| Identifier | T2873 [T] |
| Title | 首羅比丘經 [T] |
| Date | [None] |
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There are resources for the study of this text in the SAT Daizōkyō Text Dabatase (Saṃgaṇikīkṛtaṃ Taiśotripiṭakaṃ).
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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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[Buswell 1990b] Buswell, Robert. "Introduction: Prolegomenon to the Study of Buddhist Apocryphal Scriptures." In Buswell 1990, 1-30. — 10 |
Buswell briefly notes that the Shouluo biqiu jing 首羅比丘經 T2873 is apocryphal, because it is a work which includes in its title “the name of a presumed living individual.” He cites Makita. Entry author: Sophie Florence |
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[Zürcher 1981] Zürcher, Erik. “Eschatology and Messianism in Early Chinese Buddhism.” In Leyden Studies in Sinology: Papers Presented at the conference Held in Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Sinological Institute of Leyden University, December 8-12, 1980, edited by Wilt L. Idema, 34-56. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1981. — 51-52 |
Zürcher discusses the “extremely curious apocryphal text” the Shouluo biqui jing 首羅比丘經 (cf. T2873). He suggests that the text can be dated between 518, the year when Sengyou completed the Chu sanzang jiji (which does not discuss the Shouluo biqui jing), and 589, the year when it was first mentioned in Fajing's Zhongjing mulu 眾經目錄 T2146. Zürcher adds that the text is prophetic, contains “cryptic sayings,” often defies understanding, and belongs to the “earliest known phase of sectarian Buddhism.” Zürcher claims that this text marks Yueguang Tongzhi’s “transformation from an obscure Bodhisattva to a full-fledged messiah.” He refers to a more detailed analysis of this text in his own article “Prince Moonlight: Messianism and Eschatology in Early Medieval Buddhism.” T'oung-pao 68 (1982): 1–59. Zürcher studies the texts on the basis of five Dunhuang manuscripts: Peking ms. 292:8247, Peking 292:8275, S 2697, S6881, S1811. Entry author: Michael Radich |
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