Fóshuō Chánxíng sānshíqī pǐn jīng 佛說禪行三十七品經
Sūtra of the Thirty-Seven Factors of Meditation Practice attributed to 安世高 (Ān Shìgāo, 譯)
About the work
The Fóshuō Chánxíng sānshíqī pǐn jīng (T604) is a one-fascicle short sūtra-text on the thirty-seven bodhipakṣya-dharmas (the 37 limbs of awakening) framed as items of chánxíng 禪行 (“meditation practice”), traditionally attributed to Ān Shìgāo 安世高 (安世高).
Prefaces
The text opens with the canonical formula.
Abstract
A short exposition of the standard early-Buddhist scheme of the 37 bodhipakṣya-dharmas (4 smṛtyupasthāna, 4 samyakprahāṇa, 4 ṛddhipāda, 5 indriya, 5 bala, 7 bodhyaṅga, 8-fold mārga). Traditional ascription to Ān Shìgāo gives the bracket of his Luòyáng activity (148–170 CE). Modern scholarship (Nattier 2008) classes the text among the “uncertain” Ān Shìgāo attributions; the conservative bracket is retained here.
Translations and research
- Nattier, Jan. A Guide to the Earliest Chinese Buddhist Translations. Tokyo: IRIAB, 2008.
- Gethin, Rupert. The Buddhist Path to Awakening. Oxford, 2001 — bodhipakṣya-dharma in early Buddhism.
Links
- CBETA T15n0604
- Kanseki DB
- 安世高 DILA
- Dazangthings date evidence (160) — 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.