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ExaminationsCBDB
Record
Rank
科舉: 進士(籠統)
第三甲第一百零三名
科舉: 鄉貢舉人
學校: 生員(庠生)
WorksCBDB
Title
Role
Year
Era
象山先生要語
編纂者
耿天臺先生文集:二十卷
權子 一卷
撰著者
權子五則
撰著者
碩輔寶鑒
撰著者
先進遺風
撰著者
庸言各集
撰著者
Citations
[1]Identity, dates, and namesThe principal records give 1524–1596, while the authority entry gives 1597 as the death year; they identify him as a Ming official and thinker or Neo-Confucian scholar and preserve his courtesy names, sobriquets, and late Tiantai appellation.
CBDBGeng Dingxiang (124891)The main record supplies the name, dates, dynasty, and thinker classification; the aliases identify Zailun, Zicheng, and Duanzhi as courtesy names and Chudong and Tiantai as sobriquets or studio names.
Souyun耿定向 (51148)The profile and biographies give 1524–1596, list Zailun, Chudong, and Tiantai Xiansheng, and connect his late Tiantai lectures with the Master Tiantai name.
WikidataGeng Dingxiang (Q11610842)The entity and alias data identify Geng Dingxiang, preserve the English and Chinese forms of his names, and give the 1524 and 1596 date values.
DILA Buddhist Authority Database耿定向 (A008541)The authority entry identifies him as a Ming official, gives the 1597 death range, preserves Zailun, Chudong, and Master Tiantai, and describes his late academy and teaching.
[2]Native placeThe common native place is Huang’an in Huguang, identified with present-day Hong’an in Hubei; Macheng is an alternative native-place entry.
CBDBGeng Dingxiang (124891)The address entries mark both Macheng and Huang’an as basic native-place addresses.
Souyun耿定向 (51148)The profile and biographies give Huguang Huang’an and identify it with present-day Hong’an, Hubei.
DILA Buddhist Authority Database耿定向 (A008541)The birthplace field gives Huang’an.
[3]FamilyThe kinship records give his parents, grandparents, siblings, wife, son, and grandson.
Souyun耿定向 (51148)The biography confirms the teaching relationship with the younger brothers Geng Dingli (耿定理) and Geng Dingli (耿定力).
[4]ExaminationsHe placed twenty-seventh in the 1552 provincial examination, fourth in the 1556 metropolitan examination, and one hundred and third in the palace examination, then underwent Ministry of Personnel observation and entered the Office of Travelers.
CBDBGeng Dingxiang (124891)The examination and school entries preserve the ranks 103, 4, and 27.
Souyun耿定向 (51148)The biography specifies the 1552 and 1556 examination sequence and the Ministry of Personnel and Office of Travelers appointments.
[5]Early career and impeachmentHe became a censor, inspected Gansu, received the Yunnan censorial appointment, and was involved in an impeachment whose six charges are assigned to Wu Peng in one wording and Dong Fen in another.
Souyun耿定向 (51148)The biographies describe his censorial career, inspection of Gansu, Yunnan appointment, impartial impeachments, and the six charges against Wu Peng.
CBDBGeng Dingxiang (124891)The office entries list the Gansu and Yunnan censorial assignments, including the Jiajing thirty-ninth year for Yunnan.
DILA Buddhist Authority Database耿定向 (A008541)The authority note assigns the six major charges to Dong Fen, Wu Peng’s son-in-law.
[6]Mid-career officesHe supervised the schools of South Zhili, became Vice Director of the Court of Judicial Review, was demoted at the Longqing fourth-year review, and later served in Hengzhou and the Ministry of Works.
Souyun耿定向 (51148)The biographies give the school-supervision appointment, the judicial promotion, sick leave, Gao Gong conflict, demotion, and later Hengzhou and Ministry of Works appointments.
CBDBGeng Dingxiang (124891)The office entries list a Court of Judicial Review vice-directorship, the Hengzhou judge, and the Ministry of Works Office of State Farms director; the left-right designation differs in one entry.
[7]Early Wanli officesHe was recalled to offices in the Imperial Seal Office, Court of Imperial Studs, and Censorate, retired, returned as Fujian governor in 1578, and requested retirement again in 1580; the censorial designation has right-left variation.
Souyun耿定向 (51148)The profile and chronology give the early-Wanli promotions, retirement, Fujian appointment, and later retirement request, while preserving the two censorial designations.
CBDBGeng Dingxiang (124891)The office entries list the Imperial Seal Office vice-director, Court of Imperial Studs vice-director, and Fujian governorship.
[8]Late officesHe held senior censorial, judicial, Nanjing, and revenue offices from 1584 to 1589, becoming Minister of Revenue and Supervisor of the Granaries before impeachment, illness retirement, and return home.
Souyun耿定向 (51148)The chronology gives the Wanli twelfth-to-seventeenth-year appointments and the impeachment, illness retirement, and return home.
CBDBGeng Dingxiang (124891)The office entries list the Ministry of Justice, Left Deputy Censor-in-Chief, Nanjing Right Censor-in-Chief, and Ministerial office.
[9]Death and posthumous honorsThe principal biography gives death in the eighth month of 1596 at age seventy-three, the posthumous grant of Junior Guardian of the Heir Apparent, and Gongjian; the data also preserve Gongsu as an alternative posthumous name and 1597 as an alternative death year.
Souyun耿定向 (51148)The biography gives the eighth month of 1596, age seventy-three, the posthumous grant, and Gongjian.
CBDBGeng Dingxiang (124891)The main record gives 1596 and lists the posthumous names Gongjian and Gongsu.
DILA Buddhist Authority Database耿定向 (A008541)The authority death field gives 1597 and its aliases include Gongjian.
[10]Thought and Li ZhiHis learning followed Wang Shouren, belonged to the later Yangming tradition, and was classified with the Taizhou school; his friendship and later conflict with Li Zhi culminated in attacks on Li Zhi and his expulsion from Macheng.
Souyun耿定向 (51148)The biographies state that his learning was based on Wang Shouren, place him in the later Yangming lecture world, and describe his friendship, invitation, estrangement, and criticism of Li Zhi.
DILA Buddhist Authority Database耿定向 (A008541)The authority note classifies his learning with the Taizhou school and describes the post-Fenshu attacks, heterodoxy charge, and Li Zhi’s expulsion.
[11]Academy, pupils, and influenceHe built the Tiantai Academy, taught with his younger brothers, had pupils recorded in the relationship data, promoted a corrective lecture movement, and was regarded as an antecedent of Donglin learning; Gao Panlong praised his teaching.
Souyun耿定向 (51148)The biography describes the academy, teaching with Dingli (耿定理) and Dingli (耿定力), the Master Tiantai name, lecture-movement influence, social aims, Donglin significance, and Gao Panlong’s praise.
DILA Buddhist Authority Database耿定向 (A008541)The authority note describes the academy, Master Tiantai name, and Taizhou affiliation.
CBDBGeng Dingxiang (124891)The relationship entries identify Jiao Hong, Zhu Shilu, Xia Zixiao, Wu Lin, Guan Zhidao, and Liu Yuanqing as pupils.
[12]WritingsThe listed writings and collections include Gengzi Yongyan, Xianjin Yifeng, Geng Tiantai wenji, the twenty-juan Geng Tiantai xiansheng wenji, Yongyan geji, the one-juan Quan zi, Quan zi wu ze, Shuofu baojian, Shuofu baojian yaolan, and Bingyutang yulu; Xiangshan xiansheng yaoyu was edited by him.
CBDBGeng Dingxiang (124891)The bibliography lists the Geng Tiantai collection, Quan zi, Quan zi wu ze, Shuofu baojian, Xianjin Yifeng, Yongyan geji, and the edited Xiangshan text, with editorial and authorship roles.