方廣大莊嚴經

Readings

Pinyin: Fāngguǎng dà zhuāngyán jīng

Wade-Giles: Fang-kuang ta chuang-yen ching

Hangul: 방광대장엄경

Korean MC: Banggwang daejang-eom gyeong

Korean MR: Panggwang tae chang'ŏm kyŏng

Katakana: ホウコウダイショウゴンキョウ

Hepburn: Hōkō dai shōgon kyō

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Extensive Merriment

• The Fangguang da zhuangyan jing (Skt. Lalitavistara; Tib. rgya cher rol pa; Eng.). The Buddha describes his life in the Tuṣita heaven and his descent to save the world. Thus, it is a biographical account of the life of the Buddha based upon a Mahāyāna perspective. It covers the period from the Buddha's birth in Tuṣita Heaven until his first sermon. This work agrees generally with the Sanskrit text and the Tibetan version.It was translated into Chinese four times, but the first and third translations had already been lost by 730. The Sanskrit text has been edited by R. Mitra and revised by S. Lefmann.The extant translations are:
  1. 27 chapters in 12 fasc. T 187.3.539-617, alt. 神通遊戲經, abbr. 大莊嚴經, trans. Divākara 地婆訶羅 in 683. Vaipulya-mahāvyūha-sūtra
  2. 30 chapters in 8 fasc. T 186.3.483-539; also called the Puyao jing 普曜經, alt. Fangdeng benqi jing 方等本起經, trans. Dharmarakṣa 竺法護. For an Eng. translation and Mongol ed. see Poppe (1967).

  References:

  Nikolai N. PoppeThe Twelve Deeds of Buddha: Mongolian Version of the Lalitavistara Mongolian text, notes and English translationWiesbadenO. Harrossowitz1967 Asiatische Forschungen,23

  [resp. Iain Sinclair; ref. Soothill, YBh-Ind, Hirakawa, JEBD]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 948

Bulgyo sajeon, 250a

The Korean Buddhist Canon: A Descriptive Catalogue, {digital}

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), 112b/123

Ding Fubao

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0584

Bussho kaisetsu daijiten (Ono), ⑨431b*/⑨433d

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)4594c,4478b

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 1387-2

(Soothill's) Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms, 155

Notes

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