Fó shuō fǎyìn jīng 佛說法印經
Sūtra of the Dharma-Seal (parallel to Saṃyukta-āgama sūtra 80, and to T103) by 施護 (Shīhù / Dānapāla, 譯)
About the work
The Fó shuō fǎ-yìn jīng is a single-fascicle Northern-Sòng translation of the Dharma-seals discourse, a parallel of T103 (Dharmarakṣa). The Chinese title 法印 (“Dharma-seal”) is the standard term that displaced the older 聖法印.
Prefaces
The text bears no preface or postface. The only paratext is the Sòng-court translator’s signature at the head: 「西天譯經三藏朝奉大夫試鴻臚卿傳法大師臣施護奉詔譯」.
Abstract
T104 is one of Shīhù’s series of Sòng-Institute renderings; the defensible bracket 982–1017 is recorded in the frontmatter. The Indic source is presumed lost.
Translations and research
- See KR6a0103 for the comparative literature.
Links
- CBETA T02n0104 CBETA online text
- Kanseki DB
- 施護 DILA
- Dazangthings date evidence (1000): Taishō shinshū daizōkyō 大正新脩大藏經, ed. Takakusu Junjirō 高楠順次郎 and Watanabe Kaigyoku 渡邊海旭 (Tokyo: Taishō shinshū daizōkyō kankōkai, 1924–1932). dazangthings entry