Śubhakarasiṃha’s Essentials of Meditation (Wuwei San Zang Chan Yao) 無畏三藏禪要

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第 18 冊　No. 917 無畏三藏禪要 唐 善無畏說 共 1 卷
Volume 18, No. 917, Wuwei San Zang Chan Yao, Śubhakarasiṃha’s Essentials of Meditation, Spoken by Śubhakarasiṃha in the Tang in 1 scroll

Summary

Describes initiation with repentance, recitation of vows, chanting of dhāraṇī, and meditation for recieving bodhicitta vows.

Notes

This text does not appear in the Korean canon. A Taishō footnote for this text reads:＜原＞縮刷大藏經, ＜甲＞平安時代寫東寺三密藏本, ＜乙＞黄蘗版性寂等校訂加筆本塚本賢曉氏藏, ＜丙＞黄蘗版 Source: Shukusatsu daizōkyō [Reduced Print Canon]; 1. Tō-ji Sanmitsu Canon manuscript from the Heian Period, 2. Shōjaku and others added collation and bibliographical notes for an Ōbaku version manauscript from Tsukamoto courtesy of the Akatsuki family repository, 3. Ōbaku version.

English translation

Bagchi, Prabodh Chandra 1945, 'Bodhisattva-śīla of Śubhākarasimha,' Sino-Indian Studies Vol. 1 No. 3: 132-160.

Primary Source

Śubhakarasiṃha, 《無畏三藏禪要》 'Wuwei San Zang Chan Yao,' in Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō 《大正新脩大藏經》, in Takakusu Junjiro, ed., (Tokyo: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Kankōkai, 1988), Vol. 18, No. 917, Accessed 2016-09-30, http://tripitaka.cbeta.org/T18n0917.

References

1. Giebel 2011, pp. 27-36.
2. Lin 2017, pp. 119-146.

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