Text: T0421; 奮迅王問經

Summary

Identifier	T0421 [T]
Title	奮迅王問經 [T]
Date	[None]
Translator 譯	*(Gautama) Prajñāruci, 般若流支, 瞿曇般若流支, 瞿曇流支, 瞿曇般若留支 [T]

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Preferred?	Source	Pertains to	Argument	Details
No	[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.	T0421; 奮迅王問經	Entry author: Michael Radich Edit	Title: 奮迅王問經 People: *(Gautama) Prajñāruci, 般若流支, 瞿曇般若流支, 瞿曇流支, 瞿曇般若留支 (translator 譯) Identifier: T0421
No	[Sakaino 1935] Sakaino Kōyō 境野黄洋. Shina Bukkyō seishi 支那佛教精史. Tokyo: Sakaino Kōyō Hakushi Ikō Kankōkai, 1935. — 670	T0272; 大薩遮尼乾子所說經 T0421; 奮迅王問經 T1357; 佛說師子奮迅菩薩所問經	Citing the Baochang catalogue 寶唱錄, KYL records that the title Pusa jingjie fenxun famen jing 菩薩境界奮迅法門經 [this is the form of the title in KYL (see below); Sakaino writes 菩薩境界奮迅法問經] attributed to Buddhaśānta is an alternate title for the Sazhe Niganzi jing 薩遮尼乾子經 [Sakaino writes 薩遮尼犍子經]. Sakaino claims that this report is another example of the confusions concerning Buddhaśānta and Bodhiruci. [NOTE: It is difficult to determine which text these assertions and records might refer to, and Sakaino’s possible confusion about the title above might reflect this problem. In T alone, we see the following extant texts with possibly related titles: 師子奮迅菩薩所問經 T1357 (anon.); 奮迅王問經 T421 (ascribed to *Gautama Prajñāruci); 大薩遮尼乾子所說經 T272 (ascribed to Bodhiruci), which contains such apparently related (and unique) phrase as (菩薩行方便)境界奮迅法門. Pending resolution of these problems, this note is associated with all three of these T titles. Cf. KYL T2154 [LV] 540c21-22, where Zhisheng gives a note to a title 大薩遮尼乾子所說經十卷, ascribed to Bodhiruci, reading: 或加受記無所說字或七卷或八卷一名菩薩境界奮迅法門經正光元年於洛陽為司州牧汝南王於第出第二譯與神通變化經同本 --- MR.] Entry author: Atsushi Iseki Edit
No	[Sakaino 1935] Sakaino Kōyō 境野黄洋. Shina Bukkyō seishi 支那佛教精史. Tokyo: Sakaino Kōyō Hakushi Ikō Kankōkai, 1935. — 668	T0421; 奮迅王問經 T0645; 不必定入定入印經 T0833; 第一義法勝經 T1526; 寶髻經四法憂波提舍 T1533; 轉法輪經憂波提舍 T1534; 三具足經憂波提舍 T1565; 順中論 T1608; 業成就論 T1631; 迴諍論	Sakaino states that KYL corrected mistakes regarding the translation works of the "three Rucis" 流支 as much as possible, using the prefaces of the scriptures as the main source. For example, Zhisheng reascribed the Vikurvaṇarājaparipṛcchā 奮迅王問 T421, the Niyatāniyata[gati]mudrāvatāra-sūtra 不必定入印 T645, the Yiqie fa gaowang 一切法髙王 (apparently not extant), the Paramārthadharmavijaya-sūtra 第一義法勝 T833, and the Shun zhong lun 順中論 T1565 (all previously ascribed to Bodhiruci) to Gautama Prajnāruci 瞿曇般若流支 [Zhisheng should therefore be the ultimate source of these ascriptions, which are still borne by all these texts in T --- MR]. Sakaino states that these re-ascriptions were correct. Zhisheng also reascribed the following titles to Vimokṣaprajñārṣi 毘目智仙: the Baoji pusa lun 寶髻菩薩論 [cf. 寶髻經四法憂波提舍 T1526], the San juzu jing lun 三具足經論 [三具足經憂波提舍 T1534], the Zhuan falun jing lun 轉法輪經論 [轉法輪經憂波提舍 T1533] (all ascribed to Bodhiruci in LDSBJ), and the Karmasiddhiprakaraṇa 業成就論 T1608 and the Vigrahavyāvartaṇī 廻[迴]諍論 T1631 (both ascribed to Prajnāruci 般若流支 in LDSBJ). [Once again, then, Zhisheng is the source of the ascriptions that all these texts bear in T.] Sakaino states that Vimokṣaprajñārṣi first appears in KYL, and that his proximity to *Prajnāruci might have been a cause for the confusion in records about the two figures, quoting the following comment from Zhisheng: 與瞿曇流支同遊魏境。而瞿曇流支尊事為師 (T2154 [LV] 543b15-16). Entry author: Atsushi Iseki Edit

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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.

T0421; 奮迅王問經

Entry author: Michael Radich

Edit

Title: 奮迅王問經
People: *(Gautama) Prajñāruci, 般若流支, 瞿曇般若流支, 瞿曇流支, 瞿曇般若留支 (translator 譯)
Identifier: T0421

[Sakaino 1935] Sakaino Kōyō 境野黄洋. Shina Bukkyō seishi 支那佛教精史. Tokyo: Sakaino Kōyō Hakushi Ikō Kankōkai, 1935. — 670

Citing the Baochang catalogue 寶唱錄, KYL records that the title Pusa jingjie fenxun famen jing 菩薩境界奮迅法門經 [this is the form of the title in KYL (see below); Sakaino writes 菩薩境界奮迅法問經] attributed to *Buddhaśānta is an alternate title for the Sazhe Niganzi jing 薩遮尼乾子經 [Sakaino writes 薩遮尼犍子經]. Sakaino claims that this report is another example of the confusions concerning *Buddhaśānta and Bodhiruci.

[NOTE: It is difficult to determine which text these assertions and records might refer to, and Sakaino’s possible confusion about the title above might reflect this problem. In T alone, we see the following extant texts with possibly related titles:

師子奮迅菩薩所問經 T1357 (anon.);
奮迅王問經 T421 (ascribed to *Gautama Prajñāruci);
大薩遮尼乾子所說經 T272 (ascribed to Bodhiruci), which contains such apparently related (and unique) phrase as (菩薩行方便)境界奮迅法門.

Pending resolution of these problems, this note is associated with all three of these T titles.

Cf. KYL T2154 [LV] 540c21-22, where Zhisheng gives a note to a title 大薩遮尼乾子所說經十卷, ascribed to Bodhiruci, reading: 或加受記無所說字或七卷或八卷一名菩薩境界奮迅法門經正光元年於洛陽為司州牧汝南王於第出第二譯與神通變化經同本 --- MR.]

Entry author: Atsushi Iseki

Edit

[Sakaino 1935] Sakaino Kōyō 境野黄洋. Shina Bukkyō seishi 支那佛教精史. Tokyo: Sakaino Kōyō Hakushi Ikō Kankōkai, 1935. — 668

Sakaino states that KYL corrected mistakes regarding the translation works of the "three Rucis" 流支 as much as possible, using the prefaces of the scriptures as the main source. For example, Zhisheng reascribed the Vikurvaṇarājaparipṛcchā 奮迅王問 T421, the Niyatāniyata[gati]mudrāvatāra-sūtra 不必定入印 T645, the Yiqie fa gaowang 一切法髙王 (apparently not extant), the Paramārthadharmavijaya-sūtra 第一義法勝 T833, and the Shun zhong lun 順中論 T1565 (all previously ascribed to Bodhiruci) to *Gautama Prajnāruci 瞿曇般若流支 [Zhisheng should therefore be the ultimate source of these ascriptions, which are still borne by all these texts in T --- MR]. Sakaino states that these re-ascriptions were correct. Zhisheng also reascribed the following titles to *Vimokṣaprajñārṣi 毘目智仙: the Baoji pusa lun 寶髻菩薩論 [cf. 寶髻經四法憂波提舍 T1526], the San juzu jing lun 三具足經論 [三具足經憂波提舍 T1534], the Zhuan falun jing lun 轉法輪經論 [轉法輪經憂波提舍 T1533] (all ascribed to Bodhiruci in LDSBJ), and the Karmasiddhiprakaraṇa 業成就論 T1608 and the Vigrahavyāvartaṇī 廻[迴]諍論 T1631 (both ascribed to *Prajnāruci 般若流支 in LDSBJ). [Once again, then, Zhisheng is the source of the ascriptions that all these texts bear in T.] Sakaino states that *Vimokṣaprajñārṣi first appears in KYL, and that his proximity to *Prajnāruci might have been a cause for the confusion in records about the two figures, quoting the following comment from Zhisheng: 與瞿曇流支同遊魏境。而瞿曇流支尊事為師 (T2154 [LV] 543b15-16).

Entry author: Atsushi Iseki

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