Fó shuō fāng děng bān ní huán jīng 佛說方等般泥洹經
The Vaipulya Sūtra of the Buddha’s Parinirvāṇa by 竺法護 (Zhú Fǎhù, 譯)
About the work
This 2-fascicle proto-Mahāyāna Niè-pán text by 竺法護 Zhú Fǎhù is one of the earliest Chinese versions of the Pre-Niè-pán / Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa tradition.
Abstract
The translation belongs to Zhú Fǎhù’s Cháng’ān period (266–313 CE).
Translations and research
- Boucher, Daniel. “Buddhist Translation Procedures in Third-Century China: A Study of Dharmarakṣa and his Translation Idiom.” PhD dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1996.