Source: Funayama 2001

Funayama Tōru. “Two Notes on Dharmapāla and Dharmakīrti.” Zinbun 35 (2001): 1-11.

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Funayama observes that the term 證自證分appears for the first time in the Fo di jing lun 佛地經論 (T1530 [XXVI] 303b14). This important epistemological term, which denotes the self-awareness of the mind’s self-awareness, the crucial fourth part of perception in Xuanzang’s four-part model 四分說, is not otherwise found in the body of Indic works rendered into Chinese by Xuanzang. It is, however, found in the Cheng weishi lun (T1585 [XXXI] 10b18) and represents a paradigmatic tenet of Sinitic Yogācāra Buddhist doctrinal teachings on the nature of perception. In light of this internal evidence, Funayama questions the degree to which the Fo di jing lun should be considered a “translation” from an Indic original, as opposed to an agenda-driven composition put together by Xuanzang and his disciples to further key Sinitic Yogācāra Buddhist tenets.

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 Funayama observes that the term 證自證分appears for the first time in the Fo di jing lun 佛地經論 (T1530 [XXVI] 303b14). This important epistemological term, which denotes the self-awareness of the mind’s self-awareness, the crucial fourth part of perception in Xuanzang’s four-part model 四分說, is not otherwise found in the body of Indic works rendered into Chinese by Xuanzang. It is, however, found in the Cheng weishi lun (T1585 [XXXI] 10b18) and represents a paradigmatic tenet of Sinitic Yogacara Buddhist doctrinal teachings on the nature of perception. In light of this internal evidence, Funayama questions the degree to which the Fo di jing lun should be considered a “translation” from an Indic original, as opposed to an agenda-driven composition put together by Xuanzang and his disciples to further key Sinitic Yogacara Buddhist tenets. T1530; 佛地經論