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A Basic Survey of Renwangbore-shixianglun

  • 불교학리뷰
  • Abbr : Critical Review for Buddhist Studies
  • 2018, (24), pp.37-65
  • DOI : 10.29213/crbs..24.201812.37
  • Publisher : Geumgang Center for Buddhist Studies
  • Research Area : Humanities > Buddhist Studies
  • Received : November 15, 2018
  • Accepted : December 7, 2018
  • Published : December 31, 2018

Lee Sangmin 1

1고려대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This paper aims to submit the doctrinal features of a Dunhuang manuscript named Renwangbore-shixianglun (『仁王般若實相論』, henceforth“RBS”), which is a commentary on a Chinese apocryphal sūtra Renwang-Jing (『仁王經』). The results of this research can be summarized as follows: 1) Compared to the original manuscript, the printed version of RBS in Taisho edition contains a substantial amount of erroneous passages. In total, 110 errors have been verified through the textual analysis. 2) The Renwang-Jing in the RBS contains slightly different passages from the present Renwang-Jing. This suggests that different versions of Renwang-Jing may have existed at the time of composing RBS, approximately the early 6th C.E. 3) RBS mentions doctrines that are characteristic of those introduced by the Dilun Masters, such as Three Bodies (三身) or Three Secular Worlds (三種世間). This implies that RBS was written under the ideological influence of the Dilun School. 4) Unlike other Dilun texts, however, RBS contains no passages quoting from Shidijing-lun (『十地經論』), which was the core reference of the Dilun School thought. Even in the section that explains the ten stages (十地) of the Bodhisattva, RBS refers to texts that existed before the Shidijing-lun was translated, such as Pusayingluobenye-Jing (『菩薩瓔珞本業經』) and Sizhupiposha-Lun(『十住毘婆沙論』*Daśabhūmika-vibhāṣā). 5) The list of texts quoted in RBS shows a close affinity to that of another Dunhuang manuscript Shidilun-yishu (『十地論義疏』). Especially the Youposejie-Jing (『優婆塞戒經』, *Upāsaka-śīla-sūtra) and the Sizhu-piposha-Lun are cited in these two texts exclusively. Moreover, these two texts share an identical passage that cannot be found elsewhere. These facts suggest that RBS and Shidilunyishu were written in the same doctrinal lineage.

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