| Identifier | T1306 [T] |
| Title | 北斗七星護摩祕要儀軌 [T] |
| Date | 1281-1313 [Franke 1990] |
| Author | Guanding, 灌頂 [T] |
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[T] T = CBETA [Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association]. Taishō shinshū daizōkyō 大正新脩大藏經. Edited by Takakusu Junjirō 高楠順次郎 and Watanabe Kaigyoku 渡邊海旭. Tokyo: Taishō shinshū daizōkyō kankōkai/Daizō shuppan, 1924-1932. CBReader v 5.0, 2014. |
大興善寺翻經院灌頂阿闍梨述. Entry author: Michael Radich |
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[Franke 1990] Franke, Herbert. "The Taoist Elements in the Buddhist Great Bear Sūtra." Asia Major, series III, 1 (1990): 75-111. |
"...a non-canonical Buddhist text that invokes the gods of the seven starts of Ursa Major." Under the Yuan, translated into Mongolian, Tibetan and Uighur. "I try to demonstrate that at least some sections of the Chinese text are derived from Taoist literature." "It is certainly no coincidence that the Buddhist texts where our star names appear (Taisho nos. 1305, 1306, 1306, 1310 and 1311) have been reprinted from Japanese manuscripts and editions. None of these texts is, according to the colophons, attested earlier than the twelfth-century manuscripts found in Japanese monasteries." "[T1306] quotes a Book of Destiny (Lu-ming shu 錄命書), which shows some relationship with the description in chüan 6 of the Pao-p'u tzu....The borrowing from Taoism is even more obvious in [T1311]." "I...venture to suggest that a Buddhist Pei-tou ching, a prototype of Taisho no. 1307, was composed after 1281 but prior to 1313. Its compiler adopted elements of the Great Bear cult as found in Taoist texts and gave it the Buddhist form of a pseudo-sūtra purportedly preached by the Buddha himself..." Entry author: Michael Radich |
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[Panglung 1991] Panglung, Jampa L. "Die tibetische Version des Siebengestirn-sūtras." In Tibetan History and Language: Studies Dedicated to Uray Géza on his Seventieth Birthday, herausgegeben von Ernst Steinkellner, 399-416. Wien: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien, Universität Wien, 1991. |
Panglung states that the canonicity of the Tibetan version of the "Seven Stars Sūtra" ("Big Dipper Sūtra", "Ursa Major Sūtra"), the sMe bdun zhes bya bai' skar ma'i mdo, is controversial. The text is incorporated into the Peking version of the canon only, and is also found in manuscripts in Berlin, and in dhāraṇī collections (gZungs bsdus). In the Peking canon it is inserted between two other sūtras which are regarded as apocrypha (sTag ma'i rtogs pa brjod pa, Mig bcu bnyis pa'i mdo). Panglung presents an edition and translation of the Tibetan text. Entry author: Michael Radich |
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[Strickmann 2002] Strickmann, Michel. Chinese Magical Medicine. Edited by Bernard Faure. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. — 229 |
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Strickmann writes: "Properly speaking, many of [Amoghavajra's 167 'translations'] were not translations at all. Instead, they might better be called 'adaptations’; essentially, he refurbished them in line with his own terminology and ritual practice. This becomes even more striking in those cases where texts 'translated' by Amoghavajra are known to have been written in China centuries earlier, and directly in Chinese. A substantial part of Amoghavajra’s output thus comprises revisions of books already known in China, rather than new materials. Among the remaining, a good many cannot be found either in corresponding Sanskrit manuscripts or in Tibetan translation – at least not in the form in which Amoghavajra presents them. Much of what his texts tell us unquestionably goes back to Indian sources; he was clearly working fully within the Tantric Buddhist tradition, but often more as an author or compiler than as a translator in our sense of the term." Entry author: Michael Radich |
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