| Identifier | T0169 [T] |
| Title | 月明菩薩經 [T] |
| Date | [None] |
| Unspecified | *Lokakṣema, 支婁迦讖 [Sakaino 1935] |
| Translator 譯 | Zhi Qian 支謙 [T] |
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[Bie lu (DH mss)] "Liu Song" Zhongjing bie lu 劉宋眾經別錄, S.2872, P.3747. Dating complex and unclear. |
In the "Liu Song" Zhongjing bie lu 劉宋眾經別錄, as represented by a Dunhuang manuscript fragment, S.2872, are listed the following titles corresponding to extant texts by Zhi Qian (titles in the DH ms. Bie lu are identified by the numbering given to the manuscripts in Tan 1991): T169 = Tan#5, T493 = Tan#6, T533 = Tan#3, T557 = Tan#4, T561 = Tan#7, T632 = Tan#2, T1011 = Tan#1. In addition, at the end if this group of titles (following T561 = Tan#7), an interlinear note states that Zhi Qian translated the text(s): 支謙以吳孫亮建興中出. Similar wording is used by Sy in CSZJJ to cover all of a list of 36 works he ascribes to Zhi Qian, T2145 (LV) 7a23-24. It is an open question whether interlinear titles of this sort in the Bie lu apply to groups of titles, or only to the single title immediately preceding the note. Dating of this Bie lu is a complex matter; see other CBC@ entries directly on these DH manuscript witnesses, citations in later catalogues etc. Entry author: Michael Radich |
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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. |
Entry author: Michael Radich |
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[Gao 1983] Gao Mingdao 高明道 [Grohmann, Friedrich F.]. “Rulai zhiyin sanmei jing fanyi yanjiu 如來智印三昧經翻譯研究.” MA thesis, Chung-kuo Wen-hua Ta-hsueh 中國文化大學, 1983. — 54-55 n. 24 |
In the course of a discussion of the ascription of T632, Gao notes that Stein 2872, which preserves a fragment of the Zhongjing bie lu 眾經別錄, which he identifies with the Liu Song catalogue of the same name, lists six texts not ascribed to Zhi Qian in Dao'an's catalogue, but ascribed to him by Sengyou in CSZJJ. Gao argues that the "Bie lu" is therefore Sengyou's source for these ascriptions. The texts in question are: 慧印三昧經 (T632), 差摩竭經, 龍施女經 (T557), 月明善菩薩經 (cf. 月明童子經 in Sengyou's list, and 月明菩薩經 T169), 阿難四事經 (T493), and 七女經 (T556). [Note that Gao himself does not agree with the ascription of T632, and may not subscribed to the other ascriptions in this list; he is merely the proximate source reporting them --- MR.] Entry author: Michael Radich |
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[Zürcher 1959/2007] Zürcher, Erik. The Buddhist Conquest of China: The Spread and Adaptation of Buddhism in Early Medieval China. Third Edition. Leiden: Brill, 1959 (2007 reprint). — 50, 336 n. 137 |
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According to Zürcher, Sengyou attributed thirty-six texts to Zhi Qian 支謙, of which twenty-three have survived: T54, T68, T76, T87, T169, T185, T198, T225, T281, T362, T474, T493, T532, T533, T556, T557, T559, T581, T632, T708, T735, T790, T1011. However, Zürcher notes that T68 “is not mentioned by Dao’an.” This entry includes all twenty-three texts accepted by Zürcher as genuine Zhi Qian translations. Entry author: Sophie Florence |
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[Sakaino 1935] Sakaino Kōyō 境野黄洋. Shina Bukkyō seishi 支那佛教精史. Tokyo: Sakaino Kōyō Hakushi Ikō Kankōkai, 1935. — 124-128 |
Sakaino argues that the 月明童子經 [cf. 月明菩薩經 T169 ---MR] is likely to be the work of *Lokakṣema, not of Zhi Qian. The reasons he offers are mostly related to terminology. For example, the terms 尼摩羅天 and 魔天 do not appear in any of Zhi Qian’s works, but they actually are shortened forms of terms used elsewhere by *Lokakṣema. In addition, the name Amituo 阿彌陀 also appears in the text, which Zhi Qian never used, but which *Lokakṣema used first. Entry author: Atsushi Iseki |
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