Source: Keyworth 1992

Keyworth, George A. “On the Authorship of the *Śūraṃgama-sūtra Ascribed to *Pāramiti.” Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies 5, no. 2 (2022): 92–130. https://buddhism.lib.ntu.edu.tw/en/search/search_detail.jsp?seq=679988

https://dx.doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.05.02.03 https://glorisunglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/hualin5.2_keyworth.pdf

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Texts: T0945; 大佛頂如來密因修證了義諸菩薩萬行首楞嚴經; 首楞嚴經, *Śūraṃgama-sūtra People: Huaidi 懷迪/Huidi 慧迪 (unspecified); Anonymous (China), 失譯, 闕譯, 未詳撰者, 未詳作者, 不載譯人 (unspecified) Dates: after 713	"Both of our earliest accounts of the composition of the Shoulengyan jing [T945], [KYL] and Xu gujin yijing tuji [T2152] agree that Huaidi 懷迪 and an anonymous ‘Indian monk’, rather than Pāramiti, compiled the Shoulengyan jing. Yet almost all later sources in China and modern secondary studies of this important scripture ascribe the Śūraṃgama-sūtra to Pāramiti in error. "[…] the traditionally accepted dating and attribution for the ‘translation’—or composition—of this scripture need to be emended because of information found in MS Z no. 1181-001, a medieval Japanese copy of T2152. "[…] several versions [T945] from Dunhuang and in Japanese manuscript sets of the Buddhist canon assign no translator whatsoever. "[…] If we contend that the Kongōji MS edition of the [T2152] is a copy of a Nara-period manuscript, then it appears that the earliest attribution of [T945]—in Zhisheng’s records of 730—was to an almost otherwise unknown Chinese monk from south China (Huaidi) and an unknown Indian śramaṇera who brought a Sanskrit text to China from India. Since Huaidi was apparently working on the translation project of the Ratnakūṭa led by Bodhiruci [II] sometime during the period of 705 and 713, it stands to reason that the translation and/or fabrication of the Śūraṃgama-sūtra must have taken place after 713." Edit		"Both of our earliest accounts of the composition of the Shoulengyan jing [T945], [KYL] and Xu gujin yijing tuji [T2152] agree that Huaidi 懷迪 and an anonymous ‘Indian monk’, rather than Paramiti, compiled the Shoulengyan jing. Yet almost all later sources in China and modern secondary studies of this important scripture ascribe the Suramgama-sutra to Paramiti in error. "[...] the traditionally accepted dating and attribution for the ‘translation’—or composition—of this scripture need to be emended because of information found in MS Z no. 1181-001, a medieval Japanese copy of T2152. "[...] several versions [T945] from Dunhuang and in Japanese manuscript sets of the Buddhist canon assign no translator whatsoever. "[...] If we contend that the Kongoji MS edition of the [T2152] is a copy of a Nara-period manuscript, then it appears that the earliest attribution of [T945]—in Zhisheng’s records of 730—was to an almost otherwise unknown Chinese monk from south China (Huaidi) and an unknown Indian sramanera who brought a Sanskrit text to China from India. Since Huaidi was apparently working on the translation project of the Ratnakuta led by Bodhiruci [II] sometime during the period of 705 and 713, it stands to reason that the translation and/or fabrication of the Suramgama-sutra must have taken place after 713." Anonymous (China), 失譯, 闕譯, 未詳撰者, 未詳作者, 不載譯人 Huaidi 懷迪/Huidi 慧迪 T0945; 大佛頂如來密因修證了義諸菩薩萬行首楞嚴經; 首楞嚴經, *Suramgama-sutra

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Texts: T0945; 大佛頂如來密因修證了義諸菩薩萬行首楞嚴經; 首楞嚴經, *Śūraṃgama-sūtra
People: Huaidi 懷迪/Huidi 慧迪 (unspecified); Anonymous (China), 失譯, 闕譯, 未詳撰者, 未詳作者, 不載譯人 (unspecified)
Dates: after 713

"Both of our earliest accounts of the composition of the Shoulengyan jing [T945], [KYL] and Xu gujin yijing tuji [T2152] agree that Huaidi 懷迪 and an anonymous ‘Indian monk’, rather than *Pāramiti, compiled the Shoulengyan jing. Yet almost all later sources in China and modern secondary studies of this important scripture ascribe the *Śūraṃgama-sūtra to *Pāramiti in error.

"[…] the traditionally accepted dating and attribution for the ‘translation’—or composition—of this scripture need to be emended because of information found in MS Z no. 1181-001, a medieval Japanese copy of T2152.

"[…] several versions [T945] from Dunhuang and in Japanese manuscript sets of the Buddhist canon assign no translator whatsoever.

"[…] If we contend that the Kongōji MS edition of the [T2152] is a copy of a Nara-period manuscript, then it appears that the earliest attribution of [T945]—in Zhisheng’s records of 730—was to an almost otherwise unknown Chinese monk from south China (Huaidi) and an unknown Indian śramaṇera who brought a Sanskrit text to China from India. Since Huaidi was apparently working on the translation project of the Ratnakūṭa led by Bodhiruci [II] sometime during the period of 705 and 713, it stands to reason that the translation and/or fabrication of the *Śūraṃgama-sūtra must have taken place after 713."

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