Zá pìyù jīng 雜譬喻經 (T205)
Sūtra of Miscellaneous Parables by 失譯 (anonymous translator, 譯; appended to the Hàn register)
About the work
A two-fascicle pìyù-anthology of 32 narratives, anonymous translation appended to the Hàn register. Signature: 「失譯人名附後漢錄」. The opening parable: “A bodhisattva delivering beings is like a skilled wet-nurse caring for an infant: there are four duties — first, to bathe him clean; second, to feed him so he is full; third, to lay him to sleep peacefully; fourth, to protect him from harm…”
Prefaces
No preface or postface; only the canonical signature.
Abstract
T205 is one of three Taishō Zá pìyù jīng anthologies (T204, T205, T207); see T204 for the full series-discussion. The Hàn-register attribution in the catalog is conventional rather than documented; modern scholarship (Mizuno) treats this anthology as one of several anonymous Hàn-period Chinese-language pìyù compilations whose actual translation date and provenance remain uncertain.
Translations and research
- See bibliography under T204.