The Zen Record

Laṅkāvatāra Sutra楞伽經

Date
443
Language
Classical Chinese
Catalogue
Taishō T.670

The sutra tradition says Bodhidharma handed to Huike, here in Guṇabhadra’s four-fascicle translation of 443. Important to early Chan; four Chinese translations were made, and three survive.

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Sources

  • Guṇabhadra 求那跋陀羅 (trans.), Lengqie abaduoluo bao jing 楞伽阿跋多羅寶經 (Laṅkāvatāra Sutra), Guṇabhadra's translation · link
  • Zhisheng 智昇, Kaiyuan shijiao lu 開元釋教錄 (730) · link
  • Daoxuan 道宣, Xu gaoseng zhuan 續高僧傳 (Further Biographies of Eminent Monks) (645) · link
  • Ding Fubao 丁福保, Foxue da cidian 佛學大辭典 (1922) · link
  • William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous, A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms (1937) · link

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