Wúsuǒyǒu púsà jīng 無所有菩薩經
Sūtra of the Bodhisattva Possessing-Nothing translated by 闍那崛多 Jñānagupta et al. (等譯)
About the work
The Wúsuǒyǒu púsà jīng (T485) is a four-fascicle Mahāyāna sūtra translated under the team-leadership of 闍那崛多 Jñānagupta at the Sui imperial translation institute. The protagonist’s name Wúsuǒyǒu 無所有 (“Possessing-Nothing”; Sanskrit Akiñcanya) signifies the bodhisattva’s perfect emptiness — the doctrinal kernel of the text.
Prefaces
The text opens with rúshì wǒwén. The colophon includes the děngyì 等譯 (“translated by [Jñānagupta] and others”) notation, indicating a team translation.
Abstract
This sūtra develops the doctrine of akiñcanya (possessing-nothing / nothingness) — one of the standard Buddhist meditative attainments derived from the brahmavihāras — into a Mahāyāna bodhisattva-doctrine of complete non-attachment. The four-fascicle structure permits an extended doctrinal exposition. The translation falls within Jñānagupta’s Sui productive period (591–600 CE).
Translations and research
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