Dàshèng tóngxìng jīng 大乘同性經
Sūtra on the Same Nature of the Mahāyāna (Skt. Mahāyānābhisamayasūtra) translated by 闍那耶舍 (Shénàyéshě / Jñānayaśa, 譯)
About the work
T673 in two fascicles is one of the late northern-dynasties tathāgatagarbha / Buddha-body sūtras, transmitted into Chinese by 闍那耶舍 of the Northern Zhōu (Yǔwén family 宇文氏). The alternate title Yīqiē fóxíng rùzhì pílúzhēnàzàng shuō jīng 一切佛行入智毘盧遮那藏說經 (preserved in the colophon of the source file, “Sūtra Spoken by [the Buddha as] Vairocana-storehouse on the Entry of All-Buddha-Practice into Wisdom”) makes the doctrinal frame explicit: this is a Buddha-body sūtra cast as a Mahāyāna-abhisamaya (the same-nature realisation), with the Buddha understood as Vairocana 毘盧遮那.
Abstract
The translation is unanimously ascribed to 闍那耶舍 (Jñānayaśa) on the basis of the Lìdài sānbǎo jì and the Xù gāosēng zhuàn (T2060). Date bracket follows the documented Northern Zhōu translation activity of 闍那耶舍 under the patronage of Yǔwén Hù 宇文護 (564–572). The catalog dynasty 宇文周 specifies the Yǔwén-family Zhōu (= Northern Zhōu, 557–581).
T673 was retranslated in the early Táng by 地婆訶羅 (Divākara, 614–688) as the [[KR6i0331|Zhèngqì dàshèng jīng 證契大乘經]] (T674) — the second Chinese rendering of the same Indic original, completed during Divākara’s Cháng’ān period (676–688). T673 and T674 are short doctrinal vyākaraṇa-type sūtras in which the Buddha articulates the tathāgatagarbha / Buddha-body programme through dialogue rather than narrative; they are doctrinally cognate with T666, T668, and T669.
Related canonical texts: KR6i0331 (證契大乘經 / T674), the Tang retranslation by 地婆訶羅.
Translations and research
- Takasaki Jikidō 高崎直道. Nyoraizō shisō no keisei. Tokyo: Shunjūsha, 1974. The standard study of the Northern-Wèi / Northern-Zhōu tathāgatagarbha literature.
- Funayama Tōru 船山徹. “Hokushū-Sui no yakukyō” 北周隋の訳経. Tōhō gakuhō 75 (2003).
No book-length English translation located.
Links
- CBETA
- Kanseki DB
- Dazangthings date evidence (572): CBETA, Taishō shinshū daizōkyō 大正新脩大藏經, ed. Takakusu Junjirō 高楠順次郎 and Watanabe Kaigyoku 渡邊海旭. Tokyo, 1924–1932. CBReader v 5.0, 2014. dazangthings