Chāmópódì shòujì jīng 差摩婆帝授記經
Prediction (Vyākaraṇa) Sūtra for Queen Kṣemavatī translated by 菩提流支 (Pútíliúzhī / Bodhiruci I, 譯)
About the work
The Chāmópódì shòujì jīng (T573, Kṣemavatī-vyākaraṇa-sūtra) is a one-fascicle Mahāyāna prediction sūtra translated by Bodhiruci I 菩提流支 (菩提流支) at the Northern Wèi 元魏 capital Luòyáng. The protagonist Chāmópódì 差摩婆帝 is a transcription of Kṣemavatī, the chief queen of King Bimbisāra, who receives a vyākaraṇa (prophecy) of future buddhahood. CANWWW gives Sanskrit Kṣemavatīvyākaraṇa(sūtra) and alternate title 差摩波帝受記經.
Prefaces
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Abstract
A short vyākaraṇa sūtra centered on a royal woman, transmitted in the Northern Wèi-period translation cluster of Bodhiruci I (active in Luòyáng ca. 508–535). The bracket adopted here matches Bodhiruci’s documented activity span from his arrival in the year of Yǒngpíng 1 (508) until the late Wèi period.
Translations and research
- Paul, Diana Y. Women in Buddhism. Berkeley, 1979.
- Lamotte, Étienne. Histoire du bouddhisme indien. Louvain, 1958, on vyākaraṇa literature.
Links
- CBETA T14n0573
- Kanseki DB
- 菩提流支 DILA
- Dazangthings date evidence (520, 530) — 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.