Chen, Jinhua. “The Construction of Early Tendai Esoteric Buddhism: The Japanese Provenance of Saichō's Transmission Documents and Three Esoteric Buddhist Apocrypha Attributed to Śubhākarasiṁha.” Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 21, no. 1 (1998): 21-76.
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Sinclair summarises (DDB s.v. 三種悉地破地獄轉業障出三界祕密陀羅尼法): "Evidence presented by Chen suggests [these are] three apocrypha (T 905, 906, 907) fabricated in the inner circles of Japanese Tendai 台密, perhaps by Annen 安然, to bolster the esoteric credentials of Saichō 最澄." |