A triad of texts from fifth-century Southern China: the *Mahāmāyā-sūtra, the Guoqu xianzai yinguo jing, and a Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra Ascribed to Faxian
In previous work, I have shown that the (Mainstream, smaller) Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra ascribed to Faxian is in fact almost certainly not his work, and that internal evidence closely associates it with two other texts: the Guoqu xianzai yinguo jing ascribed to Guṇabhadra and the *Mahāmāyā-sū...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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[2018]
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Journal of Chinese religions
Year: 2018, Volume: 46, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-41 |
| ISSN: | 2050-8999 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/0737769X.2018.1435370 |
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| Online Access: | Verlag, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1080/0737769X.2018.1435370
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| Author Notes: | Michael Radich |
| Summary: | In previous work, I have shown that the (Mainstream, smaller) Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra ascribed to Faxian is in fact almost certainly not his work, and that internal evidence closely associates it with two other texts: the Guoqu xianzai yinguo jing ascribed to Guṇabhadra and the *Mahāmāyā-sūtra ascribed to Tanjing. This paper analyzes the content of these texts, in order to ascertain (as much as possible) their likely relation to one another; the context in which they were composed; and their relations to that context. In addressing questions of context, the analysis applies innovative computer-assisted methods, which allow us to pinpoint detailed clues of highly specific intertextual relationships among a broad range of texts. This enables us to discover in the present triad of texts internal evidence pointing to close relations to a very specific body of literature in the fifth century. |
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| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 2050-8999 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/0737769X.2018.1435370 |