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Rethinking the Category of Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha |
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Shinohara, Koichi
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| Source |
Studies in Chinese Religions
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| Volume | v.1 n.1 |
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| Date | 2015 |
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| Pages | 70 - 81 |
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| Publisher | 中国社会科学院=Institute of World Religions, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences(CASS); Taylor & Francis Group |
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| Publisher Url |
http://casseng.cssn.cn/
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| Location | Leeds, UK [里茲, 英國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Keyword | dhāraṇī; apocrypha; translation |
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| Abstract | This paper reexamines the category of Chinese Buddhist apocrypha, sūtras composed in China rather than translated from Indian originals. Scholars have insisted on their importance for the study of Chinese Buddhist practices. I propose that the relationship between Indian Buddhist and local Chinese practices may be more ambiguous than this analysis suggests. I take my evidence from dhāraṇī sūtras. The Book of Consecration (Taisho 1331) has been interpreted as a Chinese Buddhist apocryphon. A list of deities reminiscent of Taoist registers appears in the opening section of this sūtra. But here some dhāraṇīs transcribed into Chinese characters in earlier translations of dhāraṇī sūtras are broken up and turned into lists of deities. This may be apocryphal, but in some translations of another dhāraṇī sūtra a dhāraṇī is translated as a list of deities. The distinction between translation and apocryphal composition is difficult to draw. The preoccupation with the Chinese setting and practice might also lead to failures to appreciate the importance of Indian elements. The Collected Dhāraṇī Sūtras was compiled in China, yet as a work attributed to an Indian ācārya it offers the earliest known record of a crucial development in the evolution of Esoteric Buddhism in India. |
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| Table of contents | Introduction 70
The opening section of the Book of Consecration 72
Dhāraṇī in the Anantamukhanirhāradhāraṇī sūtra 74
Two approaches to the Collected Dhāraṇī Sūtras 76
Disclosure statement 78
Notes 78
Bibliography 79
Appendix 1 80
Appendix 2 80
Appendix 3 81 |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/23729988.2015.1006841 |
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| Created date | 2017.01.24 |
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| Modified date | 2021.04.08 |
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