Text: T1305; 北斗七星念誦儀軌

Summary

Identifier	T1305 [T]
Title	北斗七星念誦儀軌 [T]
Date	1281-1313 [Franke 1990]
Translator 譯	Vajrabodhi, 菩提金剛, 金剛智 [T]

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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.	T1305; 北斗七星念誦儀軌	南天竺國三藏金剛智譯. Entry author: Michael Radich Edit	Title: 北斗七星念誦儀軌 People: Vajrabodhi, 菩提金剛, 金剛智 (translator 譯) Identifier: T1305
Yes	[Franke 1990] Franke, Herbert. "The Taoist Elements in the Buddhist Great Bear Sūtra." Asia Major, series III, 1 (1990): 75-111.	T1305; 北斗七星念誦儀軌 T1306; 北斗七星護摩祕要儀軌 T1307; 佛說北斗七星延命經 T1310; 北斗七星護摩法 T1311; 梵天火羅九曜	"...a non-canonical Buddhist text that invokes the gods of the seven starts of Ursa Major." Under the Yuan, translated into Mongolian, Tibetan and Uighur. "I try to demonstrate that at least some sections of the Chinese text are derived from Taoist literature." "It is certainly no coincidence that the Buddhist texts where our star names appear (Taisho nos. 1305, 1306, 1306, 1310 and 1311) have been reprinted from Japanese manuscripts and editions. None of these texts is, according to the colophons, attested earlier than the twelfth-century manuscripts found in Japanese monasteries." "[T1306] quotes a Book of Destiny (Lu-ming shu 錄命書), which shows some relationship with the description in chüan 6 of the Pao-p'u tzu....The borrowing from Taoism is even more obvious in [T1311]." "I...venture to suggest that a Buddhist Pei-tou ching, a prototype of Taisho no. 1307, was composed after 1281 but prior to 1313. Its compiler adopted elements of the Great Bear cult as found in Taoist texts and gave it the Buddhist form of a pseudo-sūtra purportedly preached by the Buddha himself..." Entry author: Michael Radich Edit	Date: 1281-1313
No	[Panglung 1991] Panglung, Jampa L. "Die tibetische Version des Siebengestirn-sūtras." In Tibetan History and Language: Studies Dedicated to Uray Géza on his Seventieth Birthday, herausgegeben von Ernst Steinkellner, 399-416. Wien: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien, Universität Wien, 1991.	T1305; 北斗七星念誦儀軌 T1306; 北斗七星護摩祕要儀軌 T1307; 佛說北斗七星延命經 T1310; 北斗七星護摩法	Panglung states that the canonicity of the Tibetan version of the "Seven Stars Sūtra" ("Big Dipper Sūtra", "Ursa Major Sūtra"), the sMe bdun zhes bya bai' skar ma'i mdo, is controversial. The text is incorporated into the Peking version of the canon only, and is also found in manuscripts in Berlin, and in dhāraṇī collections (gZungs bsdus). In the Peking canon it is inserted between two other sūtras which are regarded as apocrypha (sTag ma'i rtogs pa brjod pa, Mig bcu bnyis pa'i mdo). Panglung presents an edition and translation of the Tibetan text. Entry author: Michael Radich Edit

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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.

T1305; 北斗七星念誦儀軌

南天竺國三藏金剛智譯.

Entry author: Michael Radich

Edit

Title: 北斗七星念誦儀軌
People: Vajrabodhi, 菩提金剛, 金剛智 (translator 譯)
Identifier: T1305

Yes

[Franke 1990] Franke, Herbert. "The Taoist Elements in the Buddhist Great Bear Sūtra." Asia Major, series III, 1 (1990): 75-111.

"...a non-canonical Buddhist text that invokes the gods of the seven starts of Ursa Major." Under the Yuan, translated into Mongolian, Tibetan and Uighur. "I try to demonstrate that at least some sections of the Chinese text are derived from Taoist literature." "It is certainly no coincidence that the Buddhist texts where our star names appear (Taisho nos. 1305, 1306, 1306, 1310 and 1311) have been reprinted from Japanese manuscripts and editions. None of these texts is, according to the colophons, attested earlier than the twelfth-century manuscripts found in Japanese monasteries." "[T1306] quotes a Book of Destiny (Lu-ming shu 錄命書), which shows some relationship with the description in chüan 6 of the Pao-p'u tzu....The borrowing from Taoism is even more obvious in [T1311]." "I...venture to suggest that a Buddhist Pei-tou ching, a prototype of Taisho no. 1307, was composed after 1281 but prior to 1313. Its compiler adopted elements of the Great Bear cult as found in Taoist texts and gave it the Buddhist form of a pseudo-sūtra purportedly preached by the Buddha himself..."

Entry author: Michael Radich

Edit

Date: 1281-1313

[Panglung 1991] Panglung, Jampa L. "Die tibetische Version des Siebengestirn-sūtras." In Tibetan History and Language: Studies Dedicated to Uray Géza on his Seventieth Birthday, herausgegeben von Ernst Steinkellner, 399-416. Wien: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien, Universität Wien, 1991.

Panglung states that the canonicity of the Tibetan version of the "Seven Stars Sūtra" ("Big Dipper Sūtra", "Ursa Major Sūtra"), the sMe bdun zhes bya bai' skar ma'i mdo, is controversial. The text is incorporated into the Peking version of the canon only, and is also found in manuscripts in Berlin, and in dhāraṇī collections (gZungs bsdus). In the Peking canon it is inserted between two other sūtras which are regarded as apocrypha (sTag ma'i rtogs pa brjod pa, Mig bcu bnyis pa'i mdo). Panglung presents an edition and translation of the Tibetan text.

Entry author: Michael Radich

Edit