Text: T2833; 觀心論

Summary

Identifier T2833 [T]
Title 觀心論 [T]
Date before 706 [McRae 1986]
Author Shenxiu 神秀 [McRae 1986]

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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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  • Title: 觀心論
  • Identifier: T2833

No

[McRae 1986]  McRae, John R. The Northern School and the Formation of Early Ch’an Buddhism. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986. — 207–209

McRae argues that this text was “unquestionably” composed by Shenxiu 神秀 (d. 706).

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No

[Ibuki 2016]  Ibuki Atsushi 伊吹敦,. “Kanshiron to shushin yōron no seiritsu to sono eikyō”『観心論』と『修心要論』の成立とその影響. Zengaku kenkyū 禅学研究 94 (2016):1–26. — 2-8

Ibuki Atsushi proposes that this is a work composed by Shenxiu’s disciples, probably Puji 普寂 (d. 739) and Yifu 義福, after Shenxiu’s 神秀 death in 706.

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