Guǎngdà fāyuàn sòng 廣大發願頌
Verses on the Vast and Great Generation of [Bodhisattva] Vows by 龍樹菩薩 (Lóngshù / Nāgārjuna, attributed; 造) and 施護 (Shīhù / Dānapāla, et al., 等譯)
About the work
A one-juǎn Northern-Sòng translation of an Indian stotra attributed to Nāgārjuna, on the great vows of the bodhisattva. Translated by 施護 Shīhù (Dānapāla) and his colleagues at the Sòng Institute. Often grouped with KR6o0130 Zàn fǎjiè sòng as part of the same Indic stotra-corpus.
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Abstract
The Guǎng-dà fā-yuàn sòng is one of the lesser-studied of the Sòng Institute’s translations of Indic stotras. The Indian original (whose Sanskrit title is uncertain — possibly Mahāpraṇidhāna-stotra or Bodhicittotpādastotra) is otherwise unknown; no Tibetan parallel has been identified. The text is a series of devotional verses on the bodhisattva’s generation of bodhicitta and the vast vows accompanying it.
The translation date is bracketed by Shīhù’s Institute career, 982–1017. The Taishō uses 金臧廣勝寺本 as base.
Translations and research
- No substantial secondary literature located on this specific text.
- Sen, Tansen. Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade: The Realignment of Sino-Indian Relations, 600–1400. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2003. — Background on the Sòng-Indian Buddhist exchange.
- Jan Yün-hua. “Buddhist Translation Activity in the Northern Sung.” History of Religions 6 (1966).
Other points of interest
The grouping of multiple stotras attributed to Nāgārjuna (KR6o0130, KR6o0131) translated by Shīhù in close textual proximity within Taishō Vol. 32 reflects the late Indian compilation history of the Catuḥstava and related stotra-cycles, in which loosely affiliated devotional texts circulated together under Nāgārjuna’s name.
Links
- CBETA
- DILA Authority (Shīhù): A000844
- Dazangthings date evidence (1000): [ T ] T = CBETA [Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association]. Taishō shinshū daizōkyō 大正新脩大藏經. Edited by Takakusu Junjirō 高楠順次郎 and Watanabe Kaigyoku 渡邊海旭. Tokyo: Taishō shinshū daizōkyō kankōkai/Daizō shuppan, 1924-1932. CBReader v 5.0, 2014. https://dazangthings.nz/cbc/source/1/