楞伽經

Readings

Pinyin: Lèng qié jīng

Wade-Giles: Leng-chia ching

Hangul: 능가경

Korean MC: Neungga gyeong

Korean MR: Nŭngga kyŏng

Katakana: リョウガキョウ

Hepburn: Ryōga kyō

Lăng già kinh

Laṅkâvatāra-sūtra

• Lengjia jing. T 670, T 671, T 672. The Sutra on (the Buddha's) Entering (the Country of) Lanka, of which there were four translations into Chinese, three of which are extant. Said to have been delivered on the Laṅka mountain in Sri Lanka, probably composed in the fourth or fifth century CE. A text that held enormous influence among many schools in all regions of East Asia, including such disparate traditions as East Asian Yogâcāra (Faxiang 法相), where it was considered to be one of the six orthodox scriptures 六經, and Chan, where it is associated with some of the early founders of the Chinese tradition. The Laṅkâvatāra contains criticisms of the Sāṃkhya, Pāśupata and other Brahmanistic schools, and attempts to explain the points of potential conflation of Mahāyāna and Brahmanistic philosophy. Discussing a number of characteristic Yogâcāra/Tathāgatagarbha theories, such as the eight consciousnesses 八識 and tathāgatagarbha 如來藏, the sutra was instrumental in the formation of the Tathāgatagarbha flow of Mahāyāna thought which held so much influence on the development of Chan.

  Avatāra 阿跋多羅 means "enter" 入. It is understood that the research on the Laṅkâvatāra-sūtra was stimulated by its mention in connection with the Chan line associated with Bodhidharma 菩提達磨 and Huike 慧可 in the sixteenth fascicle of the Tang Biographies of Eminent Monks, and this trend probably continued up through the time of Shenhui 神秀. After the appearance of the Huineng 慧能 tradition however, Chan scriptural associations tended to drift toward the Diamond Sutra 金剛經. The text's key doctrinal positions include the explanation of the two kinds of selflessness 二無我 and the four kinds of meditation 四種禪.

  There were numerous treatises and commentaries composed on Laṅkâvatāra, including those by Faxian, Wonhyo and others, and the sutra was often discussed in relation with the Awakening of Mahāyāna Faith 起信論. Daisetsu Suzuki 鈴木大拙 was the first to introduce the sutra to the West in his Studies in the Laṅkâvatāra-sūtra. Chinese translations include:
  1. Lengqiejing sijuan 楞伽經四卷 by Dharmakṣema between 412-433, listed in the Kaiyuan lu at T 2154.55.629b11 (not extant).
  2. Lengqie abatuoluo baojing 楞伽阿跋多羅寶經, 4 fasc. trans. (partial) by Guṇabhadra 求那跋陀羅 in 443; [T 670.16.479-513];
  3. Rulengqiejing 入楞伽經, 10 fasc. trans. Bodhiruci 菩提流支 in 513; T 671.16.514-586; and
  4. Dasheng rulengqie jing 大乘入楞伽經, 7 fasc. trans. Śikṣānanda 實叉難陀 in 700; T 672.16.587-639

  English Translations:

  Red Pine (Bill Porter)The Lankavatara SutraBerkeleyCounterpoint2012

  Suzuki, Daisetsu TeitaroThe Lankavatara sutra; a Mahayana textLondonG. Routledge and Sons1932

  Tokiwa GishinLankavatara Sutra: A Jewel Scripture of Mahāyāna Thought and PracticeKyotoPrivately published2003

  [resp. Charles Muller, M. Radich; ref. Hirakawa, JEBD,Iwanami]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 1114

Bulgyo sajeon, 194a

Bulgyo sajeon, 194a

Chūgoku bukkyōshi jiten (Kamata), 16,74,399

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 1281a

Iwanami bukkyō jiten, 833

Record of Mazu: Baso no goroku (Iriya), 18-4

A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki), 293

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), 243a/269

Zen Dust (Sasaki), 373

Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga), 3-P47

Fo Guang Dictionary, 5491

Ding Fubao

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0660

Bussho kaisetsu daijiten (Ono), ⑪254a/⑪254b*/⑪255a

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)4127b

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 1802-3

(Soothill's) Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms, 402

Copyright © 2010 -- Charles Muller

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