Fó shuō qīngjìng pínàiyē zuìshàng dàshèng jīng 佛說清淨毘奈耶最上大乘經
The Mahāyāna Sūtra of the Supreme Pure Vinaya by 智吉祥 (Zhì Jíxiáng, 等譯)
About the work
A two-fascicle Sòng-period Mahāyāna vinaya sūtra, translated by Zhì Jíxiáng 智吉祥 (智吉祥). Preserved in the Jīn Edition 金藏 (the Sòng-period Jīn-dynasty 金 stone-canon), one of the alternative Sòng/Jīn-period Buddhist canons.
Prefaces
Translator’s colophon: 宋智吉祥等譯.
Abstract
The text is a Mahāyāna sūtra on the bodhisattva-vinaya in its “supreme” Mahāyāna form, translated in the late Northern Sòng. Its preservation in the Jīn Edition rather than in the Taishō reflects the alternate manuscript-stream traditions that supplemented the dominant transmission. The Jīn 金 (Jurchen) canon, engraved 1148–1173 at Xièzhōu 解州 in present-day Shanxi, preserves a number of texts not in the standard Buddhist canon.
Translations and research
- Zacchetti, Stefano. In Praise of the Light: A Critical Synoptic Edition with an Annotated Translation of Chapters 1–3 of Dharmarakṣa’s Guang zan jing 光讚經. Tokyo: International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, 2005. — On Sòng-Jīn canonical traditions.