Fó shuō fódǐng zūnshèng tuóluóní jīng 佛說佛頂尊勝陀羅尼經
Sūtra of the Buddha’s Speaking of the Buddha-Crown Victorious Dhāraṇī (Yìjìng recension) by 義淨 Yìjìng (譯)
About the work
A one-fascicle Yìjìng-recension translation of the Uṣṇīṣa-vijaya-dhāraṇī-sūtra, the fifth and final principal Táng translation. Yìjìng (義淨, 635–713) — the great Táng Buddhist pilgrim and translator (best known for his pilgrimage to India 671–695 and his subsequent translation programme of vinaya and Yogācāra texts) — produced this translation late in his career, after his return from India.
Abstract
Yìjìng’s translation provides a fifth Táng Chinese witness to the Uṣṇīṣa-vijaya-dhāraṇī-sūtra, alongside Buddhapāli’s T967, Dù Xíngyǐ’s T968, and Divākara’s T969 / T970. The five parallel translations document the intense Táng interest in this dhāraṇī; together they offer a comparative philological resource for reconstructing the underlying Sanskrit text and its variants.
The translation dates from Yìjìng’s late Cháng’ān period (700–712).
Translations and research
- Copp, Paul. The Body Incantatory. New York: Columbia UP, 2014.