Fó shuō xū mó tí pútísà jīng 佛說須摩提菩薩經 (Zhú Fǎhù)
The Sūtra Spoken by the Buddha on the Bodhisattva Sumati by 竺法護 (Zhú Fǎhù / Dharmarakṣa, 譯)
About the work
This 1-fascicle text by 竺法護 Zhú Fǎhù is the Sumati-paripṛcchā — the Mahāyāna sūtra on the bodhisattva-girl Sumati (須摩提, “Good-Mind”). The work has parallel translations: Kumārajīva’s T0335 and Bodhiruci’s T0336. The work was incorporated into the [[KR6f0001|Mahā-ratnakūṭa]] tradition.
Prefaces
No formal preface.
Abstract
The translation belongs to 竺法護 Zhú Fǎhù’s Cháng’ān period (266 – 313 CE). The doctrinal substance — the Sumati narrative — is one of the principal Mahāyāna sūtras featuring a female bodhisattva-protagonist, and is therefore important for the study of gender in early Mahāyāna literature.
The Taishō text (T0334) is established on the standard apparatus.
Translations and research
- No substantial Western-language translation located.
- Paul, Diana Y. Women in Buddhism: Images of the Feminine in the Mahāyāna Tradition. Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press, 1979 — for context.
Links
- CBETA T12n0334
- Kanseki DB
- 竺法護 DILA
- Dazangthings date evidence (300) — Kanakura Enshō 金倉円照. “Sumadai bosatsu kyō ni tsuite 須摩提菩薩経について.” Ōsaki gakuhō 大崎学報 115-116 (1971): 223-248.