Text: Xiao Xulai jing 小須賴經, "Lesser Sūrataparipṛcchā"

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• Xiao Xulai jing 小須賴經, "Lesser Sūrataparipṛcchā"

The Xiao Xulai jing 小須賴經 ("Lesser Sūrataparipṛcchā") is included in Dao'an's list of anonymous scriptures, Fajing and Yancong, omitted in LDSBJ, and included again in KYL. According to Hayashiya, Tokiwa claims that the Xiao Xulai jing must have been translated by either Bo Yan 白延, Zhi Qian 支謙, Dharmarakṣa 法護 or Guṇabhadra 求那跋陀羅. However, Hayashiya rejects all four of these options for the following reasons:

1) He argues that the text must not be Guṇabhadra's translation because it was in Dao'an's list (which would be anachronistic).

2) The translation by Bo Yan 白延 is identical with the existent Sūrataparipṛcchā, Xulai jing 須頼經 T329, translated by Zhi Shilun 支施崙, and thus the version by Bo Yan 白延 in fact does not exist.

3) Dao'an was aware of its existence of the translation by Dharmarakṣa, and so that version cannot be this Xiao Xulai jing, which is listed separately by Dao'an.

4) Similarly, the version by Zhi Qian 支謙 was also known to Dao'an. In addition, the Zhi Qian version is actually another extant text, the Sūrataparipṛcchā 須頼經 T328, which is listed as translated by Bo Yan 白延 (for further evidence and discussion, Hayashiya refers to his own work, Hayashiya1945, Chapter 3).

Thus, Hayashiya maintains that KYL is correct in recording the Xiao Xulai jing as an anonymous scripture, although he maintains that the date at which it was produced could have been earlier than the W. Jin period shown by KYL. It is better to say that it was translated in the W. Jin or the Wei-Wu period, because the text has been lost since a very early stage.

Entry author: Atsushi Iseki

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• Title: Xiao Xulai jing 小須賴經, "Lesser Sūrataparipṛcchā"
• People: Anonymous (China), 失譯, 闕譯, 未詳撰者, 未詳作者, 不載譯人 (translator 譯)
• Date: 西晋