Jiù zá pìyù jīng 舊雜譬喻經
Old Sūtra of Miscellaneous Parables by 康僧會 (Kāng Sēnghuì, 譯)
About the work
A two-fascicle pìyù-anthology of 61 narratives translated by 康僧會 Kāng Sēnghuì in the Wú. Signature: 「吳天竺三藏康僧會譯」. The “Jiù” 舊 (“old”) prefix in the title distinguishes this work from the later Zá pìyù jīng anthologies in the Taishō (T204, T205, T207, T208).
Prefaces
No preface or postface; only the canonical translator-signature.
Abstract
T206 is the most securely-attributed of the Chinese pìyù-anthologies: the attribution to Kāng Sēnghuì (the translator of [[KR6b0001|Liùdù jí jīng (T152)]]) is broadly accepted in modern scholarship on the basis of stylistic and lexical features. The translation can be dated to Kāng Sēnghuì’s documented Wú-period activity at Jiànkāng (247–280). The narrative-content overlaps in part with T152; some of the jātaka-style pìyù in T206 likely represent excerpts or paraphrases of T152 material recompiled for shorter-form popular preaching use.
Translations and research
- Chavannes, Édouard. Cinq cents contes et apologues extraits du Tripitaka chinois. Paris: Leroux, 1910–1934. (T206 narratives are translated in vols. 1–2.)
- Mizuno Kōgen 水野弘元. “Kyū-zōhi-yu kyō ni tsuite” 舊雜譬喩經について. Bukkyō kenkyū.
Links
- CBETA online text
- Kāng Sēnghuì (康僧會) DILA
- Kanseki DB
- Dazangthings date evidence (250, 266, 300): [ Fajing 594 ] Fajing 法經. Zhongjing mulu 眾經目錄 T2146. T2146 (LV) 144b13 — dazangthings.nz