Text: T0856; 大毘盧遮那成佛神變加持經略示七支念誦隨行法

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Identifier T0856 [T]
Title 大毘盧遮那成佛神變加持經略示七支念誦隨行法 [T]
Date [None]
Translator 譯 Amoghavajra, 不空, 不空金剛, 阿目佉, 阿謨伽 [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.

Entry author: Michael Radich

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[Goble 2012]  Goble, Geoffrey. “Chinese Esoteric Buddhism: Amoghavajra and the Ruling Elite.” PhD dissertation, Indiana University, 2012. — 82

Goble argues that the tradition of associating Amoghavajra with the "Diamond Pinnacle" 金剛頂一切如來真實攝大乘現證大教王經 T865 and the "Great Vairocana" Sutras 大毘盧遮那成佛神變加持經略示七支念誦隨行法 T856 (and more generally all texts produced by Śubhākarasiṃha) is based more on “historical fact rather than pious fictions.” He adds that there are explicit references to texts translated by Śubhākarasiṃha in those of Amoghavajra.

Entry author: Sophie Florence

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[Strickmann 2002]  Strickmann, Michel. Chinese Magical Medicine. Edited by Bernard Faure. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. — 229

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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