Jīngāng bōrě bōluómì jīng lùn 金剛般若波羅蜜經論 (T1511)
Vasubandhu’s Vajracchedikā-prajñāpāramitā-sūtra-śāstra by 天親菩薩 (Vasubandhu, 造); translated by 菩提流支 (Bodhiruci, 譯)
About the work
A three-fascicle Northern-Wèi Chinese translation of Vasubandhu’s Vajracchedikā-prajñāpāramitā-sūtra-śāstra — the principal Yogācāra commentary on the Vajracchedikā (alongside Asaṅga’s T1510). Translated by Bodhiruci 菩提流支. Signature: 「天親菩薩造／元魏天竺三藏菩提流支譯」. The Taishō head-note cross-references T1513 (the alternative Vasubandhu commentary translated by 義淨 Yìjìng) and notes the related works at T1512 and T1514.
Prefaces
No preface or postface; only the canonical translator-signature. The opening praṇāma-verse: 「法門句義及次第，世間不解離明慧，大智通達教我等…」 (“The dharma-gate’s word-meanings and order, the world fails to grasp without bright wisdom; great intelligence comprehends, instructs us all…”).
Abstract
T1511 is the principal Yogācāra commentary on the Vajracchedikā by Vasubandhu, paralleling Asaṅga’s commentary T1510. The two-brother commentarial pairing — Asaṅga and Vasubandhu both writing on the Vajracchedikā — is one of the foundational documents of the Yogācāra reading of the Prajñāpāramitā. T1511 is dateable to Bodhiruci’s documented Luòyáng activity (509–527).
Translations and research
- Tucci, Giuseppe. Minor Buddhist Texts: Asaṅga’s Commentary on the Vajracchedikā. Rome: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, 1956. (Comparative apparatus on the Asaṅga / Vasubandhu commentary tradition.)
- Frauwallner, Erich. On the Date of the Buddhist Master of the Law Vasubandhu. Rome: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, 1951.
Links
- CBETA T25n1511
- Kanseki DB
- 天親菩薩 DILA
- 菩提流支 DILA
- Dazangthings date evidence (520, 530) — 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: 1924–1932; CBReader v 5.0, 2014).