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Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies 7.1 (2024): 240–255; https://dx.doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.07.01.07
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Buddhism and Science, Transmission of Buddhism: Locality and Globality)
The Tangut Versions of the Zhonghua chuan xindi chanmen shizi chengxi tu by Guifeng Zongmi
Kiril SOLONIN
Renmin University of China
Abstract: The paper deals with the issue of transmission of the Chan Chart, i.e. Zhonghua chuan xindi chanmen shizi chengxi tu 中華傳心地禪門師資承襲圖 in the Tangut state. Comparing the Tangut translation of the text with the existing versions of the text, we conclude that the Tangut translation was based on the Liao version of the text. This is in tenor with the general framework of Sinitic Buddhism in Xixia, which belonged to the same mainstream as Buddhism in the Liao.
Keywords: Xixia, Liao, Chan Chart, Zongmi, Chan Buddhism
About the Author: Kirill Solonin earned his doctorate from St. Petersburg University. Since the early 1990s, he was working on the issues of the Tangut language, and Tangut and Sino-Tibetan Buddhism. He worked in several institutions in Russia, Germany, USA and China. He is currently a professor in the School of Chinese Classics at Renmin University of China.
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