Source: Zacchetti 2016

Zacchetti, Stefano. “Notions and Visions of the Canon in Early Chinese Buddhism.” In Spreading Buddha’s Word in East Asia: The Formation and Transformation of the Chinese Buddhist Canon, edited by Jiang Wu and Lucille Chia, 81-108. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.

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In a concise tour de force rich enough to comprise a full study in its own right, Zacchetti retrieves some of the remarks made by Dao'an in his catalogue about the structure of the canon from citations in CSZJJ. More than sixty such glosses are marked 安公云. Zacchetti groups these glosses into six types: scriptural classification; attribution of translations; identification of retranslations; identification of abridgements 抄; recording alternative titles; and other. Focusing in particular on evidence for Dao'an's incorporation of Mahayana works into this structure, Zacchetti argues for a new vision of the significance of Dao'an's project: "If my interpretation...is correct, then we can say that it had lasting effects and was to play a crucial historical function. In a sense, the categories adopted by Daoan can be seen as the main limbs of a certain kind of canon in a nutshell, which prefigured the definitive configuration of the Chinese Buddhist canon, tripiṭaka-structured...and yet capable of integrating both Mahayana and non-Mahayana scriptures into a single textual body."

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 In a concise tour de force rich enough to comprise a full study in its own right, Zacchetti retrieves some of the remarks made by Dao'an in his catalogue about the structure of the canon from citations in CSZJJ. More than sixty such glosses are marked 安公云. Zacchetti groups these glosses into six types: scriptural classification; attribution of translations; identification of retranslations; identification of abridgements 抄; recording alternative titles; and other. Focusing in particular on evidence for Dao'an's incorporation of Mahayana works into this structure, Zacchetti argues for a new vision of the significance of Dao'an's project: "If my interpretation...is correct, then we can say that it had lasting effects and was to play a crucial historical function. In a sense, the categories adopted by Daoan can be seen as the main limbs of a certain kind of canon in a nutshell, which prefigured the definitive configuration of the Chinese Buddhist canon, tripitaka-structured...and yet capable of integrating both Mahayana and non-Mahayana scriptures into a single textual body." Dao'an 道安 Zongli zhongjing mulu 綜理衆經目錄