Source: Zacchetti 2016a

Zacchetti, Stefano. “The Catalog of All Canonical Scriptures.” In Sichuan Province, Volume 3: Wofoyuan Section C, edited by Claudia Wenzel and Sun Hua, 65-76 (Chinese), 77-96 (English). Buddhist Stone Sutras in China, edited by Lothar Ledderose on behalf of Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag/Hanzhou: China Academy of Art Press, 2016.

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Texts: T0441; 大乘蓮華寶達普薩問答報應經; 佛說佛名經; 大乘蓮華馬頭羅剎經 People: Anonymous (China), 失譯, 闕譯, 未詳撰者, 未詳作者, 不載譯人 (author)	Zacchetti notes, principally following work by Kuo Liying, that prior scholarship has already concluded that T441 is probably a Chinese composition. The first 16 juan of the text have embedded within them [as the Dharma portion of a repeated, highly elaborate "three refuges" liturgical format] lists of sūtra titles. In the course of an examination of a version of Jingtai's ZJML T2148 carved in Cave 46 at Wofoyuan 臥佛院, a site in modern Sichuan, Zacchetti shows that "if we extract the various lists of scripture titles from the first 16 scrolls...[of T441] and assemble them in sequence, we contain a catalog almost identical to that carved in cave 46 at Wofoyuan. Indeed, there is little doubt that the compilers of [T441] based these portions of the text on a catalogue [sic spelling variation] very close, from the point of view of general structure, content, and sequence of listed scriptures, to....T2147 and T2148 [viz. Fajing and Jingtai's catalogues respectively]." Zacchetti even finds a "smoking gun", referring to an item towards the end of the embedded lists in juan 16, 南無賢聖集傳, T441 (XIV) 248a8. "Owing to what appears to be a curious error, [the compilers of T441] wrongly took the name of this last section of the ruzang lu in both [T2147 and T2148] as the title of a scripture, and so listed it preceded by the usual formula 'homage to'..." Edit	93-95	Zacchetti notes, principally following work by Kuo Liying, that prior scholarship has already concluded that T441 is probably a Chinese composition. The first 16 juan of the text have embedded within them [as the Dharma portion of a repeated, highly elaborate "three refuges" liturgical format] lists of sutra titles. In the course of an examination of a version of Jingtai's ZJML T2148 carved in Cave 46 at Wofoyuan 臥佛院, a site in modern Sichuan, Zacchetti shows that "if we extract the various lists of scripture titles from the first 16 scrolls...[of T441] and assemble them in sequence, we contain a catalog almost identical to that carved in cave 46 at Wofoyuan. Indeed, there is little doubt that the compilers of [T441] based these portions of the text on a catalogue [sic spelling variation] very close, from the point of view of general structure, content, and sequence of listed scriptures, to....T2147 and T2148 [viz. Fajing and Jingtai's catalogues respectively]." Zacchetti even finds a "smoking gun", referring to an item towards the end of the embedded lists in juan 16, 南無賢聖集傳, T441 (XIV) 248a8. "Owing to what appears to be a curious error, [the compilers of T441] wrongly took the name of this last section of the ruzang lu in both [T2147 and T2148] as the title of a scripture, and so listed it preceded by the usual formula 'homage to'..." Anonymous (China), 失譯, 闕譯, 未詳撰者, 未詳作者, 不載譯人 T0441; 大乘蓮華寶達普薩問答報應經; 佛說佛名經; 大乘蓮華馬頭羅剎經

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Zacchetti notes, principally following work by Kuo Liying, that prior scholarship has already concluded that T441 is probably a Chinese composition. The first 16 juan of the text have embedded within them [as the Dharma portion of a repeated, highly elaborate "three refuges" liturgical format] lists of sūtra titles. In the course of an examination of a version of Jingtai's ZJML T2148 carved in Cave 46 at Wofoyuan 臥佛院, a site in modern Sichuan, Zacchetti shows that "if we extract the various lists of scripture titles from the first 16 scrolls...[of T441] and assemble them in sequence, we contain a catalog almost identical to that carved in cave 46 at Wofoyuan. Indeed, there is little doubt that the compilers of [T441] based these portions of the text on a catalogue [sic spelling variation] very close, from the point of view of general structure, content, and sequence of listed scriptures, to....T2147 and T2148 [viz. Fajing and Jingtai's catalogues respectively]." Zacchetti even finds a "smoking gun", referring to an item towards the end of the embedded lists in juan 16, 南無賢聖集傳, T441 (XIV) 248a8. "Owing to what appears to be a curious error, [the compilers of T441] wrongly took the name of this last section of the ruzang lu in both [T2147 and T2148] as the title of a scripture, and so listed it preceded by the usual formula 'homage to'..."

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