Discourse of the Explanation of the Twelve Nidanas (Ahan Kou Jie Shi Er Yinyuan Jing) 阿含口解十二因緣經

Translated by An Xuan and Yan Fotiao

Colophon

第 25 冊　No. 1508 阿含口解十二因緣經 後漢 安玄共嚴佛調譯 共 1 卷 Volume 25, No. 1508; Discourse of the Explanation of the Twelve Nidanas (Ahan Kou Jie Shi Er Yinyuan Jing); Translated by An Xuan and Yan Fotiao in the Later Han in 1 scroll

Summary

Explains the chain of causation, the functions of the body, and the elements as the causes of diseases

Notes

Date 181 from Lancaster (2004, 'K 1023'). Wrongly attributed to An Xuan. It should be attributed to An Shigao (Zürcher 2013, p. 442).

English translations

None

Parallel

Bodhi, Bhikkhu, trans., The Great Discourse on Causation: The Maha Nidana Sutta and its Commentaries (Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society, 1984).

Primary Source

An Xuan and Yan Fotiao, 《阿含口解十二因緣經》 'Ahan Kou Jie Shi Er Yinyuan Jing,' in Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō 《大正新脩大藏經》, in Takakusu Junjiro, ed., (Tokyo: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Kankōkai, 1988), Vol. 25, No. 1508, Accessed 2016-10-13, http://tripitaka.cbeta.org/T25n1508.

References

  1. FGDB, s.v. 阿含口解十二因緣經.
  2. Lancaster 2004, 'K 1023'.
  3. Zürcher 2013, p. 442.

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