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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Auteur principal: Radich, Michael (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Johns Hopkins University Press [2018]
Dans: Journal of Chinese religions
Année: 2018, Volume: 46, Numéro: 1, Pages: 1-41
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B China (Süd) / Buddhist literature / History 400-500
B Tipiṭaka. Suttapiṭaka. Dīgha-nikāya. Mahāparinirvāna-sūtra / Guoqu xianzai yinguo jing / Maya Sutra
Sujets non-standardisés:B Mahāparinirvāṇa-sutra
B Guṇabhadra
B *Mahāmāyā-sūtra
B Faxian
B Guoqu xianzai yinguo jing
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Résumé: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
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal of Chinese religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/0737769X.2018.1435370