Text: T0458; 文殊師利問菩薩署經

Summary

Identifier	T0458 [T]
Title	文殊師利問菩薩署經 [T]
Date	[None]
Translator 譯	*Lokakṣema, 支婁迦讖 [T]

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Assertions

Preferred?	Source	Pertains to	Argument	Details
No	[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.	T0458; 文殊師利問菩薩署經	Entry author: Michael Radich Edit	Title: 文殊師利問菩薩署經 People: *Lokakṣema, 支婁迦讖 (translator 譯) Identifier: T0458
No	[Zürcher 1991] Zürcher, Erik. "A New Look at the Earliest Chinese Buddhist Texts." in Koichi Shinohara and Gregory Schopen, eds. From Benares to Beijing: Essays on Buddhism and Chinese Religion in Honour of Prof. Jan Yün-hua, 277-304. Oakville, Canada: Mosaic Press, 1991. — 279, 299	T0458; 文殊師利問菩薩署經	Zürcher argues that *Lokakṣema’s Wenshushili wen pusa shu jing 文殊師利問菩薩署經 T458 [Mañjuśrīparipṛcchā] is one of a group of twenty-nine texts which can be considered “genuine” Han translations. Zürcher reaches this conclusion by a “critical selection” process which requires reliable bibliographic attribution, alongside corroborating evidence from glosses, colophons, prefaces, or commentaries; as well as internal “terminological and stylistic analysis” to identify distinctive features particular to certain translator’s teams. He adds that T458 contains an “exposition of the stages of the Bodhisattva career, explained in terms of the doctrine of universal Emptiness. The sūtra shows an interesting affinity with the Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa.” Entry author: Sophie Florence Edit	People: *Lokakṣema, 支婁迦讖 (translator 譯)
No	[Sakaino 1935] Sakaino Kōyō 境野黄洋. Shina Bukkyō seishi 支那佛教精史. Tokyo: Sakaino Kōyō Hakushi Ikō Kankōkai, 1935. — 101-102	T0224; 道行般若經 T0280; 佛說兜沙經 T0313; 阿閦佛國經 T0417; Pratyutpannabuddhasammukhāvasthitasamādhi-sūtra; 般舟三昧經 T0418; 般舟三昧經 T0458; 文殊師利問菩薩署經 T0624; Dun zhentuoluo jing 伅眞陀羅經; Dun zhentuoluo suowen bao rulai jing 伅眞陀羅所問寶如來經; 佛說伅真陀羅所問如來三昧經; Dun zhentuoluo suowen bao rulai sanmei jing 伅眞陀羅所問寶如來三昧經 T0807; 佛說內藏百寶經	According to Sakaino, Dao’an endorsed twelve texts as the works of *Lokakṣema 支讖, seven of which are extant. Entry author: Atsushi Iseki Edit	People: *Lokakṣema, 支婁迦讖 (translator 譯)

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Details

[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.

T0458; 文殊師利問菩薩署經

Entry author: Michael Radich

Edit

Title: 文殊師利問菩薩署經
People: *Lokakṣema, 支婁迦讖 (translator 譯)
Identifier: T0458

[Zürcher 1991] Zürcher, Erik. "A New Look at the Earliest Chinese Buddhist Texts." in Koichi Shinohara and Gregory Schopen, eds. From Benares to Beijing: Essays on Buddhism and Chinese Religion in Honour of Prof. Jan Yün-hua, 277-304. Oakville, Canada: Mosaic Press, 1991. — 279, 299

T0458; 文殊師利問菩薩署經

Zürcher argues that *Lokakṣema’s Wenshushili wen pusa shu jing 文殊師利問菩薩署經 T458 [Mañjuśrīparipṛcchā] is one of a group of twenty-nine texts which can be considered “genuine” Han translations. Zürcher reaches this conclusion by a “critical selection” process which requires reliable bibliographic attribution, alongside corroborating evidence from glosses, colophons, prefaces, or commentaries; as well as internal “terminological and stylistic analysis” to identify distinctive features particular to certain translator’s teams. He adds that T458 contains an “exposition of the stages of the Bodhisattva career, explained in terms of the doctrine of universal Emptiness. The sūtra shows an interesting affinity with the Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa.”

Entry author: Sophie Florence

Edit

People: *Lokakṣema, 支婁迦讖 (translator 譯)

[Sakaino 1935] Sakaino Kōyō 境野黄洋. Shina Bukkyō seishi 支那佛教精史. Tokyo: Sakaino Kōyō Hakushi Ikō Kankōkai, 1935. — 101-102

According to Sakaino, Dao’an endorsed twelve texts as the works of *Lokakṣema 支讖, seven of which are extant.

Entry author: Atsushi Iseki

Edit

People: *Lokakṣema, 支婁迦讖 (translator 譯)