Fó miè dù hòu guān liǎn zàng sòng jīng 佛滅度後棺斂葬送經
The Sūtra on the Coffin, Cremation, and Funeral After the Buddha’s Parinirvāṇa by anonymous translator
About the work
This 1-fascicle anonymous text treats the funerary arrangements for the Buddha after his parinirvāṇa — the placement in the coffin, the cremation, and the funeral procession. Together with 竺法護 Zhú Fǎhù’s Bān ní huán hòu guàn là jīng 般泥洹後灌臘經 (KR6g0036, T0391) it is part of the post-Niè-pán ritual-narrative cycle of Chinese Buddhist texts.
Abstract
The bracket adopted here (350–600) reflects the broad pre-Táng period during which the work was likely composed.
Translations and research
- Nattier, Jan. “The ‘Missing Majority’: Dao’an’s Anonymous Scriptures Revisited.” In Chinese Buddhism and the Scholarship of Erik Zürcher, edited by Jonathan Silk and Stefano Zacchetti, 94–140. Leiden: Brill, 2023.