Text: Mile xia jiao 彌勒下教

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Title	Mile xia jiao 彌勒下教 [CSZJJ]
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No	[CSZJJ] Sengyou 僧祐. Chu sanzang ji ji (CSZJJ) 出三藏記集 T2145. — T2145:55.39a17-20.	Mile xia jiao 彌勒下教	Sengyou regards this text as suspect. 彌勒下教一卷(在鉢記後)....右十二部經記。或義理乖背。或文偈淺鄙。故入疑錄。庶耘蕪穬以顯法寶. Entry author: Michael Radich Edit	Title: Mile xia jiao 彌勒下教
No	[Hureau 2009] Hureau, Sylvie. "Translations, Apocrypha, and the Emergence of the Buddhist Canon." In Early Chinese Religion, Part Two: The Period of Division (220-589 AC), edited by John Lagerwey and Lü Pengzhi, 741-774. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4: China. Leiden: Brill, 2009. — 770-771	Fo bo ji jiashen nian daoshui ji Yueguang pusa chushi 佛鉢記甲申年大水及月光菩薩出事; Fo bo jing 佛鉢經 Guan Yueguang pusa ji 觀月光菩薩記 Mile xia jiao 彌勒下教	Hureau notes that these three lost texts were mentioned as suspect by Sengyou in CSZJJ. On the strength of their titles, she treats them as examples of texts which would have taught apocalyptic themes connected with a messianic theme. "None of these apocrypha have been found, but we may surmise they took up and developed a prediction of the Buddha reported by canonical sūtras concerning the arrival in China of the bodhisattva Yueguang [*Candraprabhā(kumāra)] at the time of the extinction of the Law (referring also to T545, T534). Entry author: Michael Radich Edit

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[CSZJJ] Sengyou 僧祐. Chu sanzang ji ji (CSZJJ) 出三藏記集 T2145. — T2145:55.39a17-20.

Mile xia jiao 彌勒下教

Sengyou regards this text as suspect.
彌勒下教一卷(在鉢記後)....右十二部經記。或義理乖背。或文偈淺鄙。故入疑錄。庶耘蕪穬以顯法寶.

Entry author: Michael Radich

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Title: Mile xia jiao 彌勒下教

[Hureau 2009] Hureau, Sylvie. "Translations, Apocrypha, and the Emergence of the Buddhist Canon." In Early Chinese Religion, Part Two: The Period of Division (220-589 AC), edited by John Lagerwey and Lü Pengzhi, 741-774. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4: China. Leiden: Brill, 2009. — 770-771

Hureau notes that these three lost texts were mentioned as suspect by Sengyou in CSZJJ. On the strength of their titles, she treats them as examples of texts which would have taught apocalyptic themes connected with a messianic theme. "None of these apocrypha have been found, but we may surmise they took up and developed a prediction of the Buddha reported by canonical sūtras concerning the arrival in China of the bodhisattva Yueguang [*Candraprabhā(kumāra)] at the time of the extinction of the Law (referring also to T545, T534).

Entry author: Michael Radich

Edit