Fó shuō ā shé shì wáng nǚ ā shù dá pútísà jīng 佛說阿闍貰王女阿術達菩薩經
The Sūtra Spoken by the Buddha on the Bodhisattva-Girl Aśokadattā, Daughter of King Ajātaśatru by 竺法護 (Zhú Fǎhù / Dharmarakṣa, 譯)
About the work
This 1-fascicle text by 竺法護 Zhú Fǎhù is the Aśokadattā-vyākaraṇa — the Mahāyāna sūtra featuring the bodhisattva-girl Āshùdá 阿術達 (Aśokadattā), daughter of King Ajātaśatru of Magadha. Like the Sumati sūtra and other female-protagonist Mahāyāna sūtras, it is an important source for early Mahāyāna doctrinal-literary engagement with female religious subjectivity.
Prefaces
No formal preface.
Abstract
The translation belongs to 竺法護 Zhú Fǎhù’s Cháng’ān period (266 – 313 CE).
The Taishō text (T0337) is established on the standard apparatus.
Translations and research
- Paul, Diana Y. Women in Buddhism (1979) — substantial discussion.
Links
- CBETA T12n0337
- Kanseki DB
- 竺法護 DILA
- Dazangthings date evidence (186, 245, 250, 300) — Bokenkamp, Stephen R. “The Viśvantara-jātaka in Buddhist and Daoist Translation.” In Daoism in History: Essays in Honour of Liu Ts’un-yan, edited by Benjamin Penny, 56-73. London: Routledge, 2006. 73 n. 31.