Mahayana Infinite Life Sutra (Dasheng Wu Liang Shou Jing) 大乘無量壽經

Translated by Fa Cheng

Colophon

第 19 冊　No. 936 大乘無量壽經 唐 法成譯 共 1 卷
Volume 19, No. 936; Dasheng Wu Liang Shou Jing; Mahayana Infinite Life Sutra; Translated by Fa Cheng in the Tang in 1 scroll

Summary

An alternative Chinese translation of 大乘聖無量壽決定光明王如來陀羅尼經 Aparimitāyurdhāraṇī (T 937) from a Tang dynasty Dunhuang manuscript; this version also has translations in Sanskrit, Tibetan, Mongolian, Manchurian, and Huihu languages.

Other names

大乘無量壽宗要經 Mahayana Infinite Life Fundamental Tenets Sutra; 無量壽宗要經 Infinite Life Fundamental Tenets Sutra

Notes

This text does not appear in the Korean canon. A Taishō footnote for this text reads: ＜原＞唐代寫高楠順次郎氏藏敦煌本, ＜甲＞大英博物館藏古寫本 Source: Tang dynasty Dunhuang manuscript from the Takakusu Junjirō family collection; 1. manuscript from the British museum collection.

English translation

None, see below for German.

Parallels

  1. Walleser, Max 1916, “Aparimitāyur-jñāna-nāma-mahāyāna-sūtram: Nach einer nepalesischen Sanskrit-Handschrift mit der tibetischen und chinesischen Version,” Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse 12, https://digi.hadw-bw.de/view/sbhadwphkl_1916_12/0005. Contains a German translation from Sanskrit with source texts in Sanskrit and Tibetan.

Primary Source

Fa Cheng, 《大乘無量壽經》 'Dasheng Wu Liang Shou Jing,' in Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō 《大正新脩大藏經》, in Takakusu Junjiro, ed., (Tokyo: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Kankōkai, 1988), Vol. 19, No. 936, Accessed 2016-10-01, http://tripitaka.cbeta.org/T19n0936.

References

  1. FGDB, s.v. 大乘無量壽宗要經.
  2. Giebel 2011, pp. 27-36.

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