| Identifier | T310(4) [Mei 1996] |
| Title | Jingju taizi hui 淨居天子會; Svapna-nirdeśa [Mei 1996] |
| Date | [None] |
| Translator 譯 | Dharmarakṣa 竺法護, 曇摩羅察 [Kawano 2006] |
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[Kawano 2006] Kawano Satoshi 河野訓. Shoki kan'yaku butten no kenkyū: Jiku Hōgo o chūshin to shite 初期漢訳仏典の研究 : 竺法護を中心として. Ise: Kōgakkan Daigaku Shuppanbu, 2006. — 73-92, esp. Table 2, 75-77 |
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Kawano notes that in the list of works ascribed to Dharmarakṣa at CSZJJ T2145 (LV) 7b12-9c11, a considerable number of works (Kawano counts 31 [I count 38 --- MR] are given precise dates only in the versions of the text in the Song-Yuan-Ming line, that is to say, the same dates are missing in the Korean version of CSZJJ. This note lists all those texts. The Song version of the CSZJJ notes on these texts, as reconstructed according to the Taishō apparatus, reads as follows (the date in parentheses preceding each text is Kawano's calculation of the Gregorian equivalent for the reign date given in the note): (267) 比丘尼誡經一卷（太始三年九月十日出） Entry author: Michael Radich |
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[Boucher 2006] Boucher, Daniel. “Dharmarakṣa and the Transmission of Buddhism to China.” In China at the Crossroads: A Festschrift in Honor of Victor H. Mair. Special issue of Asia Major, 3rd Ser., 19, no. 1-2 (2006): 13-37. — 25-26, 28-29 |
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The 23 texts appearing on this list are all given dates in CZSJJ between the years 303 and 305. Boucher does not give his sources for individual dates in this list, saying only "I will coordinate the list of his translation corpus provided by Sengyou...with the preserved colophons that provide information on the dates and locations at which some texts were translated." [However, all dates appear in a list of Dharmarakṣa’s works at CSZJJ T2145:55.7b12-9c24. There, with the sole exception of that for T435, the Taishō apparatus indicates that these dates are found only in alternate witnesses, usually the Song, Yuan and Ming together, but not in the Korean---MR.] Boucher says of texts on this list (28-29): "From 303 to 305 there appears to be a rash of rapidly completed short texts. However, there are several reasons why we might be suspicious of these records. First, it was precisely during this period that northern China was in a desperate state of political and social turmoil. The Xiongnu and Xianbei had forced the emperor to flee the capital in 304, ravaging Luoyang before turning westward to attach Chang'an in 306. Although this by no means proves that Dharmarakṣa could not have found safe haven in which to continue his translation work, conditions would certainly have been far from ideal. Second, some of our records of these translations are in doubt. For example, the Shelifu huiguo jing that is currently extant is attributed to An Shigao but almost certainly postdates both him and Dharmarakṣa [no reference given]. If this is the same text referred to by Sengyou, it is a mistaken attribution. Also, the dates of all the texts translated in 304 except Yanjingding jing are uncertain; they refer either to dates that are not known to exist from our calendrical sources (e.g. the third year of the Tai'an 太安 period) or to dates that are ambiguous." Boucher's list, with his Sanskrit equivalents for the titles where he proposes on, and Chu sanzang ji ji (T2145) loci [not provided by Boucher], is as follows: 樓炭經 Lokasthāna-sūtra [listed as lost in CSZJJ 8c20] [The CSZJJ note applying to all these texts reads: Entry author: Michael Radich |
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[Mei 1996] Mei Naiwen 梅廼文. “Zhu Fahu de fanyi chutan 竺法護的翻譯初探.” Chung-Hwa Buddhist Journal 中華佛學學報 9 (1996): 49-64. — 53-54 |
[Mei discusses a text in the Ratnakūṭa 大寶積經 T310 ascribed to Dharmarakṣa as the 菩薩說夢經---I take it that he must mean the Svapna-nirdeśa T310(4)---MR.] Mei argues that briefly that it is unlikely that this work is actually by Dharmarakṣa. CSZJJ has a note which discusses a text entitled 佛為菩薩五夢經 among the titles it ascribes to Dharmarakṣa [T2145:55.8b7], but that text is supposed to be one juan, whereas the present T310(4) is in two juan; and the number of dreams is wrong for a title that explicitly lists "five dreams". The opening formula of the text is also wrong (如是我聞 vs. Dharmarakṣa's habitual 聞如是). Entry author: Michael Radich |
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[Kanakura 1972] Kanakura Enshō 金倉円照. “Hoke kyō ni okeru Hōgo to Rajū no yakugo 法華経における法護と羅什の訳語.” In Hoke kyō no Chūgokuteki tenkai 法華経の中国的展開, edited by Sakamoto Yukio 坂本幸男, 445-470. Kyoto: Heirakuji shoten, 1972. — 452-453 |
Kanakura points out problems with the attribution of the Svapna-nirdeśa 淨居天子會 T310(4) to Dharmarakṣa. The text opens (anachronistically) with 如是我聞; the ascription is missing in the Kunaishō version of the text (P), which reads instead 大譯出長房等錄; the text is treated as anonymous in Fajing. Entry author: Michael Radich |
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[Sasaki 1972] Sasaki Takanori 佐々木孝憲. “Jiku Hōgo no yakkyō ni tsuite: Shō hoke kyō kaidoku no tame no kisoteki kenkyū 竺法護の訳経について―正法華経解読のための基礎的考察.” In Hoke kyō no Chūgokuteki tenkai 法華経の中国的展開, edited by Sakamoto Yukio 坂本幸男, 471-506[R]. Kyoto: Heirakuji shoten, 1972. — 506 n. 1 |
Referring to Zhisheng's critical remarks in KYL, Sasaki mentions briefly that the style of T310(4) is atypical of Dharmarakṣa, and that the attribution of the text to him is "difficult to accept". Entry author: Michael Radich |
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