Text: San jie Fofa 三階佛法

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Title San jie Fofa 三階佛法 [Zhisheng 730]
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Author Xinxing 信行 [Zhisheng 730]

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[Zhisheng 730]  Zhisheng 智昇. Kaiyuan shijiao lu (KYL) 開元釋教錄 T2154 — T2154:55.678b7-c27

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[Tokuno 1990 ]  Tokuno, Kyoko. "The Evaluation of Indigenous Scriptures in Chinese Buddhist Bibliographical Catalogues." In Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha, edited by Robert E. Buswell, Jr., 31-74. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 1990. — 57

Tokuno discusses "thirty-nine texts" [sic] belonging to the Sanjie jiao that Zhisheng considered "spurious”. [Zhisheng's list at T2154:55.678b7-c27 actually lists 35 texts---MR.] He repeats the attribution of the Da Zhou lu (DZKZM) and adds his own comments. He argues “although they draw upon the scriptures, they are all fallaciously produced on the basis of the prejudiced views of his [Xinxing’s 信行] faction.” Tokuno characterises Zhisheng’s reasoning as based upon a combination of “internal evidence” and “socio-political characterisations.” Zhisheng labels the texts as “spurious” because of both their “unorthodox” messages, and the group’s controversial political status. All texts listed by Zhisheng are included in this entry.

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[Zhisheng 730]  Zhisheng 智昇. Kaiyuan shijiao lu (KYL) 開元釋教錄 T2154 — T2154:55.678b7-c27

Zhisheng identified these thirty-five Sanjie jiao texts as spurious, and states directly that they were authored by Xinxing 隋真寂寺沙門信行撰.

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[Lewis 1990]  Lewis, Mark Edward. "The Suppression of the Three Stages Sect: Apocrypha as a Political Issue." In Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha, edited by Robert E. Buswell, Jr., 207-238. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990. — 207-210

According to Lewis, all of the texts belonging to the Sanjie jiao sect were “denied legitimacy” and labelled as “apocrypha” because they challenged the efficiency of all government, the supremacy of the saṃgha, orthodox doctrine, and conventional Buddhist practice. This entry contains Zhisheng's list of thirty-five Sanjie jiao texts.

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[Lewis 1990]  Lewis, Mark Edward. "The Suppression of the Three Stages Sect: Apocrypha as a Political Issue." In Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha, edited by Robert E. Buswell, Jr., 207-238. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990. — 214-215

Lewis regards the Sanjie Fofa 三階佛法 as the central text of the Sanjie jiao sect. The Sanjie Fofa proclaims the impossibility of correct perception during the final age of the dharma, which means that perceptions must be abandoned. All of the texts of the Sanjie jiao sect, according to Lewis, were “denied legitimacy” and labelled as “apocrypha” because they challenged the efficiency of all government, the supremacy of the saṃgha, orthodox doctrine, and conventional Buddhist practice.

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