King Udayana Sūtra (Youtian Wang Jing) 優填王經

Translated by Fa Ju

Colophon

第 12 冊　No. 0332 佛說優填王經 西晉 法炬譯 共 1 卷 Volume 12, No. 332; King Udayana Sūtra (Youtian Wang Jing); Translated by Fa Ju in the Western Jin in 3 scroll(s)

Other Titles

Udayanavatsarājaparipṛcchā

Notes

Sanskrit title and date 290-306 from Lancaster (Lancaster 2004, 'K 38')

English Translation

Paul, Diana and Frances Wilson 1979, Women in Buddhism - Images of the Feminine in Mahāyāna Tradition, Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press, pp. 27–50, https://archive.org/details/womeninbuddhismi0000paul_o1q4.

Summary

This text tells the story of King Udayana who, after being offered a beautiful woman by her father, is taught by the Buddha about the impure and undesirable nature of the body, particularly that of women. The king then takes the woman as his queen, but is misled by her to persecute his virtuous first queen, who is a follower of the Buddha. Eventually, the king realizes his error after witnessing her miraculous display of compassion and seeks forgiveness from the Buddha, vowing to restrain his desires and follow the Buddha's teachings. (AI generated)

Primary Source

Fa Ju, 《優填王經》 'Udayanavatsarājaparipṛcchā (Youtian Wang Jing),' in Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō 《大正新脩大藏經》, in Takakusu Junjiro, ed., (Tokyo: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Kankōkai, 1988), Vol. 12, No. 332, Accessed 2016-08-31, http://tripitaka.cbeta.org/T12n0332.

References

  1. Lancaster, L.R. 2004, The Korean Buddhist Canon: A Descriptive Catalogue, http://www.acmuller.net/descriptive_catalogue.

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