Text: T0387; 大方等無想經

Summary

Identifier	T0387 [T]
Title	大方等無想經 [T]
Date	[None]
Translator 譯	*Dharmakṣema, 曇無讖 [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.	T0387; 大方等無想經	Entry author: Michael Radich Edit	Title: 大方等無想經 People: *Dharmakṣema, 曇無讖 (translator 譯) Identifier: T0387
No	[Kawano 2006] Kawano Satoshi 河野訓. Shoki kan'yaku butten no kenkyū: Jiku Hōgo o chūshin to shite 初期漢訳仏典の研究 : 竺法護を中心として. Ise: Kōgakkan Daigaku Shuppanbu, 2006. — 83, 90-91 n. 16, referring to CSZJJ T2145 (LV) 11b11-26	Hailong wang jing 海龍王經 Pusa jie youpo jie tan wen 菩薩戒優婆戒壇文 T0157; 悲華經 T0387; 大方等無想經 T0397; 大方等大集經 T0663; 金光明經 T1488; 優婆塞戒經 T1581; 菩薩地持經; Pusa jie jing 菩薩戒經	Kawano points out that in CSZJJ, dates of translation are given for eight texts in the *Dharmakṣema corpus in the Song(-Yuan-Ming) line of transmission only (as witnessed by the Taishō apparatus), but not in the Korean, which forms the base edition for the Taishō. The extant texts in question are T157, T397(1-13, i.e. portions ascribed to Dharmakṣema only), T387, T663, T1488 and T1581; in addition, two lost texts are also listed, namely, the 海龍王經 and the 菩薩戒優婆戒壇文. This pattern is similar to that observed, but on a much larger scale, for works ascribed to Dharmarakṣa; and for two works ascribed to Guṇabhadra. Entry author: Michael Radich Edit
No	[Ono and Maruyama 1933-1936] Ono Genmyō 小野玄妙, Maruyama Takao 丸山孝雄, eds. Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 佛書解說大辭典. Tokyo: Daitō shuppan, 1933-1936 [縮刷版 1999]. — vol. 7, pp. 486-487	T0387; 大方等無想經	Mino Kōjun 美濃晃順’s description of 大方等無想經 T387 includes the following information: LDSBJ’s claim that there was an alternate translation of T387 with the same title ascribed to Zhu Fonian 竺佛念 may well be incorrect, because CSZJJ does not record any such work. There is a Tibetan translation of the same text as T387. Although T387 may appear to be a partial translation of a larger text called the *Mahāmegha-sūtra 大雲經, the real situation was more likely that the original text was still incomplete when Dharmakṣema brought it to China, but that eventually, even in India, composition stopped there and was never completed. Entry author: Atsushi Iseki Edit	People: *Dharmakṣema, 曇無讖 (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.

T0387; 大方等無想經

Entry author: Michael Radich

Edit

Title: 大方等無想經
People: *Dharmakṣema, 曇無讖 (translator 譯)
Identifier: T0387

[Kawano 2006] Kawano Satoshi 河野訓. Shoki kan'yaku butten no kenkyū: Jiku Hōgo o chūshin to shite 初期漢訳仏典の研究 : 竺法護を中心として. Ise: Kōgakkan Daigaku Shuppanbu, 2006. — 83, 90-91 n. 16, referring to CSZJJ T2145 (LV) 11b11-26

Kawano points out that in CSZJJ, dates of translation are given for eight texts in the *Dharmakṣema corpus in the Song(-Yuan-Ming) line of transmission only (as witnessed by the Taishō apparatus), but not in the Korean, which forms the base edition for the Taishō. The extant texts in question are T157, T397(1-13, i.e. portions ascribed to Dharmakṣema only), T387, T663, T1488 and T1581; in addition, two lost texts are also listed, namely, the 海龍王經 and the 菩薩戒優婆戒壇文. This pattern is similar to that observed, but on a much larger scale, for works ascribed to Dharmarakṣa; and for two works ascribed to Guṇabhadra.

Entry author: Michael Radich

Edit

[Ono and Maruyama 1933-1936] Ono Genmyō 小野玄妙, Maruyama Takao 丸山孝雄, eds. Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 佛書解說大辭典. Tokyo: Daitō shuppan, 1933-1936 [縮刷版 1999]. — vol. 7, pp. 486-487

T0387; 大方等無想經

Mino Kōjun 美濃晃順’s description of 大方等無想經 T387 includes the following information:

LDSBJ’s claim that there was an alternate translation of T387 with the same title ascribed to Zhu Fonian 竺佛念 may well be incorrect, because CSZJJ does not record any such work. There is a Tibetan translation of the same text as T387.

Although T387 may appear to be a partial translation of a larger text called the *Mahāmegha-sūtra 大雲經, the real situation was more likely that the original text was still incomplete when Dharmakṣema brought it to China, but that eventually, even in India, composition stopped there and was never completed.

Entry author: Atsushi Iseki

Edit

People: *Dharmakṣema, 曇無讖 (translator 譯)