Fànmǎrìluódūdǔ sījì 梵m日羅駄覩私記
Private Notes on the [Sanskrit] Vajradhātu (Jp. Bon Bazara dato shiki) by 眞興 (Shinkō, 撰)
About the work
A one-fascicle private-notes commentary by Shinkō 眞興 (眞興, 935–1004) on the Vajradhātu (Mǎrìluódūdǔ 摩日羅駄覩 = Sanskrit Vajradhātu in transliteration). The title’s “梵 m” indicates a Sanskrit bīja-letter notation; the OCR rendering appears garbled in the printed Taishō. The work is a scholastic commentary on the Vajradhātu doctrinal apparatus, paralleling Shinkō’s commentary on the Garbhadhātu side (KR6j0011, T61n2231).
Abstract
The Sījì is a private-notes scholastic commentary on the Vajradhātu material, particularly the Sarvatathāgatatattvasaṃgraha and Vajraśekhara tradition (KR6j0024 and parallels). Like Shinkō’s parallel work on the Garbhadhātu (KR6j0011), this text exemplifies the late-10th-century Heian intellectual environment in which Hossō (Yogācāra)-trained scholars produced systematic doctrinal commentaries on Esoteric ritual-doctrinal texts.
The text’s title — with the unusual transliteration Mǎrìluódūdǔ for Vajradhātu (where the standard Chinese would be 金剛界 Jīngāngjiè or 跋日羅駄都 Bárìluódūdǔ) — suggests Shinkō’s particular interest in the Sanskrit-transliteration technical vocabulary of the Vajradhātu tradition, a hallmark of his scholarly method.
The composition dates from Shinkō’s mature Kōfuku-ji period (ca. 960–1004).
Translations and research
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