Remarks on Shih Seng-Yu's "Ch'u San-Tsang Chi-Chi" as a Source for Hui-Chiao's "Kao-Seng Chuan" as Evidenced in Two Versions of the Biography of Tao-an
1957; Brill; Volume: 10; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1579644
ISSN1877-8372
Autores Tópico(s)Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics
ResumoProfessor Arthur F. Wright in his very valuable article, Biography and Hagiography, Hui-chiao's Lives of Eminent Monks, has discussed (pp. 383-432 of the Silver Jubilee Volume of the Zinbun-Kagaku-Kenkyisyo, Ky6to University, I954) among other problems connected with the Kao-seng chuan ~ i ' f (abbrev. KSC), the sources which Huichiao M (f (497-554 A.D.) used in compiling his magnum opus. The KSC, as is well-known, is one of the most important sources for the history of Chinese Buddhism for the period covered by it, namely, 67-519 A.D., hence, the question of the sources used in its compilation assumes considerable interest. Outstanding among these sources is Shih Seng-yu's I fj' jjlJ (445 ?-5I8) Ch'u san-tsang chi-chi jt - R (A Compilation of Notices on the (Issued =) Translated Tripitaka; abbrev. CST), which is, as Wright has noted (p. 42I), the only major source of the KSC that has survived intact. The CST seems to have been composed late in Seng-yu's life, probably between 5io and 515. The last date given in this work is not, as Wright assumed (p. 421, n. 8), T'ien-chien 9 or 5Io, but is the twenty-third day of the second month of the fourteenth year of T'ien-chien or 515; see CST 7, Taisho vol. 55.5oc.-Thirty-two subjects are given biographies in the fourth section of Seng-yu's work, and all of these are alloted biographies in Hui-chiao's KSC. The following notes, which are restricted to a comparison of Hui-chiao's and Seng-yu's versions of the famous Chin R dynasty monk Shih Tao-an's Mt : < (312-385 A.D.) biography, were made as a preliminary investigation in preparation for a translation of the KSC biography of
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