A triad of texts from fifth-century Southern China

• Verfasst von: Radich, Michael [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: A triad of texts from fifth-century Southern China
• Titelzusatz: the *Mahāmāyā-sūtra, the Guoqu xianzai yinguo jing, and a Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra Ascribed to Faxian
• Verf.angabe: Michael Radich
• E-Jahr: 2018
• Jahr: [2018]
• Umfang: 41 S.
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Journal of Chinese religions
• Ort Quelle: Baltimore, Md : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982
• Jahr Quelle: 2018
• Band/Heft Quelle: 46(2018), 1, Seite 1-41
• ISSN Quelle: 2050-8999
• DOI: doi:10.1080/0737769X.2018.1435370
• Schlagwörter: (g)China <Süd> / (s)Buddhistische Literatur / (z)Geschichte 400-500
• Schlagwörter: (t)Tipiṭaka / Sutta-piṭaka / Dīgha-nikāya / Mahāparinirvāna-sūtra / (t)Guoqu xianzai yinguo jing / (t)Maya Sutra
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: *Mahāmāyā-sūtra
• Sach-SW: Faxian
• Sach-SW: Guoqu xianzai yinguo jing
• Sach-SW: Guṇabhadra
• Sach-SW: Mahāparinirvāṇa-sutra
• K10plus-PPN: 1575960230

Abstract

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.