Text: *Ratnarāśi-sūtra 寶梁聚會 T310(44)

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Title	*Ratnarāśi-sūtra 寶梁聚會 T310(44) [Silk 1994]
Date	[None]
Translator 譯	Daogong 道龔 [Silk 1994]

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No	[Silk 1994] Silk, Jonathan Alan. “The Origins and History of the Mahāratnakūṭa Tradition of Mahāyāna Buddhism with a Study of the Ratnarāśisūtra and Related Materials.” PhD dissertation, University of Michigan, 1994. — 666-671	*Ratnarāśi-sūtra 寶梁聚會 T310(44)	Silk surveys the treatment of the text/title 寶梁聚 in the catalogues. It is first reported in CSZJJ, in two juan, where it is already ascribed to Daogong. This attribution is followed by Fajing, LDSBJ, Yancong, DTNDL, GJYJTJ, DZKZM, and KYL. Silk himself concludes "that the Ratnaraśi [i.e. T310(44)] was translated by a monk named Daogong, in Liangzhou, about 700 km. ESE of Dunhuang on the main road, in modern day Gansu province, right at the end of the fourth or at the very beginning of the fifth century." He notes further that "we know next to nothing" about this Daogong. Silk gives quite a full list of quotations of T310(44) in later works (672 ff.), to which he adds the treatment of the work in lexical compilations such as the Yiqie jing yin yi, a loose "quotation" in Zhiyi's Mohe zhi guan. He lists and discusses portions that were preserved in Skt in the Śikṣāsamuccaya and Sūtrasamuccaya (679-680, 689-703), including portions not found in extant versions of the text. Silk further discusses a single manuscript leaf in the Hoernle collection, which he transcribes and translates (681-683). He discusses a very interesting example of a probable mistake in the Chinese which was probably based upon a misreading of Middle Indic vajja as vajra instead of for vadya, and other similar examples, suggesting that the translators were working from a Prakrit rather than a Sanskrit text (referring to the work of Karashima 1992 on similar problems in Dharmarakṣa's Lotus T263). Note that Silk also gives a critical edition of the Chinese of T310(44) (550-635), and edition of the Tibetan (387-549), and an English translation (257-385). Entry author: Michael Radich Edit	Title: *Ratnarāśi-sūtra 寶梁聚會 T310(44) People: Daogong 道龔 (translator 譯)

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[Silk 1994] Silk, Jonathan Alan. “The Origins and History of the Mahāratnakūṭa Tradition of Mahāyāna Buddhism with a Study of the Ratnarāśisūtra and Related Materials.” PhD dissertation, University of Michigan, 1994. — 666-671

*Ratnarāśi-sūtra 寶梁聚會 T310(44)

Silk surveys the treatment of the text/title 寶梁聚 in the catalogues. It is first reported in CSZJJ, in two juan, where it is already ascribed to Daogong. This attribution is followed by Fajing, LDSBJ, Yancong, DTNDL, GJYJTJ, DZKZM, and KYL. Silk himself concludes "that the Ratnaraśi [i.e. T310(44)] was translated by a monk named Daogong, in Liangzhou, about 700 km. ESE of Dunhuang on the main road, in modern day Gansu province, right at the end of the fourth or at the very beginning of the fifth century." He notes further that "we know next to nothing" about this Daogong.

Silk gives quite a full list of quotations of T310(44) in later works (672 ff.), to which he adds the treatment of the work in lexical compilations such as the Yiqie jing yin yi, a loose "quotation" in Zhiyi's Mohe zhi guan. He lists and discusses portions that were preserved in Skt in the Śikṣāsamuccaya and Sūtrasamuccaya (679-680, 689-703), including portions not found in extant versions of the text. Silk further discusses a single manuscript leaf in the Hoernle collection, which he transcribes and translates (681-683). He discusses a very interesting example of a probable mistake in the Chinese which was probably based upon a misreading of Middle Indic vajja as *vajra instead of for *vadya, and other similar examples, suggesting that the translators were working from a Prakrit rather than a Sanskrit text (referring to the work of Karashima 1992 on similar problems in Dharmarakṣa's Lotus T263).

Note that Silk also gives a critical edition of the Chinese of T310(44) (550-635), and edition of the Tibetan (387-549), and an English translation (257-385).

Entry author: Michael Radich

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Title: *Ratnarāśi-sūtra 寶梁聚會 T310(44)
People: Daogong 道龔 (translator 譯)