Sutra on True Dharmas and False Dharmas (Shi Fa Fei Fa Jing) 是法非法經

Translated by An Shigao in 1 scroll.

Colophon

是法非法經 後漢 安世高譯 共 1 卷 Sutra on True Dharmas and False Dharmas (Shi Fa Fei Fa Jing); Translated by An Shigao in the Later Han in 1 scroll

Summary

Lists examples illustrating how a viruous monk will not boast of religious attainment, how one lacking in virtue will become arrogant, and so on

Notes

Correspondence with Sappurisasutta in the Pāli Canon and sūtra translation date 148-170 from Lancaster. (2004, 'K 690')

English translations

From the Pāli (Majjhima Nikāya 113)

Primary Source

An Shigao, trans., 《是法非法經》 'Shi Fa Fei Fa Jing (Sappurisasutta),' in Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō 《大正新脩大藏經》, in Takakusu Junjiro, ed., (Tokyo: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Kankōkai, 1988), Vol. 1, No. 48, Accessed 2016-07-09, http://tripitaka.cbeta.org/T01n0048.

References

  1. Bodhi. 1995.
  2. Lancaster 2004, s.v. K 690.
  3. Thanissaro Bhikkhu (trans.), 2013.
  4. Zürcher 2013, p. 442.

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