Fó shuō dāng lái biàn jīng 佛說當來變經
The Sūtra Spoken by the Buddha on the Coming Changes by 竺法護 (Zhú Fǎhù, 譯)
About the work
This 1-fascicle text by 竺法護 Zhú Fǎhù is a mò fǎ-genre (decline-of-Dharma) sūtra prophesying the changes (biàn 變) that will come in the latter days of the Dharma. The work is one of the foundational mò fǎ texts in the Chinese canon.
Abstract
The translation belongs to Zhú Fǎhù’s Cháng’ān period (266–313 CE).
Translations and research
- Nattier, Jan. Once Upon a Future Time (1991) — substantial discussion of the Chinese mò fǎ-tradition.