Lǜchāo dìsān juǎn shǒujué 律抄第三卷手決

Hand-Resolved Notes on the Third Fascicle of the Vinaya Excerpts (Dunhuang) (author unknown)

About the work

A one-fascicle Dunhuang fragment of “hand-resolved notes” (手決 shǒujué = oral-instruction notes recorded in writing) on the third fascicle of an unidentified Vinaya excerpts-collection.

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Abstract

The shǒujué genre — formal oral teaching recorded in writing — is an important late-Tang monastic-pedagogical genre. This fragment preserves the working oral instruction of an unidentified Dunhuang Vinaya master on the practical application of selected Vinaya excerpts.