Fó shuō mǎ yǒu sānxiāng jīng 佛說馬有三相經
Sūtra on the Three Marks of a Horse (parallel to Saṃyukta-āgama sūtra 920, Bié-yì Saṃyukta 146) by 支曜 (Zhī Yào, 譯)
About the work
A single-fascicle Eastern Hàn 後漢 translation of a discourse using the metaphor of three kinds of horse to illustrate three kinds of disciple. Sub-titled “出雜阿含別譯” (“excerpted from the variant Saṃyukta-āgama”). The Chinese parallels are T99[920] and T100[146].
Prefaces
The text bears no preface or postface. The only paratext is the canonical translator’s signature at the head: 「後漢沙門支曜譯」.
Abstract
T114 was produced during Zhī Yào’s Hàn period (185–220 CE), recorded in the frontmatter. The Indic source is presumed lost.
Links
- CBETA T02n0114 CBETA online text
- Kanseki DB
- 支曜 DILA
- Dazangthings date evidence (186): Taishō shinshū daizōkyō 大正新脩大藏經. Edited by Takakusu Junjirō 高楠順次郎 and Watanabe Kaigyoku 渡邊海旭. Tokyo: Taishō shinshū daizōkyō kankōkai/Daizō shuppan, 1924-1932. CBReader v 5.0, 2014. dazangthings entry