Fóshuō Nèishēnguān zhāngjù jīng 佛說內身觀章句經

Sūtra of Verses on Inner Body-Contemplation (translator unknown)

About the work

The Fóshuō Nèishēn-guān zhāngjù jīng (T610) is a one-fascicle anonymous text on the contemplation of the body (kāyānupaśyanā / aśubha-bhāvanā), in zhāngjù 章句 (verse-stanza) form.

Prefaces

No translator preface survives.

Abstract

A short anonymous meditation text consisting of mnemonic verses on body-contemplation, addressing the constituent impurities of the body in the standard aśubha enumeration. Catalogue assignment is to the post-Han / pre-Tang anonymous shīyì corpus, hence the conservative bracket of 317–600 CE.

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