Sìfēn jièběn shū 四分戒本疏 卷第一．第二．第三
Commentary on the Sìfēn Prātimokṣa, Fascicles 1–3 (Dunhuang fragments) (author unknown)
About the work
Three fascicles of an anonymous Tang-period commentary on the Sìfēn prātimokṣa, preserved in Dunhuang manuscript form and included in volume 85 of the Taishō Gǔyìbù 古逸部.
Prefaces
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Abstract
The Dunhuang library cave preserved numerous Tang-period commentary fragments on the Sìfēn lǜ and its prātimokṣa — testimony to the active Vinaya scholarship at Dunhuang and other northwestern Chinese Buddhist centres in the late-Tang period. This three-fascicle fragment is one such commentary, complementing the major canonical commentaries (道宣 Dàoxuān, 懷素 Huáisù, 定賓 Dìng Bīn) and providing evidence for the diversity of Sìfēn exegetical traditions in mid-late Tang Buddhism. KR6k0134–0142 are similar Dunhuang Vinaya commentary fragments.
Translations and research
- Giles, Lionel. Descriptive Catalogue of the Chinese Manuscripts from Tunhuang. London, 1957.
- Soymié, Michel (ed.). Catalogue des manuscrits chinois de Touen-houang. Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient, various.