Canonical Scriptures Catalogue (眾經目錄)

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Sui · by 法經等撰

33,117 · about 110 min

The "Catalogue of Sutras," also known as the "Fajing Catalogue," was compiled under imperial decree by the eminent monk Fajing and others during the Sui Dynasty. Completed in the fourteenth year of the Kaihuang era (594 CE), it stands as the first officially compiled sutra catalogue in the history of Chinese Buddhism. This catalogue systematically organizes the Chinese translations of Buddhist scriptures and indigenous Buddhist writings produced before the Sui Dynasty. It is divided into six sections and nine categories, encompassing 2,257 texts across 5,310 volumes. It provided rigorous classification and textual research for Buddhist literature, laying a crucial foundation for the compilation of later sutra catalogues. Holding a pioneering position in Buddhist bibliography, it remains a core and authoritative source for studying the transmission and content of Buddhist texts before the Sui Dynasty.