Bùsīyì guāng púsà suǒshuō jīng 不思議光菩薩所說經
Sūtra Spoken by the Bodhisattva Inconceivable Light translated by 鳩摩羅什 Kumārajīva (譯)
About the work
The Bùsīyì guāng púsà suǒshuō jīng (T484) is a one-fascicle Mahāyāna sūtra translated by 鳩摩羅什 Kumārajīva at Cháng’ān. The protagonist is the bodhisattva Bùsīyì guāng 不思議光 (“Inconceivable Light”; Sanskrit Acintyaprabhāsa).
Prefaces
The text opens with rúshì wǒwén. The colophon attributes the translation to Kumārajīva.
Abstract
This is a short Mahāyāna text on the bodhisattva Acintyaprabhāsa’s exposition of the perfections (pāramitā) and the bodhisattva path. The translation falls within Kumārajīva’s Cháng’ān productivity (402–413 CE).
Translations and research
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