Worked as amanuensis 筆受 in the teams of Narendrayaśas and Jñānagupta. The dates of Fei’s birth and death are unknown. The last date we have for his activity is the date upon which LDSBJ was submitted to the throne. LDSBJ is commonly dated in the literature to 597, but as Palumbo has pointed out, the exact date upon which Fei submitted it to the throne (Kaihuang 開皇 17.12.23) corresponds to February 4, 598; see Palumbo, review of Storch (H-Buddhism, April 2017): n. 4; T2034 (XLIX) 120b10 (the date is carried only in the Korean version of the canon, which formed the basis for the Taishō, and is missing in SYMP; but it is still the most precise information we have on this date). We know Fei was active by 562 because he reports that he saw with his own eyes the self-immolation of Sengya 僧崖 (488-562, on whom see Benn 2007: 209-212) in Chengdu 成都 on that date; T. 2034 (XLIX) 101a14-15; Ōuchi (2013): 73.
Date: fl. 597
| Text | Role | Is preferred? | Has other assertions? | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| author | No | Yes | [T] T = CBETA [Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association]. Taishō shinshū daizōkyō 大正新脩大藏經. Edited by Takakusu Junjirō 高楠順次郎 and Watanabe Kaigyoku 渡邊海旭. Tokyo: Taishō shinshū daizōkyō kankōkai/Daizō shuppan, 1924-1932. CBReader v 5.0, 2014. | |
| forger | No | Yes | [Tan 1991] Tan Shibao 譚世保. Han Tang Foshi tanzhen 漢唐佛史探真. Guangzhou: Zhongshan daxue chubanshe, 1991. |