Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

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. shingon rissh 853


Sūtra (Ryakunenjukyō ; full title Daibirushana bussetsu
yōryaku nenju kyō ; T. 850); 10) the
Susiddhikara sūtra (Sushijikyō , also Shoshijikyō; T. 893);^19
and 11) the Treatise on Mahāyāna (Shakumakaenron ;
T. 1668).^20 The first four texts are major scriptures of the Risshū cor-
pus; the latter six are part of the Shingon canon (Lévi 1937, 323–25).


Broucke and Pinte, trans., 2011. See also Goepper 1993 for an English translation of
chapter 5.


(^19) See Klaus L. Pinte, “Śubhākarasiṃha (637–735),” in this volume; Giebel 2001.
(^20) The Shi moheyan lun is a commentary on the East Asian composition of the
Awakening of Faith (Daijōkishinron ; T. 1666), attributed to Nāgārjuna
(second to third centuries), but which was composed between the seventh and eighth
centuries in the Korean kingdom of Silla (Buswell 2007, 369–70, n. 284).

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