This article is dedicated to Professor Hara Minoru, Member of the Japanese Academy. Now retiring from the International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies, Prof. Hara has been Rector, Chancellor, Professor at the College and Director of its Research Institute. Many of us hope that he will continue his magistral contribution to the Sanskrit studies for a long time to come.
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Introduction 154 I.On the Chinese Buddhist Compilations 153 The Author of the Shijiapu 153 A.Compilations Contemporary with the Shijiapu 150 B.Compilations Immediately Posterior to the Shijiapu 147
Scope and method of Sengyou in the Shijiapu 146 I.Ambitions of Sengyou 146 1.Erudition 146 2.Comparison 144 3.Exhaustiveness 144 II.Method of Sengyou 143 1.Anthology and Not Patchwork 143 2. Personal Remarks Made by the Compiler at the End of Several Chapters 141 III.A Few More Characteristics of the Work 141 1.Pu and Ji 141 2.Length and Content of the Chapters 140 3.Order of the Chapters 139 4.Multiple Variations Among the Sources Used 138
The Crucial Chapter IV of the Shijapu 137 1. Contrast Between Chapter IV and the Immediately Preceding and Following Chapters 137 2 Discrepancy in the Chapter on the Youth of Sakyamuni 136
The Lives of the Buddha in the Chinese Canon Toward a Global Vision 134 I.The situation before Sengyou 134 II.Global Approach to the Biography of the Buddha 130 III.The Posterity of the Shijiapu 128 Conclusion 126 Abbreviations 125 List of quoted work 125
