Text: T0429; 佛說八部佛名經

Summary

Identifier T0429 [T]
Title 佛說八部佛名經 [T]
Date before Later Qin [Fang and Lu 2023]
Translator 譯 *(Gautama) Prajñāruci, 般若流支, 瞿曇般若流支, 瞿曇流支, 瞿曇般若留支 [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.

Entry author: Michael Radich

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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. — 667-668

Sakaino argues that the Ba bu Fo ming jing 八部佛名經 (T429 ascribed to *Gautama Prajnāruci 瞿曇般若流支) should be reclassified as anonymous. His reasoning are: six alternate translations are reported for the same text, five of which are extant. However, there is no evidence that T429 is the version translated by *Prajnāruci. Sakaino thinks that Fei took the anonymous Ba bu Fo ming jing in Sengyou's newly compiled catalogue of anonymous works 新集失譯錄 in CSZJJ, and listed it as the Ba Fo jing 八佛經 that he ascribed to *Prajnāruci in LDSBJ. Zhisheng believed this report, without duly observing that CSZJJ’s anonymous title was indeed the same as the text now ascribed to *Prajnāruci, and listed it with the original title Ba bu Fo ming jing. However, Sakaino points out that the vocabulary of T429 is rather old, such as 薜荔[v.l. 茘], and could not have been used by the same translator at that of *Saddharmasmṛtyupasthāna-sūtra 正法念處經 (T721 ascribed to *Prajnāruci). Thus, T429 should be regarded as the anonymous Ba bu Fo ming jing listed in CSZJJ.

Entry author: Atsushi Iseki

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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, P.3747, the following titles are listed, which may correspond to extant texts (in some cases, identification is rather tentative). In contrast to some other titles, which are treated in separate CBC@ entries, these titles are listed in the Bie lu without any further accompanying information (e.g. about ascription or date). Note that the Bie lu includes interlinear notes giving such information, and the scope of application of those interlinear notes is sometimes uncertain: it can be hard to tell whether they apply only to the single title preceding the note, or to a group of titles leading up to the note; and if they apply to a group of titles, how many. Titles in the DH ms. Bie lu are identified by the numbering in Tan (1991), given at the beginning of each line.

S.2872
8 察微王經一卷 T152(90)
9 佛說一切施王所行檀波羅蜜經一卷 T152(13)
10 佛說薩羅國經一卷 T520
11 佛說長壽王經一卷 T161

P.3747
12 佛說道神足無極變化經四卷 T816
16 無量清浄經二卷 T361
18 阿育王息壞目因緣經一卷 T2045
21 藥王藥上菩薩觀經 T1161
24 千佛因[囙]緣住經一卷 T426
26 八部佛名一卷 T429
28 賢劫千佛名一卷 T447ab
30 滅罪得福成佛經 T2871?
32 三慧經一卷 T768
37 未曾有因緣經二卷 T754
40 佛說四天王經 T590?
43 樂瓔珞莊嚴方便經一卷 T566
45 佛說仁王般若波羅蜜經一卷 T245
46 佛說遺日摩尼寶經一卷 T350
47 分別業報略經一卷 T723
48 勸發諸王要偈一卷 T1673
49 佛說淨除業障經一卷 T1494
54 觀世樓炭經一卷 T23?
55 雜阿鋡經五十卷 T99
56 雜譬喻經六卷 ?? cf. T204-T208
57 法尚住經 T819
58 婆須蜜菩薩 T1549
60 三歸五戒厭離經一卷 T72
61 分別功德經 T1507
64 權方便經 T565
68 優婆塞戒經七卷 T1488
70 後出阿彌陀佛偈一卷 T373
76 僧伽羅刹經三卷 T194
78 密迹金剛力士經五卷 T310(3)

Many of these same titles are treated as anonymous and extant in CSZJJ fascicle 4. The same is also true of a number of titles not listed here, because the texts in question appear not to be extant.

Texts presently ascribed to Dharmarakṣa and to Zhi Qian (excepting T361) are excluded from this entry, because they are treated in other CBC@ entries.

Entry author: Michael Radich

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[Fang and Lu 2023]  Fang Yixin 方一新 and Lu Lu 盧鹭. “Jin shiyu nian cong yuyan jiaodu kaobian keyi Fojing chengguo de huigu yu zhanwang” 近十余年從語言角度考辨可疑佛經成果的回顧與展望.” Journal of Zhejiang University (Humanities and Social Sciences Online Edition), Jan. 2023: 1–24. — 14

In an article surveying scholarship on questions of attribution in the Chinese canon published in the last decade, Fang and Lu state that Zhang Guoliang argues that the translation of the Ba bu Fo ming jing 八部佛名經 T429 should date to the Western Jin dynasty, or predate the Later Qin, because the phraseology found in it differs from that typical of *Prajñāruci 般若流支’s translations. They refer to

Zhang Guoliang 張國良. “Yuan Wei yijing yiwen yanjiu” 元魏譯經異文研究. PhD diss., Hunan shifan daxue 湖南師範大學 (2016): 216–223.

Entry author: Mengji Huang

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