Sutra del Lotus
- Idioma:
- anglès
- Traducció:
- Hendrik Kern
- Completesa:
- Obra completa
- Autoria:
- Anònima o composta
- Estat del text:
- Text net
- Extensió:
- ~140.000 paraules · 648 passatges
Cita aquesta obra
- APASutra del Lotus. (n.d.). Sutra del Lotus. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/lotus-sutra/the-saddharma-pundarika-lotus-of-the-true-law-sbe-xxi
- MLASutra del Lotus. "Sutra del Lotus." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/lotus-sutra/the-saddharma-pundarika-lotus-of-the-true-law-sbe-xxi.
- ChicagoSutra del Lotus. Sutra del Lotus. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/lotus-sutra/the-saddharma-pundarika-lotus-of-the-true-law-sbe-xxi.
De què tracta
El «Sutra del lotus de la llei veritable», el text mes influent del budisme mahayana a l'Asia oriental, en la traduccio de Kern per als «Sacred Books of the East».
Context i història
Compost en sanscrit segurament entre els segles I i III, i conegut sobretot per la traduccio xinesa de Kumarajiva del 406, que es la que va fer historia. La tesi que el va fer decisiu es la del «vehicle unic»: els diferents ensenyaments del Buda no son doctrines rivals sino mitjans adaptats a la capacitat de qui escolta, i tots porten al mateix lloc. D'aqui la idea dels «mitjans habils» i les paraboles famoses —la casa en flames, el fill prodig—, que son la manera com el sutra ho explica. Sobre aquest text es van fundar les escoles Tiantai a la Xina i Tendai i Nichiren al Japo. La traduccio de Kern es del 1884 i tradueix del sanscrit, no del xines: llegeix una tradicio diferent de la que va formar l'Asia oriental.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
free from depravity, self-controlled 2 , thoroughly eman¬ cipated in thought and knowledge, of noble breed, (like unto) great elephants, having done their task, done their duty, acquitted their charge, reached the goal; in whom the ties which bound them to existence were wholly destroyed, whose minds were thoroughly emancipated by perfect knowledge, who had reached the utmost perfection in subduing all their thoughts; who were possessed of the transcendent faculties 3 ; 1 I. e. Vulture Peak. 2 Varlbhfita. Like vasin, it likewise means, ‘having subdued others or the world.’ 8 The five Abhi^mas, viz. the magical powers, the divine ear, S ADD H ARMA-PUJVDARf KA. I. eminent disciples, such as the venerable A^ata- KauwaTinya, the venerable Arva^it, the venerable Vdshpa, the venerable MahAn4man, the venerable Bhadrika 1 , the venerable Mah&-Ki.syapa, the venera¬ ble K&fyapa of Uruvilvd, the venerable Klryapa of Nadi, the venerable KcUyapa of Gay4 2 , the venera¬ ble Aariputra, the venerable Mahi-Maudgalyiyana 3 , the venerable Maha-K&ty&yana 4 , the venerable Ani- ruddha 5 , the venerable Revata, the venerable Kap- phma 6 , the venerable Gavimpati, the venerable Pilindavatsa, the venerable Vakula, the venerable Bh&radvS^a 7 , the venerable Mahi-Kaush^ila 8 , the venerable Nanda (alias Mahinanda), the venerable knowledge of the thoughts of others, knowledge of former exist¬ ences, the divine eye. Sometimes a sixth Abhi^M is added, viz. the knowledge which causes the destruction of human passion; Bumouf, Lotus, p. 820 sqq.; Spence Hardy, Eastern Monachism, p. 284. 1 These are known as the Five Bhadravargiyas, or, in Pali, Pamiavaggiyas; they were the first five disciples.…