Text: T0754; Weicengyou jing 未曾有經; 佛說未曾有因緣經

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Identifier T0754 [T]
Title 佛說未曾有因緣經 [T]
Date [None]
Translator 譯 Tanjing, 曇景 [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.

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  • Title: 佛說未曾有因緣經
  • People: Tanjing, 曇景 (translator 譯)
  • Identifier: T0754

No

[CSZJJ]  Sengyou 僧祐. Chu sanzang ji ji (CSZJJ) 出三藏記集 T2145. — T2145 (LV) 21c26

In Sengyou's Chu sanzang ji ji, T754 is regarded as an anonymous translation, that is to say, it is listed in the "Newly Compiled Continuation of the Assorted List of Anonymous Translations" 新集續撰失譯雜經錄 (juan 4):

未曾有因[v.l. + 緣 SYM]經二卷(或云未曾有經).

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[Fei 597]  Fei Changfang 費長房. Lidai sanbao ji (LDSBJ) 歷代三寶紀 T2034. — T2034 (XLIX) 74a27, 96a25

In LDSBJ, a title corresponding to T754 is treated as an anonymous text of the E. Jin, citing CSZJJ; but the same title is elsewhere also ascribed to Shi Tanjing 釋曇景, with no source.

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[Fei 597]  Fei Changfang 費長房. Lidai sanbao ji (LDSBJ) 歷代三寶紀 T2034. — T2034 (XLIX) 55a28, 74a27, 110b11, 117c1

The dating of T688 to the E. Han found in the present canon (the Taishō) probably dates to LDSBJ, where it is entered among a list of anonymous texts at the end of Fascicle 4, which treats works of the Han dynasty. The same title is also given in LDSBJ as an alternate title for the 未曾有因緣經, which is included in a list of 53 anonymous texts of the E. Jin. The title 未曾有經 is also treated as anonymous in Fascicle 14. The title 未曾有因緣經 is incongruously treated as a text that DOES have an ascription, in Fascicle 13; but this probably refers to the ascription to Tanjing, citing the Shixing lu, 96a25. The title 未曾有因緣經 is still borne by T754, which carries an ascription to Tanjing in the Taishō.

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[Fajing 594]  Fajing 法經. Zhongjing mulu 眾經目錄 T2146. — T2146 (LV) 115c6, also 123a5; T2146 (LV) 127b1.

Ascribed to Tanjing by an interlinear note in Fajing: 未曾有因緣經二卷(沙門曇景譯) T2146 (LV) 115c6.

The same attribution appears again in a list at the end of fascicle 1, 123a5; however, according to the Taishō apparatus (122 n. 1), this list is taken from M, and collated against Y, which suggests it is missing from S and K (and therefore a late addition?).

However, the same title (with a different number of juan) also incongruously appears in a list of 23 texts, T2146 (LV) 127a11-b8, in a part of the catalogue handling "fake and spurious sutras" 眾經偽妄 (fasicle 2). Fajing appends to this list a note stating "[these] 23 texts were all concocted by Xiao Ziliang, Prince of Jingling under the Southern Qi, who frivolously[?] abridged or expanded the great texts, [according] to his own whim; [he thus] violated the sacred teaching, and wrought havoc with the true scriptures. We therefore append them at the end of [this list of] forgeries, as a caution to later generations" 二十三經。並是南齊竟陵王蕭子良。輕悉自心。於大本內。或增或損。斟酌成經。違反聖教。蕪亂真典。故附偽末。用誡後人.

[MR: This text is treated as anonymous in CSZJJ.]

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[Ōno 1954]  Ōno Hōdō 大野法道. Daijō kai kyō no kenkyū 大乗戒経の研究. Tokyo: Risōsha 理想社, 1954. — 378

The Weicengyou yinyuan jing 未曾有因縁經 T754 is listed in the section of extant anonymous scriptures in CSZJJ, with the alternate title Weicengyou jing 未曾有經. Fajing ascribes it to Tanjing 曇景. LDSBJ (citing the Shixing catalogue 始興錄) gives the same ascription, regarding it as translated under the Qi 齊. Ōno provisionally accepts the ascription to Tanjing.

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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, P.3747, the following titles are listed, which may correspond to extant texts (in some cases, identification is rather tentative). In contrast to some other titles, which are treated in separate CBC@ entries, these titles are listed in the Bie lu without any further accompanying information (e.g. about ascription or date). Note that the Bie lu includes interlinear notes giving such information, and the scope of application of those interlinear notes is sometimes uncertain: it can be hard to tell whether they apply only to the single title preceding the note, or to a group of titles leading up to the note; and if they apply to a group of titles, how many. Titles in the DH ms. Bie lu are identified by the numbering in Tan (1991), given at the beginning of each line.

S.2872
8 察微王經一卷 T152(90)
9 佛說一切施王所行檀波羅蜜經一卷 T152(13)
10 佛說薩羅國經一卷 T520
11 佛說長壽王經一卷 T161

P.3747
12 佛說道神足無極變化經四卷 T816
16 無量清浄經二卷 T361
18 阿育王息壞目因緣經一卷 T2045
21 藥王藥上菩薩觀經 T1161
24 千佛因[囙]緣住經一卷 T426
26 八部佛名一卷 T429
28 賢劫千佛名一卷 T447ab
30 滅罪得福成佛經 T2871?
32 三慧經一卷 T768
37 未曾有因緣經二卷 T754
40 佛說四天王經 T590?
43 樂瓔珞莊嚴方便經一卷 T566
45 佛說仁王般若波羅蜜經一卷 T245
46 佛說遺日摩尼寶經一卷 T350
47 分別業報略經一卷 T723
48 勸發諸王要偈一卷 T1673
49 佛說淨除業障經一卷 T1494
54 觀世樓炭經一卷 T23?
55 雜阿鋡經五十卷 T99
56 雜譬喻經六卷 ?? cf. T204-T208
57 法尚住經 T819
58 婆須蜜菩薩 T1549
60 三歸五戒厭離經一卷 T72
61 分別功德經 T1507
64 權方便經 T565
68 優婆塞戒經七卷 T1488
70 後出阿彌陀佛偈一卷 T373
76 僧伽羅刹經三卷 T194
78 密迹金剛力士經五卷 T310(3)

Many of these same titles are treated as anonymous and extant in CSZJJ fascicle 4. The same is also true of a number of titles not listed here, because the texts in question appear not to be extant.

Texts presently ascribed to Dharmarakṣa and to Zhi Qian (excepting T361) are excluded from this entry, because they are treated in other CBC@ entries.

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