Text: T1519; 妙法蓮華經憂波提舍

Summary

Identifier T1519 [T]
Title 妙法蓮華經憂波提舍 [T]
Date [None]
Translator 譯 Bodhiruci, 菩提流支, 菩提留支; Tanlin, 曇林 [T]

There may be translations for this text listed in the Bibliography of Translations from the Chinese Buddhist Canon into Western Languages. If translations are listed, this link will take you directly to them. However, if no translations are listed, the link will lead only to the head of the page.

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

Assertions

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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.

Entry author: Michael Radich

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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. 10, pp. 367-369

According to Tajima Tokuon 田島徳音, the 妙法蓮華經憂波提舍 T1519 ascribed to Bodhiruci 菩提留支 and Tanlin 曇林, and the 妙法蓮華經論憂波提舍 T1520 ascribed to Ratnamati 勒那摩提 and Senglang 僧朗 are alternate translations of the same text. Only Bodhiruci’s version has a fourteen-line verse at the beginning. Other than that, the two scriptures differ only in wording and details.

Tajima explains the context in which those two were produced almost at the same time as follows (summarizing XGSZ and other materials): Ratnamati and Bodhiruci (as well as *Buddhaśānta 佛陀扇多) were engaged in scriptural translations in Luoyang 洛陽 in the same period (the early sixth century), but they worked separately without cooperating with one another due to the difference of lineage 師傳. Bodhiruci produced T1519 after Ratnamati’s T1520, adding the preface to the text. Tanlin 曇林 is generally regarded as having worked with Bodhiruci, but XGSZ states that he worked with *Prajñāruci 般若流支, not Bodhiruci 菩提留支.

Entry author: Atsushi Iseki

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