Morten Schlütter (Ph.D., Yale University) is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Iowa, and the former Director of the University of Iowa Center for Asian and Pacific Studies.
關鍵詞
Evolution of the Platform Sūtra=六祖壇經; Pojo Chinul=普照知訥 (1158–1210); Fabao ji tanjing=法寶記壇經; Chan=禪; Korean Buddhism
摘要
The Platform Sūtra 六祖壇經 is famous as a signature scripture of Chinese Chan 禪 Buddhism. The Platform Sūtra also has held an important role in Korean Buddhism, and the Buddhist reformer Pojo Chinul 普照知訥 (1158–1210) considered it central to his own practice and cited it a number of times in his writings. However, the Platform Sūtra has had a long history of evolution, appearing in a number of quite different versions from the beginnings of Chan in the eighth century to the Yuan dynasty (1279–1368) and beyond. Modern scholars have paid little attention to the question of what version(s) of the Platform Sūtra Chinul and other Korean Buddhist thinkers at his time had access to. In this essay, partly through a close examination of Chinul’s citations from the Platform Sūtra, I argue that an early version of the Platform Sūtra known as the Fabao ji tanjing 法寶記壇經 was likely the text that Chinul used. The Fabao ji tanjing is no longer extant, but through Chinul’s quotations we can make several deductions about the text and its important place on the evolutionary tree of the Platform Sūtra.
目次
Introduction 451 The Platform Sūtras 453 The Fabao ji tanjing 法寶記壇經 460 The Platform Sūtra in Korea 463 The Fabao ji tangjing in Korea after Chinul 482 Conclusion: The Fabao ji tanjing and its place in the ‘family tree’ of the Platform Sūtra 484 Bibliography 489
