Lǜ záchāo 律雜抄
Miscellaneous Vinaya Excerpts (Dunhuang fragment) (author unknown)
About the work
A one-fascicle anonymous miscellaneous Vinaya excerpts-collection, preserved in Dunhuang. 雜抄 záchāo “miscellaneous excerpts” indicates the genre — a compilation of selected Vinaya passages on various topics.
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Abstract
The text is one of the Dunhuang Vinaya manuscript fragments in Taishō volume 85, presenting a working monastic compilation of selected Vinaya passages on various practical-disciplinary points. Such miscellanies were typical of monastic-pedagogical use in late-Tang Buddhist communities.