I’ve just discovered an excellent resource for those starting to read Chinese Buddhist texts. Lock, G. and Linebarger, G. S. (2018). Chinese Buddhist Texts: An Introductory Reader. Routledge. The authors give a full parsing of the Xīnjīng including many helpful notes. I don’t always agree with their reading, mostly because they haven’t incorporated modern research… Continue reading Lock and Linebarger
One of the problems we have studying this text is that there are differences in the Chinese text. When the CBETA version was created they added a lot of extraneous punctuation to the text, often in the wrong place. Here is the Xīnjīng as it appears in the printed Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō (with lines and… Continue reading Taishō 251
Image from: 中国佛教协会 (1978) 「房山云居寺石经」. 北京 : 文物出版社. = Chinese Buddhist Association. (1978) Mount Fang, Yunju Temple, Stone Sutras. Beijing: Cultural Relics Publishing House. Colophon transcription based on: 林元白。「唐代房山石经刻造概况」現代佛學 , 3 1958。 一九五八年。= Lin Yuanbai. ‘A General Survey of Fangshan Stone Sutras from the Tang Dynasty. Modern Buddhist Studies, 3, 1958. www.baohuasi.org/qikan/xdfx/5803-011A.htm. 北京圖書館金石組, 中國佛教圖書文物館石經組編 (1987) ‘房山石經題記匯編’. 书目文献出版社 : 新華書店北京發行所發行,… Continue reading Fangshan Stele
The Chinese Tripiṭaka contains a number of Heart Sutra texts (See Chinese). Amongst them is a short text version which includes a transliterated Sanskrit text (T256 8.851.a1-852.a23). Originally attributed to Xuanzang (602-664), his disciple Kuījī caused this text to be inscribed on a stone wall at some unknown date. It was then edited by Amoghavajra (705–774) but must have… Continue reading Taishō 256 (Cb)
