Fó wèi Suōjiāluó lóngwáng suǒshuō dàshèng jīng 佛為娑伽羅龍王所說大乘經
Mahāyāna Sūtra Expounded by the Buddha to the Nāga King Sāgara translated by 施護 (Shīhù / Dānapāla, 譯)
About the work
This one-fascicle Mahāyāna sūtra (T601) is Dānapāla’s 施護 (施護) Northern Song translation of a late expansion of the Sāgara-nāgarāja-paripṛcchā cycle. Suōjiāluó 娑伽羅 is the standard Song-period transcription of Sāgara.
Prefaces
The text opens with the canonical formula.
Abstract
A short Northern-Song Mahāyāna sūtra — bodhisattva-path doctrine framed as instruction to the Sea-Nāga king Sāgara — datable to Dānapāla’s translation activity at the imperial Yìjīng-yuàn / Chuán-fǎ-yuàn (980–1017 CE). The text supplements the older Dharmarakṣa version KR6i0232 Hǎi-lóngwáng jīng (T598) and the Yìjìng excerpt KR6i0233 Fǎyìn jīng (T599).
Translations and research
- Sen, Tansen. Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade. Honolulu, 2003.
- No dedicated study of T601 located.
Links
- CBETA T15n0601
- Kanseki DB
- 施護 DILA
- Dazangthings date evidence (1000) — 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.