Fóshuō Módēng nǚ jiěxíng zhōng liùshì jīng 佛說摩登女解形中六事經
Sūtra of the Mātaṅga Woman Resolving Six Matters in the Body (translator unknown)
About the work
The Fóshuō Módēng nǚ jiěxíng zhōng liùshì jīng (T552) is a one-fascicle anonymous short sūtra parallel to KR6i0182 (T551) by Ān Shìgāo. The two preserve different recensions of the same Mātaṅga narrative.
Prefaces
The text opens with the canonical formula. There is no surviving translator attribution.
Abstract
A parallel recension to KR6i0182. The “six matters in the body” of the title refers to a Buddhist contemplative analysis of the body’s constituents that the Buddha uses to redirect the Mātaṅga woman’s attachment to Ānanda’s body. Standard pre-Sui anonymous shīyì attribution.
Translations and research
- Faure, Bernard. The Power of Denial. Princeton, 2003.
Links
- CBETA T14n0552
- Kanseki DB
- Dazangthings date evidence (420) — T = CBETA [Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association]. Taishō shinshū daizōkyō 大正新脩大藏經. Edited by Takakusu Junjirō 高楠順次郎 and Watanabe Kaigyoku 渡邊海旭. Tokyo: Taishō shinshū daizōkyō kankōkai/Daizō shuppan, 1924-1932. CBReader v 5.0, 2014.