Text: T0210; 法句經; Dharmapada

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• T0210; 法句經; Dharmapada
• T0211; 法句譬喻經
• T0738; 佛說分別經
• X0015; Jing du sanmei jing 淨度三昧經; Jing du jing 淨度經; 淨度三昧經

Moretti shows in a table that a chunk of a verse and a half (six four-syllable feet) is rather closely paralleled (with slight variations in wording) between the Jing du sanmei jing 淨度三昧經 (cf. X15), the Dhammapada T210 ascribed to Weiqinan 維祇難 but probably by Zhi Qian (see Nattier 2008), the Dhammapada T211 ascribed to Faju 法炬 and Fali 法立, and the Si zi qin jing 四自侵經 T736 ascribed to Dharmarakṣa,

T210 (IV) 559b3-5; T211 (IV) 593a9-10; T736 (XVII) 538a6-7; X15 (I) 369b15-17.

Entry author: Michael Radich

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• T0210; 法句經; Dharmapada

Saitō offers a brief summary of biographical record of *Vighna 維祇難 in GSZ and CSZJJ. Then he points out that the Dharmapada 法句経 T210 (ascribed to 維祇難 and others 維祇難等 in the Taishō) contain many verses including rhyming ones, and that both *Vighna and Zhu Lüyan 竺律炎 who worked together with him did not have sufficient knowledge of Chinese to create rhyming verses. Accordingly, Saitō argues that the present T210 was not translated by this pair, but most likely by Zhi Qian, who took part in the translation project.

Entry author: Michael Radich

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• People: Zhi Qian 支謙 (translator 譯)

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• T0210; 法句經; Dharmapada

Nattier notes that the interlinear commentary in T225A cites T210. T210 must therefore date before the production of T225A.

Entry author: Michael Radich

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• T0210; 法句經; Dharmapada

As part of a larger series of studies of rhyming verse in Chinese Buddhist texts (especially but not exclusively translation texts), Saitō argues that because it contains such verse, which is unusual, the Dhammapada 法句經 T210 is in fact by Zhi Qian. Saitō notes that CSZJJ and GSZ give conflicting reports about the translatorship of the text, CSZJJ ascribing it to Zhi Qian and Jiangyan 將炎, but GSZ ascribing it to *Vighna and Jiangyan. He argues that both *Vighna and Jiangyan would have known too little Chinese to have produced the text, let alone such intricate, rule-bound rhyming verse. He notes that an anonymous preface to the text (T210 [IV] 566b14-c26) reports that the author of the preface 僕 had a disagreement about the translation with others involved in the process, arguing that it was too rough. This same author states that Indic gāthās are similar to Chinese shi 詩, an attitude which Saitō holds was rare in Chinese Buddhist translation history. Saitō argues that it is most plausible that Zhi Qian, whom he has shown elsewhere to have produced verse translations obeying the rhyming rules of the shi 詩 genre, would have held such attitudes, and Zhi Qian is therefore the likely author of the preface; and that the preface gives us reason to believe that Zhi Qian, dissatisfied with the initial product of the translation process, made his own polished revision, one of the hallmarks of which was precisely the rhyming verse we find in the text as extant.

Entry author: Michael Radich

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• People: Zhi Qian 支謙 (translator 譯)

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• T0210; 法句經; Dharmapada

Assuming that the authorial “I” 僕 of the Faju jing xu 法句經序 (preface to the Dharmapada T210) preserved in CSZJJ should be Zhi Qian himself, Kamata reads the preface as recording roughly [Kamata states that this passage is not very clearly written] that Zhu Jiangyan 竺将炎 translated the Dharmapada 法句經 brought to China by Weiqinan 維紙難 (*Vighna?), but Zhi Qian found this version problematic, as Zhu Jiangyan did not know Chinese well. Zhi Qian obtained the original verses and thirteen new chapters from Zhu Jiangyan, and from these materials, Zhi Qian produced a new version consisting of thirty-nine stories. Kamata supplements this information with a passage about Weiqinan from the CSZJJ biography of An Xuan 安玄, and also summarizes the biography of Weiqinan in GSZ (210-211). Kamata points out that the extant T210 has thirty-nine chapters 品. Hence, T210 should be identified with Zhi Qian’s version of the text (211). CSZJJ records both a Zhi Qian and a Zhu Jiangyan version, but the idea that two versions existed is probably erroneous. Kamata maintains that T210 should be classified as co-translated by Zhu Jiangyan and Zhi Qian. Dao’an ascribes the scripture to Zhi Qian only.

Entry author: Atsushi Iseki

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• People: [Zhu] Jiangyan, [竺]將炎 (co-translator 共譯); Zhi Qian 支謙 (co-translator 共譯)