Jīngāng bōrě bōluómì jīng 金剛般若波羅蜜經 (T236a)
Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā (Bodhiruci’s Translation) by 菩提流支 (Bodhiruci, 譯)
About the work
A single-fascicle Northern-Wèi translation of the Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā by Bodhiruci 菩提流支. Signature: 「元魏天竺三藏菩提流支譯」. The Taishō header cross-references all the Vajracchedikā translations in the canon: [KR6c0001|T220], T235, T236b, T237, T238, T239, and Xuánzàng’s.
Prefaces
No preface or postface; only the canonical translator-signature.
Abstract
T236a is the second oldest Chinese translation of the Diamond Sūtra, after Kumārajīva’s T235. The translation falls within Bodhiruci’s documented Luòyáng period (508–527). T236a is somewhat more literal than T235 and was used as the textual basis for Bodhiruci’s translation of [[KR6c0032|Vasubandhu’s Vajracchedikā-śāstra (T1511)]] — the principal Yogācāra commentary on the Diamond Sūtra.
The Taishō encodes T236 as two separate sub-recensions (236a and 236b) reflecting two slightly different transmitted versions in the canonical traditions; both are Bodhiruci’s translation in marginally different textual states.
Translations and research
- See bibliography under T235.