Text: T0533; 菩薩生地經; Kṣemaṅkara-sūtra; 差摩竭經

Summary

Identifier T0533 [T]
Title 菩薩生地經 [T]
Date [None]
Unspecified Dharmarakṣa 竺法護, 曇摩羅察 [Sakaino 1935]
Translator 譯 Zhi Qian 支謙 [T]

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[T]  T = CBETA [Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association]. Taishō shinshū daizōkyō 大正新脩大藏經. Edited by Takakusu Junjirō 高楠順次郎 and Watanabe Kaigyoku 渡邊海旭. Tokyo: Taishō shinshū daizōkyō kankōkai/Daizō shuppan, 1924-1932. CBReader v 5.0, 2014.

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  • Title: 菩薩生地經
  • People: Zhi Qian 支謙 (translator 譯)
  • Identifier: T0533

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[Nattier 2006]  Nattier, Jan. “The Names of Amitābha/Amitāyus in Early Chinese Buddhist Translations (2).” ARIRIAB 10 (2007): 359-394. — 365

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  • Title: 差摩竭經; Kṣemaṅkara-sūtra

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[Zürcher 1959/2007]  Zürcher, Erik. The Buddhist Conquest of China: The Spread and Adaptation of Buddhism in Early Medieval China. Third Edition. Leiden: Brill, 1959 (2007 reprint). — 50, 336 n. 137

According to Zürcher, Sengyou attributed thirty-six texts to Zhi Qian 支謙, of which twenty-three have survived: T54, T68, T76, T87, T169, T185, T198, T225, T281, T362, T474, T493, T532, T533, T556, T557, T559, T581, T632, T708, T735, T790, T1011. However, Zürcher notes that T68 “is not mentioned by Dao’an.” This entry includes all twenty-three texts accepted by Zürcher as genuine Zhi Qian translations.

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[CSZJJ]  Sengyou 僧祐. Chu sanzang ji ji (CSZJJ) 出三藏記集 T2145. — T2145 (LV) 23a1, 7a2

In Sengyou's Chu sanzang ji ji, a title corresponding to that under which T533 is entered into the present canon (the Taishō) is regarded as an anonymous translation, that is to say, it is listed in the "Newly Compiled Continuation of the Assorted List of Anonymous Translations" 新集續撰失譯雜經錄 (juan 4): 菩薩生地經一卷. However, in Fajing and LDSBJ, this title is identified with the 差摩竭經. In CSZJJ, moreover, the title 差摩竭經一卷 is in fact listed among Zhi Qian’s texts. 差摩竭 is the name of the protagonist of T533 (Kṣemaṅkara; cf. Nattier 2008: 142-143).

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[Sakaino 1935]  Sakaino Kōyō 境野黄洋. Shina Bukkyō seishi 支那佛教精史. Tokyo: Sakaino Kōyō Hakushi Ikō Kankōkai, 1935. — 122

Sakaino claims that the 差摩竭經 [cf. 菩薩生地經 T533 ascribed to Zhi Qian ---MR] is probably the work of Dharmarakṣa, not Zhi Qian. He bases this judgement on the terminology, e.g., 無量壽佛清淨國. It is still possible that the text is the work of *Lokakṣema, Sakaino adds, but in any case there are no characteristics of Zhi Qian in the text.

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[Bie lu (DH mss)]  "Liu Song" Zhongjing bie lu 劉宋眾經別錄, S.2872, P.3747. Dating complex and unclear.

In the "Liu Song" Zhongjing bie lu 劉宋眾經別錄, as represented by a Dunhuang manuscript fragment, S.2872, are listed the following titles corresponding to extant texts by Zhi Qian (titles in the DH ms. Bie lu are identified by the numbering given to the manuscripts in Tan 1991): T169 = Tan#5, T493 = Tan#6, T533 = Tan#3, T557 = Tan#4, T561 = Tan#7, T632 = Tan#2, T1011 = Tan#1.

In addition, at the end if this group of titles (following T561 = Tan#7), an interlinear note states that Zhi Qian translated the text(s): 支謙以吳孫亮建興中出. Similar wording is used by Sy in CSZJJ to cover all of a list of 36 works he ascribes to Zhi Qian, T2145 (LV) 7a23-24. It is an open question whether interlinear titles of this sort in the Bie lu apply to groups of titles, or only to the single title immediately preceding the note.

Dating of this Bie lu is a complex matter; see other CBC@ entries directly on these DH manuscript witnesses, citations in later catalogues etc.

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