Reopening the Maitreya-files – Two almost identical early Maitreya sūtra translations in the Chinese Canon: Wrong attributions and text-historical entanglements
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100 In scroll twenty, its second part, the scrip- tures belong ing to the small vehicle (xiaosheng ruzang lu xia 小 乘入藏録下) are listed. 101 However within scroll twenty after the small vehicle section has ended we fi nd once more the information given in scroll nineteen. 102 As shown below in the translation of the 96 Cf. T55, no. 2154, 629c25–630a4. 97 Cf. T55, no. 2154, 651a16 for the heading of the section. 98 Cf. T55, no. 2154, 655a8 for the heading of the subsection. 99 Variant writing for the Zengyi ahan jing 増壹阿含經, cf. T55, no. 2154, 656a9–17. 100 Cf. T55, no. 2154, 680a27–b11. 101 Cf. T55, no. 2154, 691a11–22. 102 Cf. T55, no. 2154, 700c24–701a8. Reopening the Maitreya-fi les 287 relevant pas sages of the two scrolls, scroll twenty contains supple- mentary details on the transla tors. #103#104#105# Scroll nineteen 103 Scroll twenty 104 The Mile chengfo jing 彌勒成佛經 in one scroll has seventeen pages. The Mile chengfo jing 彌勒成佛經 in one scroll has seventeen pages and was translated by Kumārajīva. The Mile laishi jing 彌勒來時經 in one scroll has three pages. The Mile laishi jing 彌勒來時經in one scroll has three pages and is an anonymous translation. The Mile xiasheng jing 彌勒下生 經 in one scroll is also called Mile shou jue jing 彌勒授 105 決經, as well as Mile chengfo jing 彌勒成佛 經 and Dangxia chengfo 當下成佛 and Xiasheng chengfo 下生成佛. It be gins with Śāriputra. It has seven pages . The Mile xiasheng jing 彌勒下生 經in one scroll is also called Mile shou jue jing 彌勒受決經, as well as Mile chengfo jing 彌勒成佛經, and Dangxia chengfo 當下成佛, and Sheng chengfo 生成佛. It begins with Śāriputra. It has seven pages. It is a translation by Kumārajīva. The Mile xiasheng chengfo jing 彌勒 下生成佛經 in one scroll is a trans- lation by Yijing 義淨. It has fi ve pages. The Mile xiasheng chengfo jing 彌 勒下生成佛經 in one scroll has fi ve pages. It is a translation by Yijing 義 淨. As in the case of most Buddhist scriptures that existed or exist in sev eral translations, although the catalogues say that various trans lations were made of the same Maitreya sūtra (Mile xiash- eng jing 彌勒下生經), in reality all “true” translations were made on the basis of diff erent manuscripts, and thus represent at least slightly diff ering versions. Sūtras with similar names often, but not necessarily, belong to the same genre and expound similar content matter. Never theless, when comparing such texts, there are two main distinctions to be taken into account: translations of essentially diff erent sūtras, and translations of various versions of a certain sūtra. It goes without say ing that this distinction is not in 103 Cf. T55, no. 2154, 684a5–9. 104 Cf. T55, no. 2154, 705c12–16. 105 The character shou 授 might be a mistake for shou 受. The Taishō edition has no footnote regard ing this anomaly. 288 Elsa I. Legittimo every case an easy one. Even in the case of several translations that are said to have been made of the same sūtra, the variations found between these translations are not simply due to diff erent transla- tion methods, but are mostly based on divergences found in the source texts . Thus, even if this is written in the Kaiyuan shijiao lu, we should not take for granted that six transla tions of exactly the same Maitreya sūtra were ever made, but rather con sider that the author of the catalogue, in this case Zhisheng, consid ered certain translations to represent the same text. This kind of classifi cation needs to be understood in relation to other, more divergent transla- tions that clearly do not derive from the same text. Contents and length, i.e. the number of pages, of Chi nese translations are formal indicators for grouping translations as having been made from the same sūtra. If we return to the still extant fi ve Maitreya sūtras, the Mile tải về 1.27 Mb. Chia sẻ với bạn bè của bạn:
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