Reopening the Maitreya-files – Two almost identical early Maitreya sūtra translations in the Chinese Canon: Wrong attributions and text-historical entanglements
particu lar. Within the Chinese Canon
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- Appendix IV An overview of further relevant fi ndings from the catalogues
particu lar. Within the Chinese Canon yun zhi yan 云之言 is not found a second time. And han yun 漢云 is mostly used in the catalogues for indicating the Chinese mean ing of a foreign name or term that has been transcribed into Chinese phoneti- cally. It is a typical feature of Buddhasmṛti’s translations that they contain older vocabulary. Sugi has correct ly noticed this feature regarding this text although he did not link the translation to Buddha smṛti. 82 The Kaiyuan catalogue has the following entry: “The Mile danglai sheng jing 彌勒當來生經, one scroll: the Chu sanzang jiji (i.e. the catalogue by Sengyou) says that [this text] was [already] in Daoan’s catalogue, included in [the section contain ing] the texts for which the translators were unknown (lit. lost). Now it is recorded as the fi rst translation of the Western Jin period (265–317),” cf. T55, no. 2154, 629c28. 282 Elsa I. Legittimo 宋藏還得而編入之 為得之矣。而二録 並無下生經是法護 譯者。今云法護譯 者何耶。 To the [editors of the] Song canon it was also available and having obtained it they included it. But both cata- logues (the Chu sanzang jiji and the Kaiyuan lu) did not list the “Sūtra on the coming down to birth” as being translated by Dharmarakṣa. How can it be then that it is nowadays regarded as a translation by Dharmarakṣa? 伏俟賢哲 I will submit this to the wise ones. 83 #83# Appendix IV An overview of further relevant fi ndings from the catalogues The overview is focused on our main Maitreya sūtra no. 453 called Mile xiasheng jing 彌勒下生經. In regard to this title, however, it is important to keep in mind that it might also refer to the sūtras no. 454 and 455. For the sake of correctly presenting the data of the catalogues, I will primarily use the Chinese names. The data presented in this appen dix is drawn from the Chu sanzang jiji 出 三蔵記集 (T55, no. 2145) composed in 515 by Sengyou (僧祐), the oldest extant criti cal catalogue, and the Kaiyuan shijiao lu 開元釋 教録 (T55, no. 2154) composed in 730 by Zhisheng 智昇. Before making this choice, I have also searched other Chinese secon dary sources of the 6 th and 7 th cen tury, and verifi ed whether they contain important sup ple mentary data. An investigation on Maitreya sūtra related informa tion, for example in the Lidai sanbao ji 歴代三寶 紀 (T49, no. 2034) composed by Fei Changfang 費長房 in 597, did not yield rele vant fi ndings. This and later sources have hence been excluded. The author of the Chu sanzang jiji mentions the Mile xiasheng jing 彌勒下生經 twice. First, he includes it together with a further Mai treya sūtra, the Mile chengfo jing 彌勒成佛經, in a list of thirty- fi ve translations attributed to Kumārajīva. 84 Note that the title of 83 Which means: This matter awaits the judgement of future scholars. 84 For the mention of the text cf. T55, no. 2145, 11a5–6, for the expla- Reopening the Maitreya-fi les 283 the other Maitreya text probably refers to no. 456. Later the Chu san zang jiji mentions the Mile xiasheng jing 彌勒下生經 as a diff er- ent (anony mous) translation in a section on newly gathered extant scrip tures of which the translators’ names have been lost. 85 Among the scriptures that were extant and of which the translators’ names were lost it also lists a sūtra called Mile shoujue jing 彌勒受決經. 86 The author of the Kaiyuan shijiao lu at fi rst mentions the sūtra in question while referring to another one. The listed text is actu- ally the Mile laishi jing 彌勒來時經 and it is said to be the third translation of the scripture called Mile xiasheng jing 彌勒下生經, translated by Ku māra jīva as well as by others. 87 The Mile laishi tải về 1.27 Mb. Chia sẻ với bạn bè của bạn:
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