Huáyán yī chéng chéng fó miào yì 華嚴一乘成佛妙義
The Wonderful Doctrine of Becoming a Buddha through the One-Vehicle of the Huáyán [Sūtra] by 見登之 (Jiàndēngzhī, 集 / compiled)
About the work
This 1-fascicle text by 見登之 Jiàndēngzhī is a Korean Hwaeom-school treatise on the doctrine of chéng fó 成佛 (“becoming a Buddha”) — the question of how, when, and on what conditions the bodhisattva attains Buddhahood — within the yī chéng (one-vehicle) doctrinal framework of the Avataṃsaka. The doctrine of Buddhahood-attainment is one of the central concerns of mature Mahāyāna soteriology, and the Huáyán-school’s distinctive one-vehicle configuration of it — that the bodhisattva attains Buddhahood through the dharma-realm’s mutual interpenetration — is the work’s central theme.
Prefaces
No formal preface.
Abstract
The work belongs to the broad late-Silla period (700 – 935 CE bracket adopted here). The doctrinal substance — the conditions and nature of Buddhahood-attainment within the Huáyán yī chéng framework — engages with topics that had been central to mature Tang Huáyán-school doctrine ([[KR6e0074|Fǎzàng’s Wǔ jiào zhāng]], etc.) and that Korean Hwaeom continued to develop independently.
The Taishō text (T1890) is established on the standard apparatus, including the yuán 原 (original-block) witness.
Translations and research
- No substantial Western-language translation located.
- Buswell, Robert E., Jr. The Korean Approach to Zen (1983).
- Hamar, Imre, ed. Reflecting Mirrors (2007).
Other points of interest
- Catalog meta lists the author as Silla; DILA A000543 lists him as Tang; this discrepancy reflects the difficulty of distinguishing Korean from Chinese authors in some early Tang Buddhist works.