Fó shuō ā mí tuó sān yē sān fó sà lóu fó tán guò dù rén dào jīng 佛說阿彌陀三耶三佛薩樓佛檀過度人道經
The Sūtra Spoken by the Buddha on Amitābha Samyak-saṃbuddha Surpassing-the-Path-of-Beings by 支謙 (Zhī Qiān, 譯)
About the work
This 2-fascicle text by 支謙 Zhī Qiān is the second early Chinese version of the Sukhāvatī-vyūha-sūtra, after Lokakṣema’s T0361 but before the canonical T0360. The unusually long, transcription-heavy title preserves much of the Sanskrit original phonologically and is characteristic of the early-Three-Kingdoms transcription style.
Prefaces
No formal preface.
Abstract
The translation belongs to 支謙 Zhī Qiān’s Wú-period activity (222 – 253 CE).
The Taishō text (T0362) is established on the standard apparatus.
Translations and research
- Inagaki, Hisao, tr. The Three Pure Land Sutras (1995).
- Gómez, Luis O., tr. The Land of Bliss (1996).
- Nattier, Jan. A Guide to the Earliest Chinese Buddhist Translations (2008).