Sìbù lǜ bìng lùn yàoyòng chāo 四部律并論要用抄
Practical Excerpts from the Four Vinayas and Treatises (Dunhuang) (author unknown)
About the work
A two-fascicle Dunhuang excerpts-compilation drawing on the four canonical Chinese Vinayas (四部律 sìbù lǜ = Sìfēn, Wǔfēn, Sēngqí, Shísòng) plus the associated Vinaya treatises (論 lùn). The most ambitious of the Dunhuang Vinaya excerpts-compilations.
Prefaces
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Abstract
The text is a substantial cross-Vinaya practical reference, drawing on all four canonical Chinese Vinayas plus the vinaya-vibhāṣā commentary tradition. The two fascicles testify to the depth of Vinaya scholarship at Dunhuang and provide important evidence for the active comparative-Vinaya tradition in northwestern Tang Buddhist communities.
Translations and research
- Hirakawa Akira 平川彰. Ritsuzō no kenkyū. Tokyo, 1960. — Discusses the Dunhuang Vinaya manuscripts.