Source: Girard 2012

Girard, Frédéric. “The Treatise of the Golden Lion attributed to Fazang in China and Japan.” In Avataṃsaka Buddhism in East Asia: Origins and Adaptation of a Visual Culture, edited by Robert Gimello, Frédéric Girard, and Imre Hamar, 307–338. Asiatische Forschungen 155. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2012.

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The Jin shizi zhang 金師子章 ("Treatise of the Golden Lion") is traditionally attributed to Fazang 法藏 (643–712). The text exists in three recensions, embedded in commentaries: namely, the commentary by Jingyuan 淨源 in 金師子章雲間類解 T1880; the commentary by Chengqian 承遷, 華嚴經金師子章註 T1881; and commentary by Keiga 景雅 金師子章勘文 T2346. Girard questions this ascription. He argues that the Treatise was composed as a Huayan response to the dominant place the mind occupied as a philosophical and religious principle in the Chan schools during the 8th century, and writes accordingly, "Can it not be said ... that the hypothesis attributing this treatise to Fazang has to be proved, more than showing scepticism or denying it?"

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 The Jin shizi zhang 金師子章 ("Treatise of the Golden Lion") is traditionally attributed to Fazang 法藏 (643–712). The text exists in three recensions, embedded in commentaries: namely, the commentary by Jingyuan 淨源 in 金師子章雲間類解 T1880; the commentary by Chengqian 承遷, 華嚴經金師子章註 T1881; and commentary by Keiga 景雅 金師子章勘文 T2346. Girard questions this ascription. He argues that the Treatise was composed as a Huayan response to the dominant place the mind occupied as a philosophical and religious principle in the Chan schools during the 8th century, and writes accordingly, "Can it not be said ... that the hypothesis attributing this treatise to Fazang has to be proved, more than showing scepticism or denying it?" Anonymous (China), 失譯, 闕譯, 未詳撰者, 未詳作者, 不載譯人 Jin shizi zhang 金師子章