Source: Karashima 2013b

Karashima Seishi 辛島静志. “Was the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Compiled in Gandhāra in Gāndhārī?” ARIRIAB 16 (2013): 171-188.

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A short passage T224 (VIII) 476b17-24 is not found in other versions of the Aṣṭasāhasrikā prajñāpāramitā. Yūichi Kajiyama argued in 1976 that this passage must have been composed by *Lokakṣema. Karashima disagrees. He thinks, rather, that at the original point of the text's composition, which he thinks took place in Gandhāra, the image cult was new, and the authors of the text were critical. Subsequently, Karashima speculates, the image cult became so normalised that it could not really be criticised, and the passage was excised.

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 A short passage T224 (VIII) 476b17-24 is not found in other versions of the Astasahasrika prajnaparamita. Yuichi Kajiyama argued in 1976 that this passage must have been composed by *Lokaksema. Karashima disagrees. He thinks, rather, that at the original point of the text's composition, which he thinks took place in Gandhara, the image cult was new, and the authors of the text were critical. Subsequently, Karashima speculates, the image cult became so normalised that it could not really be criticised, and the passage was excised. T0224; 道行般若經

T152(81), which bears no title, is a version of the story of the bodhisatva Sadāprarudita 常悲菩薩, which is also found at the end of the Aṣṭasāhasrikā prajñāpāramitā.

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 T152(81), which bears no title, is a version of the story of the bodhisatva Sadaprarudita 常悲菩薩, which is also found at the end of the Astasahasrika prajnaparamita. T0152; Liu du ji 六度集; 六度集經 T152(81); [no title given in source]