Pínì xīn 毘尼心
The Heart of the Vinaya (Dunhuang) (author unknown)
About the work
A one-fascicle Dunhuang fragment titled Pínì xīn “Heart of the Vinaya” — a synoptic-essential exposition of Vinaya doctrine.
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Abstract
The “heart” (心 xīn) genre — distillations of the essential meaning of a doctrinal corpus — was popular in late-Tang Chinese Buddhism. This Vinaya xīn presents the essential content of monastic discipline in compressed form for instructional use. As a Dunhuang manuscript, it preserves a working text from the late-Tang Dunhuang Buddhist communities.