Text: T0656; 菩薩瓔珞經

Summary

Identifier T0656 [T]
Title 菩薩瓔珞經 [T]
Date [None]
Translator 譯 Zhu Fonian 竺佛念 [T]

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There are resources for the study of this text in the SAT Daizōkyō Text Dabatase (Saṃgaṇikīkṛtaṃ Taiśotripiṭakaṃ).

Assertions

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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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[Lin and Radich 2020]  Lin Qian 林乾 and He Shuqun 何书群 [Michael Radich]. "Zhu Fonian suo 'yi' dasheng jingdian de jisuanji fuzhu wenben fenxi yanjiu" 竺佛念所"译"大乘经典的计算机辅助文本分析研究. Shijie zongjiao wenhua 世界宗教文化 (2020), no. 6: 16-22.

Using computer-assisted analysis of internal evidence betraying intertextual relations, Lin and Radich follow up Nattier's (2010) discovery that T309 is a Chinese composition. They discover further Chinese sources for T309, and Chinese sources for T656. They corroborate Nattier's suggestion that these texts, even though they are Chinese compositions, are in fact by Zhu Fonian (they are stylistically consistent with his genuine translation works). They also analyse patterns in the ways that Zhu Fonian used his sources, and the uneven distribution of passages with obvious Chinese sources within these large texts (the distribution in the case of T656 being particularly uneven). Lin and Radich also consider the possibility that T384 and T385, two other Mahāyāna scriptures by Zhu Fonian and possibly connected with a similar episode in his life, may also be his own compositions. They are unable to find passages with direct Chinese sources in T384 and T385, but nevertheless, discuss certain other aspects of the content of the texts which do suggest that they are broadly texts of the same type as T309 and T656. They conclude that it is most likely that all four texts were composed in China by Zhu Fonian himself.

Entry author: Michael Radich

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