Further Tibetan Sources of the *Kāśyapaparivarta from Dunhuang (II)
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Further Tibetan Sources of the *Kāśyapaparivarta from Dunhuang (II)
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Following on Part I of this paper, which introduced newly identified materials preserving portions of Tibetan versions of the *Kāśyapaparivarta, namely the Dunhuang manuscripts Pelliot tibétain 678 and IOL Tib J 57, Part II here continues with another new source, IOL Tib J 57, and a reconsideration of the previously noted IOL Tib J 152, Pelliot tibétain 671 and 672.
Citation
Silk, Jonathan. "Further Tibetan Sources of the *Kāśyapaparivarta from Dunhuang (II)." Annual Report of The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University 26 (2023): 195–213.
Interconnections
1 Scholarship on
Kāśyapaparivarta. (T. 'Od srung gi le'u; C. Yiri monibao jing; J. Yuinichi manihōkyō; K. Yuil manibo kyǒng 遺日摩尼寶經). In Sanskrit, "The Kāśyapa Chapter"; a sūtra from one of the earliest strata of Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism, probably dating from sometime in the first Century CE. The sūtra offers an overview of practices emblematic of bodhisattvas, which are arranged in several groups of four practices apiece. The text cites a "bodhisattva canon" (bodhisattvapiṭaka) as the source for the teaching on the six perfections (pāramitā) and offers one of the earliest mentions of the "thought of enlightenment" (bodhicitta) in its Mahāyāna interpretation as the aspiration to achieve buddhahood. A bodhisattva who generates this thought even for the first time is said to be superior to the solitary buddhas (pratyekabuddha) and disciples (śrāvaka). Disciples are also censured as not being true sons of the Buddha, an early expression of the later Mahāyāna school's more explicit denunciations of the so-called hīnayāna. The sūtra also refers to bodhisattva precepts (see bodhisattvaśīla), which will subsequently be elaborated upon in such texts as Maitreya/Asaṅga's Bodhisattvabhūmi and in such Chinese apocrypha as the Fanwang jing. The Kāśyapaparivarta was one of the first sūtras translated into Chinese, by the Indo-Scythian monk *Lokakṣema (c. 178-198 CE) in 179 CE; a later recension is also included in the massive Ratnakūṭa collection of sūtras. The Kāśyapaparivarta is one of a substantial number of scriptures in the Ratnakūṭa collection for which Sanskrit recensions have been rediscovered and edited. Its Sanskrit manuscript was first discovered in Khotan in the 1890s and was more than one thousand years old; other Sanskrit fragments have subsequently been recovered. (Source: "Kāśyapaparivarta." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 426. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
1 Related
In addition to previously known sources, newly identified materials preserving portions of Tibetan versions of the *Kāśyapaparivarta are here introduced, chiefly from Dunhuang manuscripts Pelliot tibétain 678 and IOL Tib J 57. Part II of this paper continues with another new source, IOL Tib J 57, and a reconsideration of the previously noted IOL Tib J 152, Pelliot tibétain 671 and 672.
1 Related
In addition to previously known sources, newly identified materials preserving portions of Tibetan versions of the *Kāśyapaparivarta are here introduced, chiefly from Dunhuang manuscripts Pelliot tibétain 678 and IOL Tib J 57. Part II of this paper continues with another new source, IOL Tib J 57, and a reconsideration of the previously noted IOL Tib J 152, Pelliot tibétain 671 and 672.
