| Identifier | T2040 [T] |
| Title | 釋迦譜 [T] |
| Date | 479-502 [Palumbo 2013] |
| Author | Sengyou, 僧祐 [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. |
蕭齊釋僧祐譔 + 梁沙門釋僧祐撰 + 蕭齊釋僧祐撰 Entry author: Michael Radich |
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[Palumbo 2013] Palumbo, Antonello. An Early Chinese Commentary on the Ekottarika-āgama: The Fenbie gongde lun 分別功德論 and the History of the Translation of the Zengyi ahan jing 增一阿含經. Dharma Drum Buddhist College Research Series 7. Taipei: Dharma Drum Publishing Co., 2013. — 129 and n. 70 |
"A date before the end of the (Southern) Qi 齊 dynasty in A.D. 502 is suggested by repeated glosses in the text explaining Indic words in 'the language of Qi' (Qi yan 齊言)." Entry author: Michael Radich |
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[Tan 1991] Tan Shibao 譚世保. Han Tang Foshi tanzhen 漢唐佛史探真. Guangzhou: Zhongshan daxue chubanshe, 1991. — 146-147 |
By comparing the records in Sengyou’s own works and later catalogues (Fajing, LDSBJ and KYL), Tan concludes that each of Sengyou’s texts Shi jia pu 釋迦譜 T2040, Hong ming ji 弘明集 T2102 and CSZJJ existed in a shorter and a longer version. The main evidence from Sengyou himself is the preface and table of contents of his Faji 法集, preserved under the heading 釋僧祐法集總目錄序 in the present CSZJJ. Shi jia pu, Hong ming ji, and CSZJJ are three of the eight works by Sengyou that make up the Faji, and in the table of contents for Faji, Sengyou indicates the length of Shi jia pu as 5 fascicles, Hong ming ji as 10 fascicles, and CSZJJ as 10 fascicles. While it is true that the extant Shi jia pu is 5 fascicles long, the extant Hong ming ji and CSZJJ are 14 and 15 fascicles respectively. Looking beyond evidence within Sengyou’s own corpus, we find that the entries for both CSZJJ and Hong ming ji in KYL concur with the extant longer versions though Zhisheng also notes that Sengyou’s own catalogue (You lu 祐錄) gives a different length of 10 fascicles for both works. On the other hand, while the length of the extant Shi jia pu agrees with the length given by Sengyou in Faji, Zhisheng apparently based his entry in KYL on a longer version of 10 fascicles. Similar to his entries of CSZJJ and Hong ming ji, he again notes the existence of a shorter version, which in this case consists of 5 fascicles just like our extant Shi jia pu 別有五卷本與此廣略異. Based on these records, Tan deduces that Sengyou produced two versions for each of these three works. Furthermore, because Sengyou reproduces the tables of contents for all of the works collected in the Faji except CSZJJ right after the table of contents of the Faji itself, Tan reasons that Sengyou must have omitted the table of content of the shorter CSZJJ [hereafter CSZJJ-10f] because he must have already incorporated it in the longer CSZJJ [CSZJJ-15f] that now also encloses the tables of contents of the Faji. This then also follows that CSZJJ-15f must postdate CSZJJ-10f (146-147). Entry author: Sharon Chi |
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[Naitō 1971] Naitō Ryūo 内藤竜雄 . "Sōyū no chosaku katsudō 僧祐の著作活動." IBK 20, no. 1 (1971): 284-287. |
As part of a larger article considering Sengyou's oeuvre and its characteristics in general, Naitō argues that Sengyou was in the habit of continually revising his own works until very late in his life. Sengyou also gave to his own works a very explicit order [T2145 (LV) 87b9-16 --- MR]. There is no reason to suspect that this order is governed by the length or genre of the work, and Naitō proposes that it may be chronological, in order of composition. This suspicion is further confirmed by the fact that the preface to the last work on the list, the 法集雜記傳銘, speaks of already having composed seven (other) works. [CSZJJ is third on the list, after the Shijia pu 釋迦譜 and the Shijie ji 世界記 --- MR.] On this basis, Naitō proposes: Shijia pu 釋迦譜 and the Shijie ji 世界記 should date before (the first version of) CSZJJ, i.e. to the late S. Qi. The ten fascicle version of CSZJJ T2145 was completed in Tianjian 天監 3 (504). The latest material included in the revised (extant) version is from Tianjian 14 (515). [Presumably Naitō here refers to 以歲次協洽月旅黃鍾天監之十四年十月二十三日, in the 慧印三昧及濟方等學二經序讚 of Wang Sengru 王僧孺 (465-522), T2145 (LV) 50c3-4 --- MR.] Some propose that there is material included from Tianjian 16, but Naitō is not persuaded. 薩婆多部相承傳: around Tianjian 2-3 (503-504), based upon the dates of the events to which it relates. 法苑集: begun around Tianjian 3-4 (504-505), and expanded until around Tianjian 8-9 (509-510). 法苑集: Tianjian 3-6 (504-507). 十誦義記: first composed around forty years after Sengyou's ordination, so about 499; but this date is referred to as "in the past" within the work itself, so probably revised around Tianjian 8 (509). 法集雜記傳銘: around Tianjian 8-9 (509-510). Entry author: Michael Radich |
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