Fóshuō Zhǎngzhě Fǎzhì qī jīng 佛說長者法志妻經
Sūtra of the Wife of Elder Fǎzhì (translator unknown)
About the work
The Fóshuō Zhǎngzhě Fǎzhì qī jīng (T572) is a one-fascicle short sūtra of unknown translation attribution. The protagonist is the wife of the elder Fǎzhì 法志 (*Dharmaprasāda or similar). CANWWW alt. title 法志妻經.
Prefaces
The text opens with the canonical formula. No translator attribution survives.
Abstract
A short Mahāyāna avadāna in the wise-women cluster (alongside T567–T571). The catalog assigns no dynasty; the text is anonymous and listed among the Eastern Jìn shīyì corpus by Chū sānzàng jì jí (T2145), whence the conservative bracket of 317–420 CE used here.
Translations and research
Reminder: AI generated list - beware of hallucinations. Corrections and additions welcome
- Paul, Diana Y. Women in Buddhism. Berkeley, 1979.
- No further substantial secondary literature located.
Links
- CBETA T14n0572
- Kanseki DB
- Dazangthings date evidence (430) — 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.