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95 Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies, 2.1 (2019): 95–132

GEORGE A. KEYWORTH University of Saskatchewan george.keyworth@usask.ca

Keywords: Faxian, old Japanese manuscripts, Chinese Buddhism, Chinese pilgrims to India, Faxian’s translations

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.02.01.04

Abstract: In what we may call the standard Sino-Japanese Buddhist canons of the medieval period in East Asia, two distinct biographies of eminent Chinese trepiṭakas and pilgrims to India, Xuanzang 玄奘

(Genjō, c. 602–664) and Faxian 法顯 (Hōgan, 337–ca. 422), figure prominently. Xuanzang enjoyed considerable repute in Japan since the establishment of Kōfukuji 興福寺 in Nara, by the powerful Fuji- wara 藤原 family in the late seventh century. Little attention has been paid, however, to the notoriety of Faxian in Japan, where curious twelfth century copies of eighth century versions of his biography, Gaoseng Faxian zhuan 高僧法顯傳 (Z no. 1194, T no. 2085), are preserved within only three of the eight extant manuscript canons (Shōgozō 聖語藏, Nanatsudera 七寺一切經, Matsuo shrine 松尾社 一切經). In this paper I investigate the provenance of these early and reliable manuscript editions of the Faxian zhuan, and reveal some of the textual differences between printed, received editions of this account of Faxian’s life and travels and these Japanese texts. Through analysis of colophons to Faxian’s translations of the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇā-sūtra (Da bannihuan jing 大般泥洹經, Z no. 137,

The Other Great Chinese Trepiṭaka in Japan: Faxian as Translator

and Pilgrim in Medieval Japanese

Manuscript Canons

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1 Tucci, Rin-chen-bzaṅ-po, 37.

T no. 376) and the so-called non-Mahāyāna version (Da banniepan jing 大般涅槃經, Z no. 774, T no. 7), which were widely—and explic- itly—circulated in medieval Japan among Nara 南都六宗, Shingon- shū 真言宗, and Tendai 天台宗 Buddhists, it is evident that the legacy of Faxian as an archetypal pilgrim, translator, and teacher may rival apparent admiration for Xuanzang in medieval Japan.

On Approaching Trepiṭakas, the Tripiṭaka, and Pilgrims in Search of the Dharma

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here is ample evidence from early European studies of Buddhism that Chinese Buddhism is distinctive because of three particular pilgrims who traveled to India in search of sacred scriptures (qiufa gaoseng 求法高僧): Faxian (journey: 399–412 or 413), Xuanzang (journey: 629–645), and Yijing 義凈 (635–713, journey: 671–694).

Why else would Giuseppe Tucci, writing in 1933 about one of the most famous Tibetan translators lotsawas (lo Tsa ba), Rinchen Zangpo (rin chen bzan po, 958–1055), have made such a curious statement about religious exchanges during the tenth and eleventh centuries between the Spiti valley in India and western Tibet (Gu ge)?

This was a wonderful period in which Buddhist masters did not disdain to help their Tibetan brothers, who full of faith and mysti- cal ardour descended their steep mountains and did not hesitate in confronting dangers and discomforts of the Himalayan passes, sub- mitted with resignation to the hardships that a stay in the hot and humid Indian plains induced; messengers and apostles of religion and civilization who renewed with equal daring the example of the Chinese Buddhist pilgrims. Of this multitude of translators only names remain.1

Unless we can assume that Tucci read in some arcane Tibetan commentary about how a lama (bla ma) praised Chinese pilgrims

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or cited one of the Chinese accounts of the travels of Faxian, Xuan- zang, Yijing, or another eminent pilgrim, or perhaps he saw a mural with a Chinese pilgrim on it during his expeditions in the western Himālayas, I suspect that as a Sinologist and a specialist in the study of Indian and Tibetan religion Tucci read several of the early, chilling European language translations of these three monks’ voyages across western China, central Asia, and India.2 Although the chronology does not match up with Rémusat’s 1836 translation of Faxian’s Au- tobiography of the Eminent Monk Faxian (Gaoseng Faxian zhuan 高 僧法顯傳, Z no. 1194, T no. 2085, 51: 857a2–866c6)—also known as Record of Buddhist Kingdoms (Foguo ji 佛國記)—in one roll, it stands to reason that apart from [Protestant] missionizing activities in China, the reason so much attention was awarded to these three eminent Chinese pilgrims is because they enjoyed a remarkable status in Japan.

In Arthur Waley’s The Real Tripitaka, in between discussing several surly letters Xuanzang sent to cohorts he had met at Nālandā after he returned to China and an apparent controversy over whether or not secular officials could grasp the profundity of his translations of Dignāga’s Nyāyapraveśa (Yinming ruzhengli lun 因明入正理論, Z no. 726, T no. 1630) and Nyāmukha (Yinmine zhenglimen lunben

因明正理門論本, Z no. 724, T no. 1628), cites a Japanese historical record, the Shoku Nihongi 続日本紀 (comp. 797), to describe how the young monk Dōshō 道昭 (629–700, in China 653–660) met Xuanzang and received a small cooking pot (or kettle) as a gift from him.3 The casual reader might presume that Dōshō is mentioned in A Biography of the Tripiṭaka master of the Great Ci’en monastery of

2 On Faxian, see Klaproth, Clerc de Landresse, and Rémusat, Foé Koué Ki;

Legge, A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms. On Xuanzang, see Stanislas, Histoire de la Vie de Hiouen-Thsang; Beal, Si-yu-ki; Watters, On Yuan Chwang’s Travels in India. On Yijing, see Chavannes, I-tsing and Takakusu, Record of the Buddhist Religion. The most thorough analysis of Faxian in European language scholar- ship is Deeg, ‘Has Xuanzang really been in Mathurā?’ and Das Gaoseng-Faxian- Zhuan.

3 Waley, The Real Tripitaka, 105–06 and 284, citing ‘Shoku Nihonshoki, 1 ’.

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the Great Tang dynasty (Da Tang Da Ci’en si sanzang fashi zhuan

大唐大慈恩寺三藏法師傳, Z no. 1192, T no. 2053), compiled by Huili 慧立 and Yancong 彥悰 in ten rolls, but he is not mentioned in the text. Furthermore, Dōshō is also not in the Report on the career of Trepiṭaka Xuanzang of the Great Tang (Da Tang gu sanzang xuanzang fashi xingzhuang 大唐故玄奘三藏法師形狀, T no. 2052).

Therefore, it is unclear why Waley inserted this reference to Dōshō in his otherwise erudite reading of historiographical accounts of Xuan- zang’s life and times. I suspect that someone told him the connection to Dōshō is a fundamental part of Xuanzang’s legacy in East Asia.

There is ample evidence from both premodern East Asian sources and contemporary academic scholarship to demonstrate that Faxian and Xuanzang are the two most famous eminent Chinese Buddhist translators and pilgrims who traveled to India and numerous other kingdoms along the way, with Yijing following closely behind. Why, then, do we hear so much more about the legacy of Xuanzang than we do about Faxian? This question is as much about methodology as it is about the sources we use to reconstruct various historical trajectories or legacies in the history of East Asian Buddhism. Today, if we wish to investigate the textual legacy of Faxian, Xuanzang, or Yijing, we typically peruse printed editions of texts either in the modern Sino-Japanese Buddhist canon compiled during the Taishō era (1924–1935) in Japan, primarily following the second Korean Buddhist canon (comp. 1236–1251), or perhaps the [Zhaocheng 趙 成] Jin dynasty canon 金藏 (1147–1173), Jiaxing canon 嘉興大藏 經 (comp. 1579–1677), or the [Qianlong emperor (r. 1735–1796)]

Dragon canon 龍藏 (comp. 1733–1738).4 Yet, as Sam van Schaik succinctly pointed out about Tibetan manuscripts from the so-called

‘library cave’ in Dunhuang, ‘In the study of Tibetan Buddhism we have a canon, the bKa’ ‘gyur and bsTan ‘gyur, containing over a hun- dred volumes of scriptures, commentaries, and treatises; yet a canon

4 The most exhaustive study of Chinese Buddhist canons in English I am aware of is still Deleanu, ‘Transmission of Xuanzang’s Translation’; see also Wu,

‘From the “Cult of the Book”’. On the Korean canon(s), see Buswell, ‘Sugi’s Col- lation Notes’, 57.

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does not tell us very much about the day-to-day practice of a religious tradition’.5 It stands to reason, therefore, that if we wish to assess when, where, why—or if—Chinese pilgrims like Faxian, Xuanzang, or Yijing were as highly praised as Tucci, and others, have imagined they were in premodern East—and perhaps central—Asia, we ought to investigate manuscripts, rather than printed editions of Buddhist texts. Material evidence, including manuscripts, can speak to at least some of the motivations, lives, habits, and even routines that may have involved veneration of eminent Chinese pilgrim-translators.

Manuscripts, rather than printed books or canons, serve this purpose because, ‘they were not carefully selected and organized to present an idealized image of a tradition’, and ‘[w]hen we study manuscripts we are faced with the material evidence of a social group’.6

Whereas the cache of manuscripts discovered in cave seventeen of the Mogao grottoes near Dunhuang early last century are remarkable because they reflect a multilingual (e.g., in literary Chinese, Tibet- an, Khotanese, Sanskrit, Old Uyghur, Tangut, Sogdian, and even Hebrew), multicultural, and even multireligious community, both the state of their preservation and organization pose problems for historical, philological, codicological, and paleographical research.

Nearly 40,000 manuscripts and fragments from Chinese central Asia are now in libraries across the world: the British Museum has approx- imately 7,000 manuscripts with 6,000 fragments; the Bibliothèque nationale de France has about 10,000 documents; and the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts in St. Petersburg has 660 manuscript copies of Chinese Buddhist texts.7 As valuable as these manuscripts are from multiple research perspectives and questions, we probably cannot ever learn as much from them about a single social group as we can from at least two of the eight manuscript Buddhist canons preserved in Japan at Nanatsudera 七寺 (Nagoya) and Matsuo [Shintō] shrine

松尾社 (Kyoto), both of which were primarily copied during the twelfth century, chiefly from eighth century manuscripts.

5 Van Schaik, ‘Uses of Implements are Different’, 221–22.

6 Van Schaik, 221–22.

7 http://idp.bl.uk/pages/collections.a4d, accessed February, 2019.

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Because these manuscript canons have only received conscien- tious scholarly analysis almost entirely in Japan since the 1990s, it is unclear to me, for example, if Dōshō brought any of the man- uscripts with him when he returned to Japan after studying several treatises that Xuanzang translated (e.g., Yogācāryabhūmi-śāstra [Yuqiashidi lun, Yugashijiron 瑜伽師地論, Z no. 690, T no. 1579]

in one hundred rolls or Vijñaptimātratāsiddhi-śāstra [Chengweishi lun, Jōyuishikiron 成唯識論, Z no. 734, T no. 1585] in ten rolls). It is evident that the twelfth century manuscript copies of eighth century copies of Tang dynasty (618–907) editions of Chinese Buddhist lit- erature now preserved in Japan is that they are much more carefully organized than the incomplete Buddhist canon in the library of the small Three Realms temple (Sanjie si 三界寺) during the tenth cen- tury in cave 17 in Dunhuang. Many colophons exist to tell us about the history of these books in medieval Japan.8 The most pertinent information about the transmission of the texts that extoll the three pilgrims who traveled to India in search of the dharma and translat- ed sacred Sanskrit scriptures into Chinese (Trepiṭaka, sanzang 三藏), Faxian, Xuanzang, and Yijing, is that the section of the canon devot- ed to eminent pilgrims (guhō kōsōtō 求法高僧等) should contain the biography of Xuanzang (Z no. 1192, T no. 2053), Yijing’s account of forty-nine Chinese and seven Korean pilgrims who journeyed to India in Biographies of Eminent Monks who Searched for the Dharma in the Western Regions (Da Tang Xiyu qiufa gaoseng zhuan 大唐西 域求法高僧傳, Z no. 1193, T no. 2066) in two rolls, and Faxian’s autobiography, however, is incomplete in the Shōgozō collection and in the Matsuo shrine canon. Neither have the biography of Xuan- zang and old Japanese manuscript canons do not preserve Report on the career of Trepiṭaka Xuanzang of the Great Tang (T no. 2052).9

8 See Rong, ‘Dunhuang Library Cave’, who highlights the role of a monk named Daozhen 道真 who seems to have supplemented the cache/canon with apocryphal sūtras, Chan texts, and other material expunged from the canon by the Chinese state during the eighth century.

9 Forte, ‘Relativity of the Concept of Orthodoxy in Chinese Buddhism’, 247–48, note 7. Nakao and Honmon Hokkeshū Daihonzan Myōrenji, eds.,

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‘Matsuosha issaikyō’, 370–71: book cases (chitsu ) 496 and 498. On Yijing’s Da Tang Xiyu qiufa gaoseng zhuan, see Buswell and Lopez, Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 224.

Da Tang gu sanzang xuanzang fashi xingzhuang in the Taishō canon was kept in the sūtra library of Chion’in 知恩院 in Kyoto, and appears to date from the Heian period, which means it could have been [widely] available when the canons under review here were being copied; cf. T no. 2052, 50: 214a3n1: 【原】

平安時代寫觀智院藏本,【甲】平安時代寫寶菩提院本.

10 On the Shōgozō, see Lowe, ‘The Discipline of Writing’; ‘Buddhist Manu- script Cultures in Premodern Japan’.

11 The end of the road for these pilgrims is an encounter with the Buddha, who, coincidentally, resides in Thunderclap Monastery 大雷音寺 on Vulture peak 靈山 (Gṛdhrakūṭa-parvata). He arranges for them to receive precisely ‘one canon’ (yizang 一藏)—or ‘treasury’—of Buddhist scriptures, which amounts to precisely 5,048 rolls or scrolls ; see the translation by Wu Cheng’en and Yu, Journey to the West, Revised Edition, Volume 4, 396, n.7. Da Tang Xiyu ji is only absent from the Shōgozō and Matsuo shrine MSS canons in Japan.

Curiously, neither the Shōgozō repository for Buddhist scriptures, located at Tōdaiji 東大寺 (in Nara) next to the imperial Shōsōin 正 倉院 treasury house, nor the Matsuo shrine canon appear to have kept a copy of Record of a Journey to the Western Regions (Da Tang Xiyu ji 大唐西域記, Z no. 1178, T no. 2087) in ten rolls, which is the account of Xuanzang’s travels that Bianji 辯機 is credited with writing for him when he returned from India in 645.10 Most of the other manuscript canons that were copied on behalf of Shingon 真 言宗 temples kept copies of this famous chronicle, which, in turn, almost certainly inspired the marvelously popular adventures of Tripiṭaka (Xuanzang), Monkey 孫悟空, Sandy 沙悟淨, Pigsy 豬八戒, and their patron-saint, the female bodhisattva Guanyin (Avalokiteś- vara) on their legendary journey from China to India in search of Buddhist scriptures in Wu Cheng’en’s 吳承恩 (1501–1582) Journey to the West (Xiyou ji 西遊記).11 Another unanticipated lacunae con- cerns Yijing’s own account of his pilgrimage to Sumatra and India, Tales of Returning from the South Seas with the Dharma (Da Tang Nanhai jigui neifazhuan 大唐南海寄歸內法傳, Z no. 1204, T no.

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12 The Shōgozō contains 715 titles in 4,063 scrolls, which were hand-copied at the behest of the imperial family during the Nara period eighth century. Cf. Iida,

‘Shōgōzō kyōkan “Jingo keiun ni nen gogangyō” ni tsuite’; Sakaehara, Shōsōin monjo nyūmon.

2125), which is preserved at Matsuo shrine and Nanatsudera, but not in the Shōgozō.12

MSS Editions of Faxian’s Works: Dunhuang, Nanatsudera and the Matsuo Shrine Canons

Because of ground breaking efforts by members of the Academic Frontier Project of the International College for Postgraduate

Buddhist Studies 国際仏教学大学院大学学術フロンティア実行

委員会 (ICPBS) in Tokyo, directed by Ochiai Toshinori 落合俊 典, we know a great deal about the Nanatsudera and Kongōji 金剛 寺 canons. Rediscovered in 1990 by a team of researchers in Japan that included Ochiai and Antonino Forte, which was already cat- alogued in 1968 by a team from the Agency for Cultural Affairs 文 化庁, the Nanatsudera collection of scriptures is remarkable because it is clearly organized according to the Newly Revised Catalog of Buddhist Scriptures, Compiled During the Zhenyuan Era [785–805]

(Zhenyuan xinding Shijiao lu 貞元新定釋教録, Z no. 1184, T no.

2157, comp. 800), rather than what we presume all fifteen premod- ern printed Chinese Buddhist canons—from the Kaibao ed. 開寶藏

(971–983) to the Dragon Canon—loosely follow: the order outlined in Record of Śākyamuni’s Teachings, Compiled During the Kaiyuan Era [713–741] (Kaiyuan Shijiao lu 開元釋教錄, Z no. 1183, T no.

2154, comp. 730). Yet the Nanatsudera canon has more texts than it should. Instead of 1,258 titles in 5,390 rolls as the Taishō edition contains, the Nanatsudera edition of the Zhenyuan lu has 1,206 titles in 5,351 rolls. The Nanatsudera edition of the Kaiyuan lu, which is copied from a manuscript dated to 735 (Tenpyō 天平 7) and brought back to Japan by Genbō 玄昉 (d. 746; in China: 718–735), has 1,046 titles in 5,048 rolls, in contrast to the Taishō edition with 1,076 titles

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13 Keyworth, ‘Apocryphal Chinese books’, 3, 8.

14 Keyworth, 2.

15 Solonin, ‘Glimpses of Tangut Buddhism’.

in the same number of rolls. The Matsuo shrine canon closely reflects the Nanatsudera Zhenyuan lu, but only 3,545 rolls are extant.13

The Matsuo shrine canon may only appear to be incomplete.

Whereas the Nanatsudera canon has 4,954 rolls and the Kongōji canon has about 4,500, despite the ravages of time, only 3,545 rolls (approx. 825 separate titles) of the Matsuo shrine canon survive today. Nevertheless, this canon is remarkable because of the number of colophons (okugaki 奥書) it has. The Nanatsudera canon has 378 rolls with colophons (158 separate titles) with dates or marginalia;

the Kongōji canon has about 230 rolls (103 titles) with colophons.

The Matsuo shrine canon has 1,236 rolls (approx. 345 titles) with colophons that provide dates, collation information, scribes’ names, and evidence to tell us why both Shintō priests (kannushi 神主, negi

禰宜, etc.) and Buddhist monastics copied scriptures at sacred sites across the Kinki 近畿 region and beyond to be recited before the kami of Matsuo shrine-temple complex (jingūji 神宮寺).14

In the following analysis of texts about, connected to, or attribut- ed to Faxian preserved in East Asian canons, I compare manuscripts primarily from the Matsuo and Nanatsudera canons in Japan to those from Dunhuang and what is now held in the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts St. Petersburg from other archaeological exca- vations by Pyotr Kozlov who made an expedition to Khara-Khoto (Heishuicheng 黑水城) during 1907–1909.15

There are six texts connected to Faxian: (a) Biography of the Eminent Monk Faxian (Gaoseng Faxian zhuan, Z no. 1194, T no. 2085, 51: 857a2–866c6), also known as Record of Buddhist Kingdoms (Foguo ji) in one roll; (b) Mahāyāna Mahāparinir- vāṇā-sūtra (Da bannihuan jing 大般泥洹經, Z no. 137, T no. 376, 12: 853a2–899c24) in six rolls; (c) the so-called non-Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇā-sūtra (Da banniepan jing 大般涅槃經, Z no. 774, T no. 7, 1: 191b2–207c12) in three rolls; (d) Kṣudraka-sūtra (Foshuo zazang jing 仏説雑藏経, Z no. 884, T no. 745, 17: 557b11–560b6)

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in one roll; (e) *Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya (Mohe sengqi lü 摩訶僧祇 律, Z no. 1008, T no. 1425, 22: 227a2–549a3) in forty rolls; and (f)

*Mahāsāṃghika-bhikṣuṇī-prātimokṣa-sūtra (Mohe sengqi biqiuni jieben

摩訶僧祇比丘尼戒本, Z no. 1017, T no. 1427, 22: 556a22–566c6).

No copy of the Biography of the Eminent Monk Faxian was discovered in cave seventeen at Dunhuang.16 Only a small fragment of the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra (Z no. 137, T no. 376) survived from Chinese central Asia. It is in the St. Petersburg collec- tion, Dx3203 corresponds with Daban nihuan jing 2, T no. 376, 12:

867c4–14.17 There are ten fragments of the non-Mahāyāna version of the Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra (Z no. 774, T no. 7) from Dun- huang.18 Two fragments of the Kṣudraka-sūtra are extant: P. 3710 [T no. 745, 17: 557b14–c15] and F142 [T no. 745, 17: 557c15–558c4].

There are nearly sixty fragments of the *Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya from the Stein, Pelliot, St. Petersburg, and Chinese collections.19 Finally,

16 Kokusai bukkyōgaku daigakuindaigaku fuzokutoshokan, Taishōzō Tonkō, 228.

17 Kokusai bukkyōgaku daigakuindaigaku fuzokutoshokan, 130.

18 Kokusai bukkyōgaku daigakuindaigaku fuzokutoshokan, 3: BD6207-2 [T no. 7, 1: 411a7–419c29] and S. nos. 486 [T no. 7, 1: 411a16–c3], 6072 [T no.

7, 1: 4428b16–28], 81 [T no. 7, 1: 429a10–433c19], 3385 [T no. 7, 1: 441a14–

446b15], 489 [T no. 7, 1: 482b9], 6534 [T no. 7, 1: 522b2–528a4], 307 [T no.

7, 1: 522b18–528a4], 2849 [T no. 7, 1: 543c29–546b6], and 2855 [T no. 7, 1:

574b10–580c16].

19 Kokusai bukkyōgaku daigakuindaigaku fuzokutoshokan, 212–13. T no. 1425, 22: 227a2–549a3 viz. S. 5766[14] (T no. 1425, 22: 235a2–9), S.

5766[15] (T no. 1425, 22: 235b10–c24), S. 3448 (T no. 1425, 22: 235c14–

236a7), S. 5766[2] (T no. 1425, 22: 235c24–236a11), S. 5766[3] (T no. 1425, 22: 236a28–b11), S. 5766[7] (T no. 1425, 22: 236b14–29), S. 5766[9] (T no.

1425, 22: 236c6–10), S. 5665[2-3] (T no. 1425, 22: 239b26–c22), S. 5665[2- 2] (T no. 1425, 22: 239c24–243a2), S. 5665[2-5] (T no. 1425, 22: 240a7–21), S .5665[2-13] (T no. 1425, 22: 240a24–c4), S. 5665[2-1] (T no. 1425, 22:

240c4–241a4), S. 5665[2-14] (T no. 1425, 22: 241a4–16), S. 5665[2-8] (T no.

1425, 22: 243a5–28), S. 5665[2-9] (T no. 1425, 22: 243b3–c5), S. 5665[2-10]

(T no. 1425, 22: 243c9–244a12), S. 5665[2-11] (T no. 1425, 22: 244a12–b15),

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there are three fragments of the *Mahāsāṃghika-bhikṣuṇī-prā- timokṣa-sūtra.20

Although there are no colophons to rolls 2280–2282 of the Matsuo shrine canon, these comprise the three chapters of Faxian’s translation of the non-Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra.21 Also without colophons, rolls 3417–3419 are together in a designated sec- tion for biographies of three Chinese eminent monks who searched

Dx197 (T no. 1425, 22: 244c22–245b2), Dх199 (T no. 1425, 22: 245b2–c6), Dх198 (T no. 1425, 22: 245c7–19), S. 5665[2-7] (T no. 1425, 22: 248a28–

b26), S. 5665[2-6] (T no. 1425, 22: 248b29–c29), S. 5665[2-12] (T no. 1425, 22: 249a7–16), S. 5665[2-4] (T no. 1425, 22: 249b5–b19), S. 5665[2-15] (T no.

1425, 22: 249b21–c7), S. 5766[5] (T no. 1425, 22: 250c2–15), S. 5766[4] (T no.

1425, 22: 250c18–251a2), S. 5766[12] (T no. 1425, 22: 251a5–18), S. 5766[13]

(T no. 1425, 22: 251a18–b5), S. 5766[10] (T no. 1425, 22: 251b7–19), P. tib.

1073V (T no. 1425, 22: 262a17–b16), BD5274 (T no. 1425, 22: 264a17–c15), BD11562 (T no. 1425, 22: 264c11–c19), BD10137 (T no. 1425, 22: 264c19–

26), BD11752 (T no. 1425, 22: 265b18–c9), BD10386 (T no. 1425, 22: 265c22–

23), BD9854 (T no. 1425, 22: 265c24–266a7), Zhejiang no.136 (T no. 1425, 22:

266a6–19), Zhejiang-no.137 (T no. 1425, 22: 266a19–b1), BD2481 (T no. 1425, 22: 266b21–c19), BD7649 (T no. 1425, 22: 266c19–267a26), BD10859 (T no.

1425, 22: 267a26-b1), BD12035 (T no. 1425, 22: 267b9–16), BD9687 (T no.

1425, 22: 267b26–c11), BD10439 (T no. 1425, 22: 268a8–12), Zhejiang no.66 (T no. 1425, 22: 268a12–27), P. 3996 (T no. 1425, 22: 268a26–b15), BD11120 (T no. 1425, 22: 268b14–20), Dх2602A2 (T no. 1425, 22: 268c25–269a7), Dх2602A1 (T no. 1425, 22: 269a8–29), BD3068 (T no. 1425, 22: 269b28–

270c24), Dх3938 (T no. 1425, 22: 282c8–283a17), Dх5484 (T no. 1425, 22:

283a17-b29), BD1345V3 (T no. 1425, 22: 285b2–286a21), Guohui-no.32(47)-2 (T no. 1425, 22: 304a19–306b16), S. 2818 (T no. 1425, 22: 320b24–324b24), Dх2728[1] (T no. 1425, 22: 335a8–b10), Dх2728[2] (T no. 1425, 22: 360a8–

16), Dх2728[3] (T no. 1425, 22: 369b15–23), Dх5214 (T no. 1425, 22: 378b29–

c23), BD14569 (T no. 1425, 22: 452a5–460a29).

20 Kokusai bukkyōgaku daigakuindaigaku fuzokutoshokan, 106: BD10695 [T no. 1427, 22: 556b20–28], BD14930 [T no. 1427, 22: 556a21–565a20], and BD11486 [T no. 1427, 22: 556b28–c8].

21 Nakao and Myōrenji, eds., ‘Matsuosha issaikyō’, 426–29.

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for the Dharma (guhō kōsōtō): Yijing’s Biographies of Eminent Monks who Searched for the Dharma in the Western Regions (Z no. 1193, T no. 2066, rolls 3417–3418) comes first, followed by Faxian zhuan (3419).22

Rolls 1176–1181 of the Matsuo shrine canon provide much more information about when and where these manuscripts were copied.

What seems incongruous is that the first three rolls (1176–1178) of Faxian’s Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra were copied from an original manuscript, which was probably in a private library that belonged to the abbot of a small cloister (Tōrinbō 東林房) at Higashidani in Saitōin of Enryakuji 延暦寺西塔院東谷 on Mount Hiei 比叡山. There is no copy date, but Gonkaku 厳覚 (1056–1121) checked this edition when he either copied these rolls for Matsuo shrine or for his own monastic library at Miidera 三井寺 (alt. Onjōji

園城寺). Since 1115.6.123 is the earliest date we have for colophons on other rolls in the Matsuo shrine canon, it appears that this is the right Miidera monastic that could have copied Faxian’s translation of the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra to vow to the kami of Matsuo shrine. However it is curious why Gonkaku would have copied a manuscript on behalf of Matsuo shrine from an assumed scriptorium up on Mount Hiei, where warrior monks (sōhei 僧兵) literally beat or killed their Tendai rivals.24 Sōjun 相順 (alt. Shōjun), who may have been another Miidera monastic or perhaps an Enryakuji monk, copied rolls four to six (1179–1181) of the Mahāyāna Mahāpari- nirvāṇa-sūtra from an original [once] held by Seiryūji 青竜寺 at Kita- Kurodani 北黒谷 in Saitōin of Enryakuji on Mount Hiei 比叡山.25

22 Nakao and Myōrenji, eds., ‘Matsuosha issaikyō’, 370.

23 All dates in this format are to the Lunisolar calendar and not the Gregorian calendar.

24 Gonkaku, in Nihon jinmei daijiten. It appears that Gonkaku was a prom- inent disciple of Gyōson 行尊 (1055–1135), a famous exegete and esoteric Bud- dhist ritual master from Miidera. On Miidera-Enryakuji struggles, see, Adolph- son, Teeth and Claws of the Buddha, and Keyworth, ‘Apocryphal Chinese books’, 16–17 and Appendix 1.

25 Nakao and Myōrenji, eds., ‘Matsuosha issaikyō’, 238 with notes 395–400.

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The other three primary translations attributed to Faxian include the Kṣudraka-sūtra (Foshuo zazang jing 仏説雑藏経, Z no. 884, T no. 745); *Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya (Mohe sengqi lü 摩訶僧祇律, Z no. 1008, T no. 1425) in forty rolls; and *Mahāsāṃghika-bhikṣuṇī- prātimokṣa-sūtra (Mohe sengqi biqiuni jieben 摩訶僧祇比丘尼戒本, Z no. 1017, T no. 1427). Roll 2363 in the Matsuo shrine canon is the Kṣudraka-sūtra, rolls 2565–2599 are the Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya, and roll 2714 is the Mahāsāṃghika-bhikṣuṇī-prātimokṣa-sūtra.26 There are no colophons for any of these rolls. Perhaps this is not unforeseen either because these scriptures belonged to a shrine-tem- ple complex where we cannot presume that strict adherence to the [Indian] monastic codes was especially relevant to married shrine priests or their aristocratic kin, or because the bulk of the Matsuo shrine canon seems to have been copied by and from Tendai libraries affiliated with either Miidera and the Tendai Jimon 寺門派 (Temple) or Mountain (Sanmon-ha 山門派) branch up on Mount Hiei within the massive monastic complex of Enryakuji.

Nara versus Tendai: exegetes versus pilgrims-ritual masters

According to traditional Japanese narratives about Heian-era (794–1185) religion, politics, and institutional history, after Kūkai 空海 (774–835) and Saichō 最澄 (767–822) returned from pilgrimages to China in search of the dharma in the early ninth century, the religious context for Buddhism in the archipelago was altered forevermore. Even though we now know that it was their disciples who followed in their footsteps—and revered Chinese pilgrims to India—and ventured to the continent in search of sacred Buddhist texts and ritual manuals to find a corpus of highly unified esoteric or tantric texts and rituals translated under the direction of three translators, Śubhakarasiṃha 善無畏 (in China 719–735),

26 The Matsuo shrine canon has rolls 2–6 (2565–2569), 8–20 (2570–2582), 22–29 (2583–2590), 31–37 (2591–2597), and 39–40 (2598–2599) of the Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya.

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Vajrabodhi 金剛智 (662–732), and Amoghavajra [Jin’gang 金剛] Bukong 不空 (705–774), rather than either Kūkai or Saichō, who actually introduced esoteric Buddhism to Japan, there seems to be little question that the institutions of Tōji 東寺 (formally Kyōōgokuji

教護国寺), Enryakuji, and Miidera rivaled the older, seven great state-sponsored temples in Nara.27 In addition to manuscript—and printed—editions of Buddhist scriptures and commentaries held primarily by Nara temples and monasteries, pilgrims brought new editions and texts to Shingon, Tendai, and new imperially- and aristocratic family-sponsored temples and shrine-temple complexes during the ninth to twelfth centuries. On the one hand, we have the Shōgozō, which primarily preserves texts presumably significant for Buddhists in Nara, with special consideration for the communities from Tōdaiji and Kōfukuji 興福寺, as well as other Kegon- 華厳 宗 and Hossō- 法相宗 affiliated temples such as Hōryūji 法隆寺

and Kiyomizudera 清水寺 (in Kyoto). On the other hand, we have ample evidence that suggests there was a primarily Tendai sponsored canon—or set of canons—which was copied from a vowed canon held at emperor Shirakawa’s 白河 (1053–1129, r. 1073–1087) Hoss- hōji 法勝寺. Fujiwara no Tadahira 藤原忠平 (880–949) had Hosshōji converted into a temple in 925. Shirakawa unofficially ruled—rather than reigned—from this cloister after 1077.

Among the many rare books in the Shōgozō is a tenth century printed edition for Kasuga shrine (春日版) of Xuanzang’s Vijñap- timātratāsiddhi-śāstra (Z no. 734, T no. 1585) from Kōfukuji, as well as sufficient evidence about the first canon vowed (ganmon

願文) and copied in 740 under the patronage of Queen Consort Kōmyō 光明 (701–760)—the 5/1 canon (Gogatsuichinichikyō 五 月一日経)—that had 4,243 rolls.28 There appears to be scholarly

27 Strickmann and Faure, Chinese Magical Medicine, 206–07. The great seven Nara temples include: Kōfukuji 興福寺, Tōdaiji 東大寺, Saidaiji 西大寺, Yakushiji 薬師寺, Hōryūji 法隆寺, Gangōji 元興寺, and Daianji 大安寺 or Tōshō- daiji 唐招提寺 or even Hokkeji 法華寺.

28 Nara National Museum, ed., Special Exhibit, 54–56, English explanations 166. Dated colophons are from 1088, 1116, and 1119.

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consensus that this canon was, in turn, widely distributed in Japan among aristocrats, and especially by the Fujiwara family, which sponsored Kōfukuji and nearly all other Hossō temples—includ- ing Kiyomizudera—as well as Kimpusenji 金峯山寺, a Fujiwara temple affiliated with the mountain training monk tradition called shugendō 修験道.29 Coupled with the manuscripts copied, at least in part, from Hosshōji, scholars are roughly divided between two explanations for the existence of these canons. Abe Yasurō has writ- ten extensively on the notion of ritual offerings (kuyō 供養, pūjā) of either Xuanzang’s massive translation of the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sūtra or sets of ‘all the scriptures’ as part and parcel of ritual activities increasingly bolstered by an esoteric Buddhist orientation toward conferring merit on or placating all manner of autochthonous and allochthonous deities.30 Colophons from the Nanatsudera and Matsuo shrine scriptures establish that they were intended to be read or chanted in front of or for the kami (shinzen dokyō 神前読経) to alleviate natural and man-made disasters and to bolster the imperial and aristocratic clans.31

Another approach to these manuscripts is to assess their likely use by exegetes from Nara—especially Hossō monastics—and Shingon

The 5/1 canon took twelve years to complete; we have approximately 3,500 rolls from it today in the Shōgozō collection: Abe, Chūsei Nihon no shūkyō teku- suto taikei, 156. Abe suggests that it must have been this canon which was recit- ed—in part or in full—at the consecration of the state of Vairocana buddha in Tōdaiji in 752.

29 Chūsei Nihon no shūkyō tekusuto taikei, 176–77; and Nara National Museum, Special Exhibit of Ancient Sutras from the Heian Period, nos. 15–17, 168, which show that the Fujiwara clan sponsored preserving scriptures—espe- cially the Lotus Sūtra (Saddharmapuṇḍarīka-sūtra, Fahua, Hokkekyō 法華経, Z nos. 146–149, T nos. 262–264)—in so-called sūtra mounds (kyōzuka 経塚 or maikyō 埋経) in preparation for mappō 末法 in 1052.

30 Abe, Chūsei Nihon no shūkyō tekusuto taikei, 286–335.

31 Nara National Museum, Special Exhibit, images nos. 14-1 and 14-2 on pages 32–41, have the same colophon discussed in Keyworth, ‘Apocryphal Chi- nese books’, 2, to the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sūtra.

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and Tendai temples who participated in court-sponsored debates.32 While it may seem intriguing to ponder the idea of shrine-temple religious professionals or priests studying arcane treatises such as the Chengshi lun 成實論 (Tattvasiddhi-śāstra?, Z no. 1086, T no. 1646]) or Xuanzang’s translations of the Vijñaptimātratāsiddhi-śāstra or

*Abhidharmanyāyānusāra-śāstra [Saṃghabhadra] (Apidamo shun- zheng lun 阿毘達磨順正理論, Z no. 1076, T no. 1562), contextual evidence seems to support Abe’s perspective about the Nanatsud- era and Matsuo shrine scriptures. There is, however, an important caveat: Sangō and Minowa’s research clearly demonstrates that Miid- era monastics during the twelfth century were particularly successful at these debates, which suggests that the colophons from Faxian’s Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra in the Matsuo shrine scriptures may provide evidence of Jimon branch Tendai-orientated views of what was important within an issaikyō.

On pilgrims who traveled to China in search of sacred scriptures (guhō kōsō)

The sectarian world of Heian-era Japanese religion cannot, howev- er, be mapped on to any advantageous or constructive impression of continental Buddhism, even when it comes to the matter of the reception of Chinese pilgrim-monks and translators in Japan. Ac- cording to Gyōnen Daitoku 凝然大德 (1240–1321) in the Hasshū kōyō 八宗綱要 (Guiding Essentials of the Eight Sects, comp. 1268), there are eight ‘schools’ (shū) of Japanese Buddhism: (1) Kusha

倶舍 (Abhidharma); (2) Jōjitsu 成實 (Tattvasiddhi-śāstra, Z no.

1086, T no. 1646]); (3) Ritsu 律 (Vinaya); (4) Hossō (Yogācāra);

(5) Sanron 三論 (Madhyamaka; Three Treatises); (6) Tendai; (7) Kegon (Buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra, Z nos. 95–96, T nos. 278–279);

and (8) Shingon.33 Missing, of course, are the so-called ‘New Bud- dhism’ Pure Land traditions and Zen 禅宗. Often referred to by

32 Minowa and Groner, ‘The Tendai Debates’; Sango, The Halo of Golden Light and ‘Buddhist Debate’.

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scholars as the Southern Capital schools (Nantō bukkyō 南東仏教), these sects of Japanese Buddhism are different from Tendai, Shingon, Jōdoshū 浄土宗, Jōdoshinshū 浄土真宗, and the three Zen traditions (Rinzai 臨済宗, Sōtō 曹洞宗, and Ōbaku 黄檗宗) because they cannot claim to transmit orthodox lineages, and their teachings rest upon particular commentaries (śāstras) and scriptures.34 By virtue of having been founded during the Nara period, Hossō and the other Nara schools are closely connected to the eminent, aristocratic Fujiwara family, which sponsored numerous trade and diplomatic missions to the continent during the seventh to eleventh centuries.35 It is these Nara schools that presumably prompted Stanley Weinstein to pronounce that we must err on the side of caution when speaking of separate shū or zong 宗 in the history of Chinese (or continental East Asian) Buddhism:

The root of the problem lies in the word tsung, for which dictio- naries list as many as twenty-three separate definitions. In Buddhist texts, however, it is used primarily in three different senses: (1) it may indicate a specific doctrine or thesis, or a particular interpretation of a doctrine; (2) it may refer to the underlying theme, message, or teaching of a text; and (3) it may signify a religious or philosoph- ical school…Tsung in the sense of doctrine or thesis is frequently encountered in fifth-century texts in such phrases as kai-tsung [開 宗], ‘to explain the [basic] thesis’, or hsu-tsung [虛宗], ‘the doctrine of emptiness’. Especially common was the use of the term tsung to categorize doctrinal interpretations of theses enumerated in a series…

The term tsung should be translated as ‘school’ only when it refers to a tradition that traces its origin back to a founder, usually designated

‘first patriarch’, who is believed to have provided the basic spiritual

33 Bielefeldt, ‘Kokan Shiren’, especially 305. On the Hasshū kōyō, see Pruden,

‘Hasshu koyo’. The best translation of the Hasshū kōyō is Kamata, ‘Chūgoku bukkyōshi jiten’.

34 For just one example, see Sueki, Shimoda, and Horiuchi, eds., Bukkyō no jiten, 113–17.

35 Grapard, Protocol of the Gods and ‘Institution, Ritual, and Ideology’.

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insights that were then transmitted through an unbroken line of successors or ‘Dharma heirs’.36

Whether or not Xuanzang actually translated the seventy-seven treatises or sūtras A. C. Muller culled from Louis Lancaster’s cat- alog, The Korean Buddhist Canon, it seems to be his status as the preeminent translator-pilgrim that was buttressed in Japan in Nara at Kōfukuji via lavish patronage from the Fujiwara family.37 Until the editors of the Taishō made several rather peculiar amendments to the order of all manner of texts in the East Asian Buddhist canon, including moving the so-called Āgama 阿含部 (T nos. 1–151, vols.

1–2) and Jātaka 本緣部 (T nos. 152–219, vols. 3–4) sections from the middle to the front of the canon, Xuanzang’s translation of the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sūtra (Mahāprajñāpāramitā-sūtra, Dabore boluomiduo jing, Daihannya haramittakyō 大般若波羅蜜多 經, Z no. 1, T no. 220) came first.38 Perhaps because it was the first and longest Mahāyāna Buddhist scripture or because it explicitly says to do so, this scripture was widely copied and distributed for merit-making and to prevent natural disasters or subdue a wide range of Indian and East Asian deities.39 Several scholars, including Sagai Tatsuru, see the merit-making activities connected to proliferating Xuanzang’s translation of the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sūtra as the likely basis for large-scale coping projects of all the scriptures (issaikyō 一切経) in Nara Japan that led to the production of the

36 Weinstein, ‘Chinese Buddhism’, Vol. 2, 482–84.

37 http://www.acmuller.net/yogacara/thinkers/xuanzang-works.html, accessed March, 2019. Cf., Lancaster and Park, The Korean Buddhist Canon.

38 The most insightful and succinct account of Chinese Buddhist canons and catalogs is in Sueki Fumihiko, Shimoda Masahiro, and Horiuchi Shinji, Bukkyō no jiten, 44–46. See also the essays in Wu and Chia, eds., Spreading Buddha’s Word.

39 On examples from medieval Japan, see Keyworth, ‘Apocryphal Chinese books’, 15. Just one example of how popular the Mahāprajñāpāramitā-sūtra in 600 rolls was elsewhere in East Asia during the premodern period can be glimpsed from the translation into Tangut: Huang, Zhongguo guojia.

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Matsuo shrine, Nanatsudera, and six other extant old Japanese canons we have access to today.40

What is clear from the intricate history Abe Yasurō, Sagai Tatsuru, and Bryan Lowe provide of the early history of copying the canon and the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sūtra in eighth to tenth century Japan is that Kōfukuji played an essential role—as did Hōryūji, another Hossō affiliated, legendary temple—in the dissemination of scriptures in premodern Japan. An example discussed previously is the tenth century Kasuga [shrine] printed edition of Xuanzang’s Vijñaptimātratāsiddhi-śāstra from Kōfukuji which demonstrates the extent to which it appears that Xuanzang’s ‘lineage’ or ‘school’

disseminated his teachings in Nara. Unlike especially the Tendai and Shingon traditions during the ninth to twelfth centuries especially, the institutions that produced our old manuscript canons, the Hossō tradition did not celebrate a lineage of patriarchs that connected them to nor necessitated a pressing need for paying close attention to the ideal of pilgrims who traveled to China in search of sacred scriptures (guhō kōsō). The need to construct a Hossō patriarchate would only develop centuries later. From the additional perspective of translation in Japan, there is another reason why Xuanzang stands

40 Sagai, Shinbutsu shūgō. On the history of these canons, see Abe, Chūsei Nihon no shūkyō tekusuto taikei, 174–85. Lowe, ‘Contingent and Contested’, especially 228. Alternative evidence exists from Shiga prefecture, where Prince Nagaya 長屋王 (680–729) sponsored the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sūtra be- tween 712–728, which appear to have been copied from scriptures once held in the Fujiwara capital 藤原京 (694–710). See Iwamoto, ‘Nagaya no ōkimi hot- sugankyō (zō wadō kyō) denraikō’; see also Abe, above. Funayama, Butten wa dou kanyaku sareta no ka, 11–12 makes an important distinction between the East Asian Buddhist terms meaning ‘all the collected scriptures’ (yiqie jing, is- saikyō), which he posits can be traced to the Taihe 太和 [3] reign period (ca. 479) of the Northern Wei dynasty (386–534) and in use during the Northern and Southern Dynasties period (420–589), ‘collected scriptures’ (zhongjing, shukyō 衆經), used more prominently in southern China from the mid-sixth century on, and ‘canon’ [referring to the tripiṭaka] (da zangjing, daizōkyō), which was ap- plied by the Tang (618–907) government.

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alone: he initiated a ‘new’ system of translating Sanskrit into Chinese (shinyaku 新訳 versus kuyaku 旧訳) with phonetic changes such as sanmodi (sanmaji) 三摩地, rather than sanmei (sanmai) 三昧, for samādhi. By extension, Xuanzang inaugurated a new period in the history of Chinese Buddhist translation; whereas Faxian—with his part-time collaborator Buddhabhadra 仏駄跋陀羅 (alt. 佛陀跋陀羅, 359–429) in Jiankang 建康—exemplifies ‘old’ translations. It would be a gross distortion of the historical records to suggest that either Xuanzang’s so-called ‘new’ translations were more popular than

‘older’ texts.

During the Nara period, many Hossō and Sanron monks made the perilous voyage to China in search of sacred scriptures—and perhaps teachers like Xuanzang. Here is a short list of some of these monks:

1. Dōji 道慈 (?–744, Sanron monk): Taihō 大宝 2.6 (702)–Yōrō

養老 2.10 (718), in China 17 years.

2. Bensei 弁正 (d.u.): Taihō 2.6 (702)–?? Poet-monk in China.

3. Genbō (?–746, Hossō monk): Yōrō 養老 1.3 (717)–Tenpyō

天平 5.4 (733), in China 18 years.

4. Eiei or Yōei 栄叡 (?–749, Kōfukuji monk): Tenpyō 5.4 (733)–

died in China; in China 16 years. Met Ganjin 鑑真 (Jianzhen, 688–763) in China.

5. Fushō 普照 (d.u., Kōfukuji monk): Tenpyō 5.4 (733)–Tenpyō shōhō 天平勝宝 6 (754), in China 21 years. Met Ganjin in China after 10 years.

6. Genrō 玄郎 (d.u., Kōfukuji monk): Tenpyō 5.4 (733)–

Tenpyō 14 (742/743) returned to Japan.

7. Genhō 玄法 (d.u., Kōfukuji monk): Tenpyō 5.4 (733)–

Tenpyō 14 (742/743) returned to Japan.

It would appear that not long after the capital was moved to Kyoto, in 794, however, we see another category of pilgrims who traveled to China in search of sacred scriptures. These ten are the most famous, and have everything to do with why we saw that the texts that cele- brate Xuanzang do not seem to have been as admired at Matsuo or Nanatsudera as the texts which commemorate either Faxian or Yijing.

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1. Saichō (767–822): Enryaku 延暦 23.7 (804.7)–Daidō 大同 1.6 (805.6). Traveled to Tiantaishan 天台山; in China 1 year.

2. Kūkai (774–835): Enryaku 23.7 (804.7)–Daidō 1.10 (806.10). Traveled to Chang’an, in China 2 years.

3. Ennin 圓仁 (794–864): Jōwa 承和 5 (838.6.17)–Jōwa 14 (847.9.18). Traveled to Tiantaishan and Wutaishan 五臺山; in China 9 years and 4 months.41

4. Enchin 圓珍 (814–891): Ninju 仁寿 3 (853.7.15)–Tennan 天 安 1 (858.6.22). In China 4 years and 4 months.

5. Shūei 宗叡 (809–884, Shingon monk): Jōgan 貞観 4 (862)–

Jōgan 7 (865). Traveled to Wutaishan and Bianzhou 汴州. 6. Chōnen 奝然 (938–1016, Shingon monk): Eikan 永観 1

(983)–Kanna 寛和 2 (986). Traveled to Tiantaishan, Wutais- han, and the Song capital of Bianjing 汴京. Raised funds for restoration of Tōdaiji. See Nittōki 入唐記.

7. Nichien 日延 (d.u., Tendai 天台宗 monk): Tenryaku 天暦

7 (953)–Tentoku 天徳 1 (957). Visited Wuyue Kingdom

吳越國 (907–978) under Qian Chu 錢俶 (r. 947–978);

witnessed dissemination of Baoqieyin ta 寶篋印塔 stūpas (J.

Hōkyōinntō, Sarvatathāgatadhiṣṭhāna-hṛdayaguhyadhātu karaṇḍamudrā-dhāraṇī, T nos. 1022a, 2023) .

8. Jakushō 寂照 (962–1034, Tendai monk): Chōtoku 長徳 5 (1003)–died in China. Secular name Ōe no Sadamoto 大江定 基. See Raitō nikki 来唐日記.

9. Jōjin 成尋 (1011–1081): Enkyū 延久 4 (1072)–died in China.

See San Tendai Godai san ki 參天臺五臺山記.

10. Kaikaku 戒覚 (d.u., Tendai monk): (1082)–??. On Yuanfeng 5 (1082) 9.18 at Wutaishan.42

The narrative of what Kūkai may—or may not—have personally acquired in terms of texts, teachings, and ritual technology is well beyond the scope of this study.43 Almost all the other pilgrims

41 Cf. Nittō guhō junrei gyōki 入唐求法巡礼行記.

42 See Tosōki 渡宋記.

43 See Abé, The Weaving of Mantra; ‘Scholasticism, Exegesis, and Ritual Practice’.

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speak to the tradition(s) of Buddhism best represented by the con- tents of the Matsuo shrine canon and, by extension, the Nanatsud- era canon as well.

There are two Tendai lineages that trace back to two pilgrims:

Ennin and Enchin. Ennin’s diary, Record of a Pilgrimage to Tang China in Search of the Dharma (Nittō guhō junrei gyōki 入唐求法 巡礼行記), became a guide for later pilgrims, including Jōjin, whose diary may be even more valuable for the study of Buddhism in China than Ennin’s.44 Enchin’s (Chishō daishi 智証大師), diary, of sorts, is Gyōrekisho 行歴抄.45 Both are, therefore, examples of pilgrims who ventured to the continent in search of the Dharma, and returned to Japan to establish—through their immediate disciples—distinctive lineages of East Asian Buddhism. When a dispute arose over the selection of Enchin as the fifth chief abbot (zasu 座主) of Enryakuji in 873, Ennin’s followers protested, and subsequently Enchin and his supporters fled down the mountain to Miidera, where they established the Tendai Jimon 寺門派 (Temple).46 Ennin’s followers established the Mountain (Sanmon-ha 山門派) branch of the Tendai tradition of Japanese Buddhism, which led to centuries of strife be- tween these two armed factions.

Perhaps because of this monastic violence, the Tendai tradition is severely underrepresented in contemporary research on Japanese reli- gion both in Japan and beyond. Even though we have a comparatively clear picture of the institutional history of Nara Buddhist schools and of the Shingon tradition during the medieval period, the Matsuo and Nanatsudera canons suggest that without greater attention to the tex- tual history of the Tendai traditions we might continue to possess an

44 Reischauer, Ennin’s Diary. On Jōjin, see Borgen, ‘San Tendai Godai san ki’;

‘Jōjin’s Travels from Center to Center’; and ‘The Case of the Plagaristic Journal’.

45 Gyōrekisho in NBZ vol. 72, no. 572, 188–92.

46 Itō, ed., Matsuno’o taisha no shin’ei, 56–57, and 84–85. Still perhaps the most comprehensive study of Onjōji and Enchin is Miyagi Nobumasa and Ten- daishū Jimon-ha Goonki Jimukyoku, Onjōji no kenkyū. A more readily available yet brief discussion of Enchin’s travels in China can be found in Yoritomi Moto- hiro, Nicchū o musunda bukkyōsō, 149–60.

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incomplete understanding of not only medieval Japanese Buddhism, but also of East Asian Buddhist texts and the transmission of them.

Until I encountered the manuscript Buddhist canon held by Matsuo shrine in Kyoto, Japan, which was copied during the twelfth century and kept on site until the mid-nineteenth century in a building called the Godokyōjo 御読経所, I had never seen, nor even imagined, that anyone in East Asia vowed so-called Little Vehicle 小 乗部 (Hīnayāna), Śravakayāna, or non-Mahāyāna treatises. Yet the Ekottarāgama (Zengyi ahan jing 增一阿含經, Z no. 770, T no. 125) with fifty-one rolls and Saṃyuktāgama (Za ahan jing 雜阿含經, Z no. 771, T no. 99) with fifty rolls were vowed by chief shrine priest (kannushi) Hata no Yorichika 秦頼義 to the kami at Matsuo shrine on 1138.5.29–7.1 and 1138.5.30–7.8, respectively. Xuanzang’s trans- lation of the *Abhidharmanyāyānusāra-śāstra in eighty rolls was vowed to the canon in the eleventh month of 1141 by Ryōkei 良慶, the abbot of Myōhōji 妙法寺, a temple in the southern valley of the shrine-temple precincts, and later vowed and added more scriptures between 1159 and 1165.47

Analysis and Context: Looking at history from an inverted chronological perspective

The value of manuscripts is that they were not carefully selected and organized to present an idealized image of a tradition. Historians of East Asian Buddhism follow the great European Sinologists—many of whom translated the biographies or hagiographies of Faxian, Xuan- zang, and Yijing—by carefully studying printed editions of Buddhist texts 版本學. If we seek to investigate communities who copied this literature for express purposes such as vowing an entire canon for the

47 Keyworth, ‘Apocryphal Chinese books’, 7, 18. Rolls 2176–2221 (colo- phons 892–916) are from the Ekottarāgama (Z no. 770, T no. 125); rolls 2222–

2262 (colophons 917–941) are from the Saṃyuktāgama (Z no. 771, T no. 99);

and rolls 3046–3117 (colophons 1065–1132). See Nakao and Myōrenji, ‘Matsu- osha issaikyō’, 263–67, 275–81.

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protection—or sublimation—of particular deities, whether these are considered Indian, Chinese, Japanese, or even Korean in the case of the kami enshrined at Matsuo, then manuscripts like the ones we ex- amined here can provide information that may not make much sense.

Why, for example, did Hata no Yorichika vow the Ekottarāgama, Saṃyuktāgama, or Xuanzang’s translation of the *Abhidhar- manyāyānusāra-śāstra? This was possibly because it was important for the Hata clan to sustain the comprehensiveness of the canon preserved on site within the Godokyōjo. In that case, what happened to the Huili and Yancong’s biography of Xuanzang? Why are this and Record of a Journey to the Western Regions not in the canon as we have it today? Perhaps the hypothesis this paper provides is an inverted one:

I suspect that these texts are not missing because of excessive use or tendoku 転読 practice, in which they recited only key passages from the beginning, middle, and end of a chapter or perhaps only titles.

There is a clue to this and several of the other questions I raised in a colophon to rolls twenty-nine and thirty of the Zhenyuan lu, which shows that the seven-hall temple of Mount Tōen (Tōenzan Nanatsudera 稲園山七寺), a Chizan Shingonshū 智山真言宗 temple today, was part of Atsuta jingūji when governor of Owari 尾張

county, Ōnakatomi no Yasunaga 大中臣安長, vowed more than 300 rolls between 1175–1178; the work was interrupted in 1180.48 The colophon reveals that the copyist or scribe checked with manuscripts from Fushimi [Inari shrine] 伏見稲荷大社 (in red to the left), Bon- shakuji 盆釈寺 (a Tendai scriptorium, with a black circle), and Hoss- hōji (in red and to the right), which was significantly enlarged and supported by Emperor Shirakawa in 1077.49 These collation notes are

48 Ochiai, Girard, and Kuo, ‘Découverte de manuscrits bouddhiques chinois au Japon’, 370. Please note that the Kongōji canon was also apparently vowed to the daimyōjin of a chinjusha of Mount Kōya: Kōyasan Tennomiya 高野山天野 . See rolls 003–33, 0073–001 (Z no. 73), 411–001, 411–001, 514–001 as ex- amples in Ochiai, ed., Kongōji issaikyō.

49 Makita et al., eds., Chūgoku senjutsu kyōten, 441, 59–65; Akao Eikei,

‘Koshakyō’, 797–809. Cf. Miyabayashi and Ochiai, ‘Nanatsudera’, 116 also notes that the catalog from Kiyomizudera of these rolls was checked.

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an important discovery that connects the Nanatsudera and Matsuo canons: these rolls of the Zhenyuan lu were vowed to fifteen avatāras or manifestations (gongen 権現) of the principal kami of Atsuta, Yatsurugi no daimyōjin 八剱大明神, at sites including the Naikū and Gekū 内外宮 of Ise 伊勢神宮, three sites at Kumano 熊野本宮大社

(Hongū 本宮, Shingū 新宮, Nachi 那智), the three sages of Hiyoshi

日吉社 (shrine on Mount Hiei), and Tsushima 津島, and Nangū 南 宮 shrines in the Owari region (Aichi prefecture). Both Nanatsudera and Matsuo canons were apparently copied for kami tied to the im- perial lineage or centers of ritual power. It would appear that either the priests or monks at these shrine-temple complexes were not as en- thralled with Xuanzang as they were with Faxian and Yijing, or that Xuanzang was seen as more of an eminent translator than he was an exemplary pilgrim who went on a quest in search of sacred scriptures.

I argued in this paper that one of the reasons we are unable to clearly see this perspective is because the editors of the Taishō made some peculiar editing decisions. For instance, they separate the biographies of these three eminent pilgrims. Perhaps, as Max Deeg, among others, has shown, it may very well have been a keen, Protes- tant—and Counter-Reformation—obsession with the origins of all things, and especially religion, that drove the pronounced interest in translating Faxian’s autobiography in nineteenth to twentieth centu- ry Europe.50 Despite the many ways Chinese and Japanese Buddhists emulated key aspects of what Gregory Schopen called Protestant presuppositions in the study and practice of Buddhism during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to the best of my knowledge, there was no countervailing emphasis on Faxian in East Asia.51 Rather, unlike in European language studies of East Asian Buddhism, which I contend Arthur Waley’s masterful The Read Tripitaka surely is, we tended to abide by demarcated periodization schemes (panjiao 判教, for example) and see beyond the order of the canons, whether printed editions, manuscript canons, or fragments

50 Deeg, ‘Has Xuanzang really been in Mathurā?’; Das Gaoseng-Faxian- Zhuan, 51.

51 Schopen, ‘Archaeology’.

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in a hidden abandoned library, to restrict the perspectives through which we examine the agents who transmitted these sacred texts through the ages.

Part of the problem may not have much to do with Faxian, Xu- anzang, or Yijing in terms of either their status as eminent monk-pil- grims or even as translators, but instead may have to do with the con- cept of legacy. The Oxford English Dictionary gives us several ways to think about legacy. Etymologically derived from French or Latin, when used as a noun, a legacy refers to a body of delegates or legates or even papal legates (as in on behalf of the Roman Catholic Pope) who are sent in legacy of an authority or authoritative group to speak in an official capacity with other legates, delegates, and so on.52 It is difficult to conceive of any two Chinese Buddhist monastics other than Xuanzang and Faxian who posthumously played such a pivotal role as, for example, spreading the teachings of Buddhism to Japan or Korea. The word ‘spread’ brings me to another meaning of the word legacy: the act or action of bequeathing. With connotations that complement the English word ‘bequeath’ in terms of inheritance after the death of a family member, in Mandarin Chinese we might opt for the term yizeng 遺贈 to translate bequeath. Yet in Japanese, the verb tsutaeru 伝える circles back to the crucial post-mortem role Yijing, Xuanzang, and Faxian played in the transmission of Bud- dhism. Buttressed as the penultimate Chinese eminent monk within multiple narratives of transmission, it is what Faxian transmitted or, more importantly, what he and especially Xuanzang, but also Yijing, are understood to have transmitted long after they deceased which seems to have determined their status within the history of East Asian Buddhism.

Perhaps it is time for scholars who investigate the history of East Asian Buddhism—and particularly the literary corpus we rather audaciously refer to in English as the Buddhist canon or da zangjing

大藏經 (lit. great storehouse of scriptures or classics) in Chinese—to pay more attention to one of the more pressing questions posed by

52 ‘Legacy’ in OED, third ed., 2016: http://www.oed.com/view/En- try/107006?rskey=j23SzI&result=1#eid, accessed February 2019.

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our colleagues who work in the field of Jewish and Christian studies:

is it vituperative to refer to the canonical collection of Jewish scrip- tures in Biblical Hebrew with some Aramaic, the Tanak (Tanakh), as the Old Testament? Should we, instead, refer to it as the Hebrew Bible? ‘Old Testament’ suggests that there must be a corresponding New Testament, and mistakenly implies that the Jewish Tanak is the same thing as the Christian Old Testament and is therefore ob- solete. Whereas the Tanak consists of twenty-four books (Pentateuch [Torah], Nevi’im, and Ketuvim), the Catholic, Anglican, and Ortho- dox Christian Old Testaments, for example, include additional books considered apocryphal, deuterocanonical, or as pseudepigrapha (e.g., Judith, Baruch, Wisdom of Solomon, Maccabees, Enoch, etc.), which are not part of the Hebrew Bible, and yet were preserved in the Septuagint (Greek translation of an early Hebrew Bible). Different vocabularies, punctuation, canonical order, and emphases separate Masoretic manuscripts from the Vulgate and later derivatives. Fur- thermore, can there be a New Testament without an Old Testament, out of which, presumably, we can trace the legacy and multiple narratives of a singular Judeo-Christian tradition? What may be most important for specialists in the study of East Asian religions to bear in mind is what J. Z. Smith refers to as ‘the relative economy of the library (bibliotheca)’ that stimulates these deliberations: ‘One thinks, by way of contrast, of the Ming Daoist canon with its 1607 supple- ment, which contains 1,487 separate texts, or the already noted Chi- nese Buddhist Canon (84,000), and distinctive Tibetan collections totaling 4,681 titles’.53 Smith cites Lewis Lancaster on the contents of the Tibetan bKa’ ’gyur and the bsTan ’gyur, and Nanjō Bunyū 南 条文雄 (1849–1927) and Friedrich Max Müller (1823–1900) for the

‘84,000’ texts in the Chinese Buddhist canon.54 Just because there are many more sacred books in the various Buddhist canons than in, for

53 Smith, ‘Religion and Bible’, especially 17.

54 Smith cites Lancaster, ‘Buddhist Literature’; see also ‘Editing Buddhist Texts’ on the Tibetan canon. For the Chinese, he cites Müller, Introduction to the Science of Religion, 114, note 10 and suggests that the brochure, English Trans- lation Project, 2, corroborates the claim of 84,000 texts. 84,000 far exceeds the

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example, the Tanak (Tanakh) or the Bible, this does not mean that the order of the books is any less significant for Buddhists than it is for Jews or Christians. Whether in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, German, or English, Genesis comes first in both the Tanak and the Bible, and it appears to have been this way for a long, long time. Per- haps the same can be said for the order of the East Asian Buddhist canon(s), which warrant further scrutiny.

Jerome (347–420), who translated the Septuagint from Greek into Latin, the Vulgate, was a contemporary of Faxian. Like Jerome, Faxian’s notoriety appears to be eclipsed by posterity. Nearly all signs point to the fact that he was surpassed in almost every conceivable way by Xuanzang. Whereas Faxian spent only slightly less time away on his quest than Xuanzang did (399–412 or 413 versus 629–645), the 1335 rolls of seventy-five different titles that Xuanzang translated from Sanskrit manuscripts seems to have cemented his preeminence.

Yet when we look more closely at manuscripts in whose hands we can determine the context for their production and several plausible uses, some of which are almost certainly religious, it may very well have been Faxian’s status as a pilgrim, first and foremost, that inspired medieval Japanese as much or more than Yijing or Xuanzang.

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BD Dunhuang Baozang 敦煌寶藏. See Bibliography, Sources, Dunhuang Baozang.

Dx. or F. Dunhuang manuscript collection at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of [дx and ф] Oriental

Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. Facsimile ed.

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ca. 268–232 BCE) is said to have had built.

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See Bibliography, Sources, Dunhuang manuscript collection.

NBZ Dai Nihon bukkyō zensho 大日本佛教全書. See Bibliography, Sources, Dai Nihon bukkyō zensho.

P. Pelliot collection of Dunhuang manuscripts. See Bibliography, Sources, Pelliot collection of Dunhuang manuscripts.

S. Stein collection of Dunhuang Manuscripts. See Bibliography, Sources, Stein collection of Dunhuang Manuscripts.

T Taishō shinshū daizōkyō 大正新脩大蔵経. See Bibliography, Sources, Takakusu and Watanabe, eds.

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