Shosan Jodo Busshoju-Kyo
- Date
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制作年 AD8
- Title
- ショウサンジョウドブッショウジュキョウ
- Materials, techniques and shape
- 紙本墨書
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
The Shosan Jodo Busshoju-Kyo Sutra (translated by the Chinese monk Genjo, Ch. Xuanzan or Hsuan-Tsang: 602-664) was one of the shortest Buddhist sutras. Therefore, it was a favorite among believers wanting to accumulate good deeds, for example, by copying sutras into manuscripts. From the characteristic flow and form, the exhibited manuscript was clearly made during the Nara Period (8th C.)Most fragments severed from the original manuscripts of this sutra have been handed down as exemplar editions. Almost invariably, certificates were attached to such exemplars: They read “Fragmented Taima Edition attributed to Lady Chujo (Jp. Chujo Hime). Lady Chujo was a legendary figure. She was believed to have joined the Taima-dera Temple in Yamato (today’s Nara Prefecture) and eventually became a nun. One of the most persistent legends about her is associated with the Taima Mandala, which Lady Chujo was said to have woven overnight with threads spun from the lotus.The anecdotal founding myth preserved at the Taima-dera Temple states that Lady Chujo copied and dedicated 1,000 manuscripts of the Shosan Jodo Busshoju-Kyo in 763. This proves that the association of this sutra with Lady Chujo was quite old. While many manuscripts have been handed down pasted in exemplars, the exhibited single scroll has inestimable value as the only existing complete, unfragmented handscroll.
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- Title (EN)
- Shosan Jodo Busshoju-Kyo
Physical description
- Weights and quantities
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Quantity 1巻
- Attachments
- 二重箱／畠山牛庵極札／裂帙
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