This study reassesses an old problem in the history of Chinese Buddhism, the origins and nature of the Zengyi ahan jing 增一阿含經 (Taishō 125). It does so by a close investigation of the Chinese translation of the Ekottarika-āgama at the end of the fourth century and of its most important witness, the Fenbie gongde lun 分別功德論 (Taishō 1507). It is argued that the latter document, whose original title was Zengyi ahan jing shu 增一阿含經疏, should be seen as an unfinished commentary to the newly translated collection, produced within the original translation team (including Dao’an 道安, Zhu Fonian 竺佛念 and the Indo-Bactrian master Dharmananda) during the tumultuous end of the Qin秦 empire of Fu Jian苻堅in A.D. 385. This reconstruction yields further insights into the cultural origins of the Chinese Ekottarika-āgama, and its broader significance for the history of Buddhism.

 

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作者簡介

Antonello Palumbo is Lecturer in Chinese Religions at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Series preface
Foreword
Acknowledgments

Introduction
PART I. The Zengyi ahan jing 增一阿含經 (T.125)
CHAPTER ONE The translation of the Ekottarika-āgama
I. The initial redactions of the Zengyi ahan jing增一阿含經 (T.125), A.D. 384–385
I.1 The context: Dao’an 道安 and the translation group at Chang’an, A.D. 382–385
I.2 The translation of the Ekottarika-āgama and the different redactions of the Zengyi ahan jing 增一阿含經 (T.125), A.D. 384–385
II. The aftermath of the translation
II.1 The death of Dao’an 道安 and the dispersal of the Chang’an group
II.2 Saṃghadeva’s revision
II.3 Zhu Fonian 竺佛念
III. Four redactions, how many translations?
CHAPTER TWO Witnesses to the context and early re¬cep¬¬tion of the Zengyi ahan jing 增一阿含經 (T.125)
I. Before the translation
I.1 The narrative on the origin of the āgamas in the Parinirvāṇa sūtra (T.6)
I.2 Kumārajīva and the Ekottarika-āgama
II. Around the translation
II.1 The Zhuanji sanzang ji zazang zhuan 撰集三藏及雜藏傳 (T.2026)
II.2 The Fenbie gongde lun 分別功德論 (T.1507)
II.3 The manuscript S.797 (A.D. 406)
II.4 The miniature stūpas of Turfan and Liangzhou 涼州 (A.D. 426–435)
III. Early witnesses to the Zengyi ahan jing 增一阿含經
III.1 The Shijia pu 釋迦譜 (ca. A.D. 479–502)
III.2 The Fan fanyu 翻梵語 (ca. A.D. 502–512)
III.3 The Zengyi ahan jing 增一阿含經 parallels in the Taishō canon and the excerpts in the Jinglu yi¬xiang 經律異相 (ca. A.D. 517)
IV. The catalogues
V. Preliminary conclusions
PART II. The Fenbie gongde lun 分別功德論 (T.1507)
CHAPTER THREE The book in the catalogues
I. The Chu sanzang ji ji 出三藏記集 (ca. A.D. 515)
II. The Lidai sanbao ji 歷代三寶紀 (A.D. 598)
III. The Kaiyuan Shijiao lu 開元釋教錄 (A.D. 730)
CHAPTER FOUR Modern scholars
I. Jean Przyluski
II. Mochizuki Shinkō 望月信亨
III. Mori Sodō 森祖道
IV. Mizuno Kōgen 水野弘元
V. Other scholars
CHAPTER FIVE Internal evidence on the date and au¬thor¬-ship of the Fenbie gongde lun 分別功德論 (T.1507)
I. General features and contents of the commentary
II. The ‘foreign master/s’ (waiguo shi 外國師) and ‘that man’ (qi ren 其人)
III. The description of the Tripiṭaka and the hierarchy of the four āgamas
IV. The view of the vinaya
V. The authors’ notion of the origin of the Abhi¬dhar¬ma and the identification of Kātyāyanīputra with Mahā--Kātyāyana
VI. The relationship with the Zhuanji sanzang ji za¬zang zhuan 撰集三藏及雜藏傳 and the Mahāyānist layer
VII. The “small” ‘Greater Version’ (Dapin 大品) of the Prajnāpāramitā
VIII. Scriptural quotations
VIII.1 Da ai jing 大哀經 (Tathāgatamahākaruṇānirdeśa)
VIII.2 Weimojie jing 維摩詰經 (Vimalakīrtinirdeśa)
VIII.3 Zhude futian jing 諸德福田經
IX. The Aśokan narratives
X. A pericope rhyming in Chinese
XI. Distinctive terms and expressions in the Fenbie gongde lun 分別功德論 (T.1507)
XI.1 Da fa 大法 (Great Law) = Abhidharma
XI.2 Shenzi 身子 = Śāriputra
XI.3 “… has not yet fallen to the ground” (wei zhui yu di 未墜於地)
XI.4 Shishi 石室 = Takṣaśilā
XI.5 Zhenjing 真淨 = Śuddhodana
XI.6 Huoman tongzi 火鬘童子 = *Jyotipāla (< Jyoti-māla) māṇava
CHAPTER SIX The authorship, date and nature of the document
CHAPTER SEVEN The Chinese translation of the Ekotta-rika-āgama reconsidered

EPILOGUE The cultural origins of the Chinese Ekotta-rika-āgama and the rise of Greater Serindia in the his¬tory of Buddhism

APPENDIX A synopsis of T.1507 and the correspond¬ing passages in T.125

Abbreviations and references

General index