Fó shuō Dàshèng jiè jīng 佛說大乘戒經
The Mahāyāna Precept Sūtra by 施護 (Dānapāla, 譯)
About the work
A one-fascicle Sòng-period translation of an Indian Mahāyāna precept sūtra by Dānapāla 施護 (施護) at the imperial Yìjīngyuàn 譯經院, late 10th to early 11th century.
Prefaces
Translator’s colophon: 宋西天三藏施護奉詔譯.
Abstract
The text is one of the late-Sòng bodhisattva-vinaya translations from the Northern Sòng imperial translation project, recovering Indian Mahāyāna precept material absent from the older Chinese canon. Like the parallel Mūlasarvāstivāda translations of Yìjìng (KR6k0023–0040), these Sòng translations arrived too late to displace the established canonical literature, but they preserve significant Indian doctrinal-disciplinary material.