大佛頂如來密因修證了義諸菩薩萬行首楞嚴經

The Sūtra on the Śūraṅgama Mantra spoken from the Crown of the Great Buddha's Head on the Hidden Basis of the Tathagata's Myriad Bodhisattva Practices that lead to the realization of the Ultimate Meaning.

The Śūraṅgama Sūtra

唐 般剌蜜帝譯

Translated from the Chinese version of Pāramiti, 705 AD

DESCRIPTION

The Śūraṅgama Sūtra 首楞嚴經 (‘Indestructible’) is an enigmatic sutra that has been especially influential on Korean and Chinese Buddhism. It is a sutra in ten scrolls and, according to tradition, was translated in 705 AD by an unknown Indian bhikṣu Po-la-mi-ti (which perhaps can be reconstructed as "Paramiti") and others, and then polished and edited by Empress Wu Tzu-t'ien's recently banished minister Fang Yung. The Śūraṅgama Sūtra (T. 945) is not to be confused with the similarly titled Śūraṅgama Samadhi Sutra 首楞嚴三昧經 (T. 642). a much earlier Mahayana Buddhist text.

TRANSLATIONS

A complete English translation of this sutra was made by the Buddhist Text Translation Society, first published in an eight-volume edition between 1977 and 1986, including extensive commentary by Master Hsuan Hua. A revised edition of this translation was published between 2000 and 2005. The first partial translation into English, of only the first four of the ten rolls, was made by Samuel Beal in 1871, included in his A Catena of Buddhist Scriptures from the Chinese. A very small portion of the first roll of the Sutra was translated by Reverend Joseph Edkins as the first chapter of his Chinese Buddhism: A Volume of Sketches, Historical, Descriptive, and Critical in 1893). And in 1938, in conjunction with Bhikshu Wai-tao, Dwight Godard included a rough translation of about a third of the sutra in his A Buddhist Bible (New York: Dutton, 1938). Most of the text was translated by Lu K'uan Yü (Charles Luk) in 1966, together with an abridged translation of a commentary by Chan Master Hanshan Deqing.