Tracing Scribal Variants and Textual Transmission: A Paleographic Approach to the Nanatsu-dera Manuscript of the Dafangguang Rulai Xingqi Weimizang Jing

• Published in: Religions (Basel, Switzerland ) Vol. 16; no. 4; p. 511
• Main Author: Lin (Jianrong Shi), Meiling
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.04.2025
• Subjects: bie sheng jing; Buddhism; Buddhist manuscripts; Criticism, Textual; Fifty-Fascicle edition of Huayan Jing; Manuscript transmission; Nanatsu-dera Manuscript; Rulai Xingqi; Textual criticism; Transmission of texts; variant characters; China; Japan
• ISSN: 2077-1444; 2077-1444
• DOI: 10.3390/rel16040511

This paper examines the Nanatsu-dera manuscript of the Dafangguang Rulai Xingqi Weimizang Jing (RXWJ) through the lens of scribal practices, with a focus on variant characters (yitizi, 異體字) and textual transmission. As a “separately produced scripture” (bie sheng jing, 別生經), the RXWJ was not include...