Gēnběn shuōyīqiēyǒubù pínàiyē záshì 根本說一切有部毘奈耶雜事
The Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya: Kṣudraka-vastu (Miscellany) by 義淨 (Yìjìng, 譯)
About the work
The forty-fascicle Chinese translation of the Kṣudraka-vastu 雜事 — the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya skandhaka of miscellaneous matters. 雜 zá “miscellaneous” translates kṣudraka “small/various”. Translated by Yìjìng (義淨) at Cháng’ān in the early 8th century. This is the largest of the eighteen Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya texts translated by Yìjìng.
Prefaces
Translator’s colophon: 大唐三藏義淨奉制譯.
Abstract
The Kṣudraka-vastu is the catch-all Vinaya skandhaka of small regulations, supplementary procedures, and avadāna narratives that did not fit in the principal vastus. Its scope is correspondingly enormous: forty fascicles of monastic minutiae (begging-bowl etiquette, robe-folding, sandal-care, washing procedures, hair-cutting), procedural supplements, biographical-doctrinal narratives, and anecdotal accounts of the Buddha’s disciples. Substantial portions correspond to the Sanskrit Kṣudrakavastu preserved in the Gilgit manuscripts and to the Tibetan Phran-tshegs-kyi gźi. The text contains some of the most important Mūlasarvāstivāda Buddha-biographical narratives, including the famous first canon council narrative at Rājagṛha (j. 39–40) — a recension that diverges substantively from the parallel accounts in the other Vinayas.
Translations and research
- Schopen, Gregory. Buddhist Monks and Business Matters; Buddhist Nuns, Monks, and Other Worldly Matters. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2004, 2014. — Substantial use throughout.
- Yao Fumi 八尾史. Konponsetsu issaiubu ritsu zōji no kenkyū 根本説一切有部律雜事の研究. Tokyo: Sankibō, 2013.
- Panglung, Jampa Losang. Die Erzählstoffe des Mūlasarvāstivāda-vinaya. Tokyo, 1981.
Links
- CBETA T24n1451
- 義淨 DILA
- Dazangthings date evidence (705): [ T ] 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. (source)
- Kanseki DB