Fāngděng sānmèi xíngfǎ 方等三昧行法
Method-Practice for the Vaipulya Samādhi by 智顗 (Zhìyǐ / Tiāntái dàshī, 說)
About the work
A single-juan meditation-liturgical manual by Zhìyǐ 智顗 on the fāngděng sānmèi 方等三昧 (“Vaipulya samādhi”), one of the four kinds of samādhi (sì zhǒng sānmèi 四種三昧) systematised by Zhìyǐ in the Móhē zhǐguān (KR6d0130).
Abstract
The Fāngděng sānmèi xíngfǎ belongs together with the Fǎhuá sānmèi chànyí (KR6d0191) and other Tiāntái meditation-liturgical manuals as the foundational liturgical apparatus of the Tiāntái meditative tradition. The composition is bracketed within Zhìyǐ’s productive period c. 575–597.
Translations and research
- Stevenson, Daniel B. “The Four Kinds of Samādhi in Early T’ien-t’ai Buddhism.” In Traditions of Meditation in Chinese Buddhism, ed. Peter N. Gregory, 45–97. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1986.
- Stevenson, Daniel B. “The Tiāntái Four Forms of Samādhi and Late North–South Dynasties, Sui, and Early T’ang Buddhist Devotionalism.” PhD diss., Columbia University, 1987.
Links
- CBETA online text T1940
- Kanseki DB
- Dazangthings date evidence (590) — Ng Yu-Kwan [吳汝鈞]. Tʼien-Tʼai Buddhism and Early Mādhyamika. Tendai Institute of Hawaii / Buddhist Studies Program, University of Hawaii, 1993.