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- Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:55 am
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Jayarava's New Thesis on Heart Sutra: Sanskrit Version Deliberate Forgery by Tang Chinese
- Replies: 77
- Views: 19115
Re: Jayarava's New Thesis on Heart Sutra: Sanskrit Version Deliberate Forgery by Tang Chinese
I'll also add this snippet from the nidāna of the Sarvatathāgatatattvasaṅgraha, translated into Chinese in 753: ...śāśvatastryadhvasamayavyavasthitaḥ sarvakāyavākcittavajrastathāgataḥ.. Wow, that is even more direct and explicit of an example than what I was able to find. I'll be really interested ...
- Tue Nov 27, 2018 11:50 am
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Jayarava's New Thesis on Heart Sutra: Sanskrit Version Deliberate Forgery by Tang Chinese
- Replies: 77
- Views: 19115
Re: Jayarava's New Thesis on Heart Sutra: Sanskrit Version Deliberate Forgery by Tang Chinese
Also it is now unequivocally true that the Sanskrit Heart Sutra is a translation from the Chinese. Unfortunately my most recent peer-reviewed article is not quite in print - but it is all finished and signed off on. I will happily send copies to anyone who is interested as soon as possible. The abs...
- Mon Aug 20, 2018 1:47 am
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Jayarava's New Thesis on Heart Sutra: Sanskrit Version Deliberate Forgery by Tang Chinese
- Replies: 77
- Views: 19115
Re: Jayarava's New Thesis on Heart Sutra: Sanskrit Version Deliberate Forgery by Tang Chinese
Then of course there is this from Wonchu'ks commentary on the Heart Sutra: In other words, when Wonchuk wrote this, there were already two translations of the Heart Sūtra in circulation, an "old" one, and one revised on the basis of a Sanskrit original by Hsuan Tsang. This fact is mention...
- Sun Aug 19, 2018 10:25 am
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Jayarava's New Thesis on Heart Sutra: Sanskrit Version Deliberate Forgery by Tang Chinese
- Replies: 77
- Views: 19115
Jayarava's New Thesis on Heart Sutra: Sanskrit Version Deliberate Forgery by Tang Chinese
Was visiting Reddit Buddhism last night when I saw someone post an update from Jayarava Atwood''s blog. Apparently he's been busy writing out new analysis on the Heart Sutra this month, in no less than three interconnected essays all titled "The True History of the Heart Sutra": http://jay...
- Tue Jun 05, 2018 1:10 pm
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Has the Heart Sutra Been Finally Proven as Chinese Apocrypha?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 16965
Re: Has the Heart Sutra Been Finally Proven as Chinese Apocrypha?
Here's a small nugget I was able to find while thinking about this intriguing sentence Jayarava wrote: http://jayarava.blogspot.com/2017/11/japanese-reception-of-chinese-origins.html There is no doubt in my mind, despite some minor slips on Nattier's part, that the thesis is accurate. I think I have...
- Mon Jun 04, 2018 12:49 pm
- Forum: Sūtra Studies
- Topic: 般若佛姆心咒
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3641
Re: 般若佛姆心咒
It's interesting OP has not yet replied despite asking for the forum's help in the first place
- Fri May 04, 2018 10:07 am
- Forum: Sūtra Studies
- Topic: 般若佛姆心咒
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3641
Re: 般若佛姆心咒
Does anyone have any information about this text 般若佛姆心咒 which is found tacked onto the end of Xuanzang's translation of Prajñāpāramitā texts T220? It has the Heart Sutra dhāraṇī presented as a mantra (beginning with oṃ ). It strikes me as anachronistic, if only because it includes oṃ , a feature of...
- Fri May 04, 2018 9:58 am
- Forum: Sūtra Studies
- Topic: 般若佛姆心咒
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3641
Re: 般若佛姆心咒
Or is there evidence of oṃ in use before the 8th Century? Can anyone point to any articles or books that discuss this text? Thanks There are quite a couple of tantric texts in the Chinese canon that features Om and are dated well earlier than 700 A.D. For example, the earliest dated text (c.563 or ...
- Sat Jan 20, 2018 12:18 pm
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Has the Heart Sutra Been Finally Proven as Chinese Apocrypha?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 16965
Re: Has the Heart Sutra Been Finally Proven as Chinese Apocrypha?
In any case, Jayarava attempts to "seal the deal" by posting a "best of" compilation of his case against the Heart Sutra yesterday: http://jayarava.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-chinese-origins-of-heart-sutra.html Wonder if anyone with serious Sanskrit chops and comment on his piece. ...
- Sat Jan 20, 2018 12:15 pm
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Has the Heart Sutra Been Finally Proven as Chinese Apocrypha?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 16965
Re: Has the Heart Sutra Been Finally Proven as Chinese Apocrypha?
The rest of it is not really going into. The guy's admittedly only had a few hours of formal Sanskrit training and is mostly self-taught. His understanding of Nagarjuna and the rest of the canon is pretty laughable. If this article is supposed to be proof of his chops as an academic, it falls far s...
- Tue Nov 28, 2017 11:01 pm
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Has the Heart Sutra Been Finally Proven as Chinese Apocrypha?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 16965
Re: Has the Heart Sutra Been Finally Proven as Chinese Apocrypha?
Jayarava is the very same person that has suggested that the Buddha himself never even existed. Why would anybody take people like this seriously? These kind of people aren't followers of the Buddha. The only thing they are trying to do is deconstruct and destroy. Nothing other than that. Well, thi...
- Tue Nov 28, 2017 5:25 am
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Has the Heart Sutra Been Finally Proven as Chinese Apocrypha?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 16965
Has the Heart Sutra Been Finally Proven as Chinese Apocrypha?
Recently Jayarava Atwood, which I'm sure many here on this forum are familiar with, has been a blistery pace in analyzing and deconstructing the famous Heart Sutra in East Asian Buddhism. His posts are many in the past 2 years, but here are the most prominent ones: http://jayarava.blogspot.com/2017/...
- Tue May 31, 2016 8:26 am
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: What Did the Japanese Preserved that the Chinese Lost?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3096
Re: What Did the Japanese Preserved that the Chinese Lost?
Indrajala, Thank you for that informative breakdown! In terms of the textual canon, do you know of any resources or articles out there that has a comprehensive summary/rundown on each of the Chinese texts that were lost in China proper but later recovered from Japan? Also, off the top of your head, ...
- Mon May 30, 2016 10:22 am
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: Arya-Manjusthrimulakalpa: Chinese Translation Available?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1969
Arya-Manjusthrimulakalpa: Chinese Translation Available?
Hi all, Recent came across this early medieval text that was often referred to by scholars of Indian Buddhist history: http://www.dsbcproject.org/node/8234 That contains some interesting historical traditions regarding the Guptan emperors. From what I read, apparently there was also a Chinese transl...
- Mon May 30, 2016 9:28 am
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: What Did the Japanese Preserved that the Chinese Lost?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3096
What Did the Japanese Preserved that the Chinese Lost?
In homage to the other thread on the reception of Japanese Buddhism in the Sinosphere, Indrajala asserted that the Japanese Buddhist traditions actually preserved many texts, rituals, art, lineages, etc. that have been lost in China proper since the last millenia (I take it?). As someone who has hea...