Qiānzhuǎn dàmíng tuóluóní jīng 千轉大明陀羅尼經
Sūtra of the Thousand-Turning Great Vidyā Dhāraṇī by 施護 (Dānapāla, 譯)
About the work
A one-fascicle Northern-Sòng re-translation by Dānapāla (施護) of the thousand-turning Avalokiteśvara dhāraṇī tradition that Zhìtōng 智通 had translated in 653 (KR6j0233 T1035). Dānapāla’s version is conducted from a freshly-imported Sanskrit manuscript at the Northern-Sòng Yìjīng yuàn 譯經院 and represents a recension distinct from Zhìtōng’s earlier translation.
Abstract
Dānapāla’s late-tenth / early-eleventh-century translation of the Qiānzhuǎn dàmíng tuóluóní updates the Tang-period vocabulary of KR6j0233 to the Northern-Sòng standard transliteration norms (which by the late tenth century used Siddham Sanskrit script and a more philologically-precise fǎnqiè phonetic apparatus). The two recensions — Zhìtōng (Tang, 653) and Dānapāla (Sòng, ca. 990) — together document the centuries-long evolution of the Qiānzhuǎn dhāraṇī tradition in Chinese transmission.
Translations and research
- Hidas, Gergely. Powers of Protection. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021.
- Sen, Tansen. Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2003.
Links
- CBETA T20n1036
- Kanseki DB
- 施護 DILA
- Dazangthings date evidence (1000) — T = CBETA [Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association]. Taishō shinshū daizōkyō 大正新脩大藏經. Edited by Takakusu Junjirō 高楠順次郎 and Watanabe Kaigyoku 渡邊海旭. Tokyo: Taishō shinshū daizōkyō kankōkai/Daizō shuppan, 1924-1932. CBReader v 5.0, 2014.