There is an important colophon to Shinran’s 親鸞 (1173–1262) Tannishō 歎異抄[Passages Deploring Deviations of Faith] written by Rennyo 蓮如(1415–1499) where a term is used twice for sacred teachings [books]. This colophon shows that Buddhists called their important books sacred teachings [books]. Here, I introduce where the term shōgyō comes from in the East Asian Buddhist tradition – Xuanzang 玄奘 (Jp. Genjō, 602-664) and his immediate disciples, including Ci’en Ji 慈恩基 (Jp. Jion Ki, 632-682) – and how it had become a commonly used term by Buddhist scholars since the Tang (618-907) period in China, Korea, and Japan well before the time of Shinran and Rennyo.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".