འཕགས་པ་རྒྱལ་བའ་བླ་གྲས་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.8

intro.8

Be that as it may, the doctrinal content of the Jaya­mati­paripṛcchā, including all nineteen prescriptions found among vulgate Tibetan Kangyurs, is actually contained within the much older version of Kumārajīva’s early fifth century Chinese translation of the Śūraṃgama­samādhi­sūtra, the Shoulengyan sanmei jing, 首楞嚴三昧經 (Taishō. no. 642, 15), as well as the later ninth century Tibetan translation of the Śūraṃgama­samādhi­sūtra . This intertextual relation between the Jaya­mati­paripṛcchā­sūtra and Śūraṃgama­samādhi­sūtra has not been noticed before, either by traditional Buddhist scholars or by modern Buddhist studies scholars.¹² Versions in French and English of the corresponding content are located in section 153 of Étienne Lamotte’s translation of the Śūraṃgama­samādhi­sūtra,¹³ under the title given by Lamotte, “Why and How to Practice the Heroic Progress.” Kumārajīva’s Chinese version and the Tibetan version of the Śūraṃgama­samādhi­sūtra, translated by Śākyaprabha and Ratnarakṣita, closely match the syntax and terminology found in the Tibetan version of the Jaya­mati­paripṛcchā­sūtra, despite several minor differences in wording (Apple, 2015).