Text: X0026; 大梵天王問佛決疑經

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Identifier	X0026 [X]
Title	大梵天王問佛決疑經 [X]
Date	before 1036-1064 [McRae DDB]
Author	Anonymous (China), 失譯, 闕譯, 未詳撰者, 未詳作者, 不載譯人 [McRae 2017]

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Preferred?	Source	Pertains to	Argument	Details
No	[X] X = Xuzang jing. Shinsan dai Nippon zokuzōkyō (卍新纂大日本續藏經). Edited by Kawamura Kōshō 河村孝照; Nishi Giyū 西義雄, and Tamaki Kōshirō 玉城康四郎. Tōkyō : Kokusho Kankōkai, Shōwa 50-Heisei 1 [1975-1989]. Originally published by the Dai Nihon zoku Zōkyō. Kyōto : Zōkyō Shoin, 1905-1912. Version of the Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association (CBETA).	X0026; 大梵天王問佛決疑經	Entry author: Michael Radich Edit	Title: 大梵天王問佛決疑經 Identifier: X0026
Yes	[McRae DDB] McRae, John. DDB s.v. 大梵天王問佛決疑經 — Accessed April 2014	X0026; 大梵天王問佛決疑經	"Although we do not know when the Da fantianwang wenfo jueyi jing was written, we can tell, that the story begins appearing in Chan literature sometime between the years 1036 and 1064..." "Ono Genmyō 小野玄妙, Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, 7:495d–96a (article by Ōkubo Kenzui 大久保堅瑞), notes that Nukariya Kaiten 忽滑谷快天, Zengaku shisōshi 禅学思想史, 1: 293–94, discusses the account and introduces much of the textual information given here in greater detail. There is also a substantial entry, giving a much fuller account than that here, in the Mochizuki Bukkyō daijiten 5:4155b-56a." Entry author: Michael Radich Edit	Date: before 1036-1064
No	[McRae 2017] McRae, John R. “Glimmerings of India: Nukariya Kaiten 忽滑谷快天 and the Transmission of Zen from India to China.” In Buddhist Transformations and Interactions: Essays in Honor of Antonino Forte, edited by Victor H. Mair, 180-234. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2017. — 191	X0026; 大梵天王問佛決疑經 X0027; 大梵天王問佛決疑經	McRae briefly notes that already in 1905, Nukariya Kaiten had "argue[d] from quite a number of perspectives that [X26, X27] is apocryphal." This text is significant because it is the basis for the story that the Buddha transmitted the Dharma to Mahākāśyapa by holding up a flower, at which Mahākāśyapa signalled his understanding by smiling, 拈花微笑. McRae is here summarising Nukariya's Zengaku hihanron 禪學批判論 (Tokyo: Komeisha, 1905). Entry author: Michael Radich Edit	People: Anonymous (China), 失譯, 闕譯, 未詳撰者, 未詳作者, 不載譯人 (author)

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[X] X = Xuzang jing. Shinsan dai Nippon zokuzōkyō (卍新纂大日本續藏經). Edited by Kawamura Kōshō 河村孝照; Nishi Giyū 西義雄, and Tamaki Kōshirō 玉城康四郎. Tōkyō : Kokusho Kankōkai, Shōwa 50-Heisei 1 [1975-1989]. Originally published by the Dai Nihon zoku Zōkyō. Kyōto : Zōkyō Shoin, 1905-1912. Version of the Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association (CBETA).

X0026; 大梵天王問佛決疑經

Entry author: Michael Radich

Edit

Title: 大梵天王問佛決疑經
Identifier: X0026

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[McRae DDB] McRae, John. DDB s.v. 大梵天王問佛決疑經 — Accessed April 2014

X0026; 大梵天王問佛決疑經

"Although we do not know when the Da fantianwang wenfo jueyi jing was written, we can tell, that the story begins appearing in Chan literature sometime between the years 1036 and 1064..." "Ono Genmyō 小野玄妙, Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, 7:495d–96a (article by Ōkubo Kenzui 大久保堅瑞), notes that Nukariya Kaiten 忽滑谷快天, Zengaku shisōshi 禅学思想史, 1: 293–94, discusses the account and introduces much of the textual information given here in greater detail. There is also a substantial entry, giving a much fuller account than that here, in the Mochizuki Bukkyō daijiten 5:4155b-56a."

Entry author: Michael Radich

Edit

Date: before 1036-1064

[McRae 2017] McRae, John R. “Glimmerings of India: Nukariya Kaiten 忽滑谷快天 and the Transmission of Zen from India to China.” In Buddhist Transformations and Interactions: Essays in Honor of Antonino Forte, edited by Victor H. Mair, 180-234. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2017. — 191

McRae briefly notes that already in 1905, Nukariya Kaiten had "argue[d] from quite a number of perspectives that [X26, X27] is apocryphal." This text is significant because it is the basis for the story that the Buddha transmitted the Dharma to Mahākāśyapa by holding up a flower, at which Mahākāśyapa signalled his understanding by smiling, 拈花微笑. McRae is here summarising Nukariya's Zengaku hihanron 禪學批判論 (Tokyo: Komeisha, 1905).

Entry author: Michael Radich

Edit

People: Anonymous (China), 失譯, 闕譯, 未詳撰者, 未詳作者, 不載譯人 (author)