Source: Radich 2019a

He Shuqun 何書群 [Michael Radich]. "Zhu Fahu shifou xiuding guo T474? 竺法護是否修訂過T474?" Foguang xuebao 佛光學報, New Series, 5, no. 2 (2019): 15-38.

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Radich argues that T474, ascribed in the present canon to Zhi Qian, was heavily revised or modified in the context immediately around Dharmarakṣa. Radich bases his argument upon over 180 items of phraseology which are found in T474, but otherwise never appear before the corpus of Dharmarakṣa; the same items are regular and quite widely distributed in Dharmarakṣa's works. Radich also reviews external evidence that Dharmarakṣa produced one or more versions of the Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa, which might provide corroboration for a connection between Dharmarakṣa and T474.

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 Radich argues that T474, ascribed in the present canon to Zhi Qian, was heavily revised or modified in the context immediately around Dharmaraksa. Radich bases his argument upon over 180 items of phraseology which are found in T474, but otherwise never appear before the corpus of Dharmaraksa; the same items are regular and quite widely distributed in Dharmaraksa's works. Radich also reviews external evidence that Dharmaraksa produced one or more versions of the Vimalakirti-nirdesa, which might provide corroboration for a connection between Dharmaraksa and T474. Dharmaraksa 竺法護, 曇摩羅察 T0474; 佛說維摩詰經