Fó shuō rú huàn sānmèi jīng 佛說如幻三昧經
The Sūtra Spoken by the Buddha on the Illusion-Like Samādhi by 竺法護 (Zhú Fǎhù / Dharmarakṣa, 譯)
About the work
This 2-fascicle text by 竺法護 Zhú Fǎhù is the Māyopamasamādhisūtra — the Mahāyāna sūtra on the rú huàn sānmèi 如幻三昧 (“illusion-like samādhi”), one of the foundational Mahāyāna meditative states focusing on the illusory nature of phenomena.
Prefaces
No formal preface.
Abstract
The translation belongs to 竺法護 Zhú Fǎhù’s Cháng’ān period (266 – 313 CE). The Taishō text (T0342) is established on a particularly rich apparatus.
Translations and research
- No substantial Western-language translation located.
- Régamey, Konstanty. Three Chapters from the Samādhirājasūtra (1938) — for context on Mahāyāna samādhi-sūtras.
Links
- CBETA T12n0342
- Kanseki DB
- 竺法護 DILA
- Dazangthings date evidence (300, 303, 373) — Kawano Satoshi 河野訓. Shoki kan’yaku butten no kenkyū: Jiku Hōgo o chūshin to shite 初期漢訳仏典の研究 : 竺法護を中心として. Ise: Kōgakkan Daigaku Shuppanbu, 2006. 73-92, esp. Table 2, 75-77.