Chányào jīng 禪要經
Sūtra on the Essentials of Meditation (translator unknown)
About the work
The Chányào jīng (T609) is a one-fascicle anonymous meditation manual in sūtra form, transmitting a small set of meditation methods (most prominently the contemplation of impurity, aśubha-bhāvanā, and counting of breaths).
Prefaces
No translator preface or attribution survives.
Abstract
A brief anonymous chán-text in the early-medieval Chinese Sarvāstivāda meditation tradition. Catalog assignment is to the post-Han / pre-Tang anonymous corpus; the conservative bracket of 317–600 CE follows the standard shīyì horizon.
Translations and research
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