Sutra on the Origin of Practice (Xiuxing Ben Qi Jing) 修行本起經

Translated by Zhu Da Li and Kang Meng Xiang in 2 scrolls

Colophon

修行本起經 後漢 竺大力共康孟詳譯 共 2 卷 Sutra on the Origin of Practice (Xiuxing Ben Qi Jing); Translated by Zhu Da Li and Kang Meng Xiang in 1 scroll in the Later Han

Summary

A story of the early part of the Buddha’s career, from the prophecy of his Buddhahood by Dīpaṃkara to the first days of his enlightenment.

Notes

Date 197 from Lancaster (2004, 'K 765')

English translations

Karetzy, Patricia Eichenbaum 1992, The Life of the Buddha: Ancient Scriptural and Pictorial Traditions, New York: University Press of America.

Primary Source

Zhu Da Li and Kang Meng Xiang, trans., 《修行本起經》 'Xiuxing Ben Qi Jing,' in Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō 《大正新脩大藏經》, in Takakusu Junjiro, ed., (Tokyo: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Kankōkai, 1988), Vol. 3, No. 184, Accessed 2016-07-05, http://tripitaka.cbeta.org/T03n0184.

References

  1. Lancaster 2004, s.v. 'K 765'.
  2. Zürcher 2013, pp. 429-444.

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