Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha

GPTKB entity

Statements (50)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Buddhist scripture
New Testament apocrypha
Chinese religious literature
gptkbp:associatedWith gptkb:Chinese_Buddhism
gptkbp:attributedTo anonymous authors
Chinese monks
Indian origin
gptkbp:composedIn gptkb:China
gptkbp:debatedBy Buddhist monastics
Chinese Buddhist councils
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha
gptkbp:includes gptkb:Sutra_of_the_Wise_and_the_Foolish
gptkb:Sutra_of_Perfect_Enlightenment
Sutra of the Original Vows of Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva
Sutra of the Bodhisattva Precepts
Sutra of the Heroic March
Sutra of the Three Heaps
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Chan_Buddhism
gptkb:Chinese_Buddhist_schools
gptkb:Huayan_school
gptkb:Tiantai_school
gptkbp:language gptkb:Classical_Chinese
gptkbp:preservedIn gptkb:Taisho_Tripitaka
Chinese Buddhist canon
gptkbp:producedBy gptkb:Tang_dynasty
6th century CE
5th century CE
4th century CE
gptkbp:purpose to address local Chinese concerns
to promote specific Buddhist doctrines
to supplement Indian Buddhist scriptures
gptkbp:recognizedBy gptkb:Indian_Buddhist_canon
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Tripitaka
gptkb:Mahayana_Buddhism
Chinese Buddhist canon
Buddhist apocrypha
Buddhist scriptural translation
gptkbp:sometimesCalled Yijingshu (疑經書)
forged sutras
spurious scriptures
gptkbp:studiedBy sinologists
scholars of Buddhism
gptkbp:subjectOf academic research
textual criticism
debates on authenticity
gptkbp:usedFor moral instruction
popular religious practice
ritual purposes
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Sutra_of_Forty-two_Chapters
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6