A triad of texts from fifth-century Southern China: the *Mahāmāyā-sūtra, the Guoqu xianzai yinguo jing, and a Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra Ascribed to Faxian

In previous work, I have shown that the (Mainstream, “smaller”) Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra ascribed to Faxian is in fact almost certainly not his work, and that internal evidence closely associates it with two other texts: the Guoqu xianzai yinguo jing ascribed to Guṇabhadra and the *Mahāmāyā-sūtra ascri...

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1. VerfasserIn: Radich, Michael (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Johns Hopkins University Press [2018]
In: Journal of Chinese religions
Jahr: 2018, Band: 46, Heft: 1, Seiten: 1-41
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B China (Süd) / Buddhistische Literatur / Geschichte 400-500
B Tipiṭaka. Suttapiṭaka. Dīgha-nikāya. Mahāparinirvāna-sūtra / Guoqu xianzai yinguo jing / Maya Sutra
weitere Schlagwörter:B Mahāparinirvāṇa-sutra
B Guṇabhadra
B *Mahāmāyā-sūtra
B Faxian
B Guoqu xianzai yinguo jing
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Zusammenfassung:In previous work, I have shown that the (Mainstream, “smaller”) Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra ascribed to Faxian is in fact almost certainly not his work, and that internal evidence closely associates it with two other texts: the Guoqu xianzai yinguo jing ascribed to Guṇabhadra and the *Mahāmāyā-sūtra ascribed to Tanjing. This paper analyzes the content of these texts, in order to ascertain (as much as possible) their likely relation to one another; the context in which they were composed; and their relations to that context. In addressing questions of context, the analysis applies innovative computer-assisted methods, which allow us to pinpoint detailed clues of highly specific intertextual relationships among a broad range of texts. This enables us to discover in the present triad of texts internal evidence pointing to close relations to a very specific body of literature in the fifth century.
ISSN:2050-8999
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of Chinese religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/0737769X.2018.1435370