Damoduoluo chan jing
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Damoduoluo chan jing (達摩多羅禪經), of the “Dhyāna Sūtra of Dharmatrāta,” is a dhyana sutra found in the Chinese Buddhist canon. The text is attributed to the Sarvāstivāda teacher Dharmatrāta (c. fourth century CE) and translated into Chinese by Buddhabhadra in the early fifth century.[1]
- The Damoduoluo chan jing describes the transmission of the oral teachings of the Buddha from master to disciple and details the various practices of meditation (guan) such as mindfulness of breathing (S. ānāpānasmṛti; P. ānāpānasati) and meditation on the foul (aśubhabhāvanā), as well as the categories of, skandha, āyatana, and dhatu.[1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Buswell & Lopez 2014, s.v. Damoduoluo chan jing.
Sources
Buswell, Robert E.; Lopez, Donald S. (2014), The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Princeton University- Chan, Yiu-Wing (2013), An English Translation of the Dharmatrāta-Dhyāna-Sūtra (達摩多羅禪經 T15, No.618). With Annotation and a Critical Introduction, University of Hong Kong