Text: Mulian gongde jing 目連功德經; Mulian yinyuan gongde jing 目連因緣功德經; Landa wang jing 藍達王經

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Title Landa wang jing 藍達王經; Mulian yinyuan gongde jing 目連因緣功德經; Mulian gongde jing 目連功德經 [CSZJJ]
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[CSZJJ]  Sengyou 僧祐. Chu sanzang ji ji (CSZJJ) 出三藏記集 T2145. — T2145 (LV) 19b14

Entry author: Michael Radich

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  • Title: Landa wang jing 藍達王經; Mulian yinyuan gongde jing 目連因緣功德經; Mulian gongde jing 目連功德經

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[Shi Tianchang 1998]  Shi Tianchang 釋天常. "Liu di ji yanjiu" 六度集研究. Chung-Hwa Buddhist Studies 中華佛學研究 2 (1998): 75-104. — 78-80

Shi Tianchang treats the Zhong xin zheng xing jing 忠心正行經 as part of a larger problem of titles/texts reported in traditional catalogues as excerpted from Kang Senghui's Liu du ji 六度集, which do not appear in the extant T152.

The Zhong xin zheng xing jing is reported in CSZJJ under the title 忠心政行經, as extant, and excerpted from the Liu du ji, with alternate titles 忠心經, which is recorded in the Jiu lu 舊錄 as existing in a larger and smaller version, T2145 (LV) 29a12. The text is treated by Fajing as a chao 抄 from the Liu du ji, with the alternate titles Landa wang jing 監[v.l. 藍 SYM]達王經 and Mulian gongde jing 目連功德經. Treatment in Yancong and Jingtai is similar. In LDSBJ, this title receives a hitherto unknown ascription to Tanwulan.

The Zhong xin jing 忠心經 T743 has a similar title. In KYL, Zhisheng identifies the text circulating under this title with the older text reportedly excerpted from the Liu du ji, but Tianchang holds that this identification was erroneous. He also holds that the ascription of T743 to Tanwulan in the present Taishō is also erroneous, since it is based upon the LDSBJ identification of the title with the roaming text excerpted from the Liu du ji. Tianchang adduces glosses to the text in the Yiqie jing yin yi and Kehong's lexicon; the items glossed appear in the same order in the present T743. Thus, the text Zhisheng had was, in Tianchang's opinion, unrelated to the text earlier reported as excerpted from the Liu du ji.

Tianchang also follows up reports about the title Landa wang jing in the catalogues. This text is reported in various catalogues. In CSZJJ, it is listed as an extant text, with two alternate titles: 目連因緣功德經 and 目連功德經. T2145 (LV) 19b14 (the title Zhong xin jing is here not mentioned). It is not carried in any of the Zhongjing mulu (Fajing, Yancong, Jingtai). LDSBJ ascribes it to Zhi Qian, and is followed by DTNDL and DZKZM. It is also excerpted in the Jing lü yi xiang, but by the time of Zhisheng's KYL, it is reported as lost. Tianchang argues that in theme and content, it does not fit with the overall plan of the Liu du ji. He concludes that if Fajing's report is correct, and Landa wang jing was an alternate title for the Zhong xin zheng xing jing, and the text was found in the Liu du ji, then it must have been added into the Liu du ji between Kang Senghui and the Sui.

However, Sengyou reports that two separate texts were extant—the Zhong xin zheng xing, and the Landa wang—and he identifies only the first as from the Liu du ji; he does not say anything about the identity of the two texts or titles. On this basis, Tianchang himself surmises that they were two separate texts, and the identification between the two is erroneous. However, he concludes that because the Zhong xin zheng xing is no longer extant, it is not possible to determine whether or not it was included in the original Liu du ji.

Entry author: Michael Radich

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