Source: Iyanaga DDB

Iyanaga Nobumi. DDB s.v. 大黑天神法.

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This is an unusual case, because the reascription was already made by the Meiji, and so the Taisho actually carries the modern scholarly reascription instead of a tradition ascription. DDB s.v. (Iyanaga): "The Daikoku tenjin hō ; 1 fasc. [T.1287.21.355b-358a], ascribed to a monk named Jingai 神愷. Until the Meiji period, this ritual was usually considered as a Chinese work of the Tang period (the Bussho kaisetsu daijiten, 7.244c says still 'Jingai of the Tang' ), but it is assuredly an apocryphal work written by a Japanese monk, probably of the Shingon school, before 1080, or more precisely between 953 and 1049. There are at least three recensions; the oldest one was written before 1080, the second one before 1134, and the most recent one before 1173. The entire text, in three recensions, is composed of various citations and reminiscences from different older texts. The most original part, which is already in the oldest recension, reveals deep influence of the work of Yijing 義淨 on Mahākāla 大黑天 in his Record of The Buddhist Religion as Practiced in India 南海寄歸内法傳, where the deity (Daikokuten 大黑天) is described as a protecting deity of Buddhist temples..." See also Iyanaga Nobumi 彌永信美. Daikokuten hensō: Bukkyō shinwagaku 大黒天変相 -- 仏教神話学 I, Kyoto, Hōzōkan 法藏館, 2002; 346–354.

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 This is an unusual case, because the reascription was already made by the Meiji, and so the Taisho actually carries the modern scholarly reascription instead of a tradition ascription. DDB s.v. (Iyanaga): "The Daikoku tenjin ho ; 1 fasc. [T.1287.21.355b-358a], ascribed to a monk named Jingai 神愷. Until the Meiji period, this ritual was usually considered as a Chinese work of the Tang period (the Bussho kaisetsu daijiten, 7.244c says still 'Jingai of the Tang' ), but it is assuredly an apocryphal work written by a Japanese monk, probably of the Shingon school, before 1080, or more precisely between 953 and 1049. There are at least three recensions; the oldest one was written before 1080, the second one before 1134, and the most recent one before 1173. The entire text, in three recensions, is composed of various citations and reminiscences from different older texts. The most original part, which is already in the oldest recension, reveals deep influence of the work of Yijing 義淨 on Mahakala 大黑天 in his Record of The Buddhist Religion as Practiced in India 南海寄歸内法傳, where the deity (Daikokuten 大黑天) is described as a protecting deity of Buddhist temples..." See also Iyanaga Nobumi 彌永信美. Daikokuten henso: Bukkyo shinwagaku 大黒天変相 -- 仏教神話学 I, Kyoto, Hozokan 法藏館, 2002; 346–354. Anonymous (Japan) T1287; 大黑天神法