The Chu sanzang jiji or ''Collected Records Concerning the Tripitaka'' (出三藏記集, T 2145) includes the earliest extant catalog of Chinese Buddhist texts. It was compiled by

Sengyou Sengyou (; 445–518 AD) was a Buddhist monk and early medieval Chinese bibliographer and noted chiefly for being the author of ''Collected Records Concerning the Tripitaka'' (出三藏記集 '' Chu sanzang ji ji'', T 2145), which includes a cata ...

of the

Liang Dynasty The Liang dynasty (), alternatively known as the Southern Liang () or Xiao Liang () in historiography, was an imperial dynasty of China and the third of the four Southern dynasties during the Northern and Southern dynasties period. It was pre ...

and finished c. 515 CE. In addition to the catalog, the Chu sanzang jiji also includes an introduction describing the translation process and its challenges, a collection of biographies of translators, and a set of prefaces to scriptures giving historical context. Sengyou's main source in the compilation of the catalog was a catalog compiled by Dao'an (312–385), which is now lost. The Chu sanzang jiji is included in Volume 55 of the Taishō Tripiṭaka in fifteen fascicles. An edition of the text by Jinren Su and Liani Xiao corrects the punctuation errors in the Taishō Tripiṭaka.

Outline

The overall outline of the text is as listed below. * Introduction - fascicle 1 * Catalog - fascicles 2–5 * Prefaces - fascicles 6–12 * Biographies - fascicles 13–15 The catalog is divided into the following categories:

Influence

The Chu sanzang jiji has been a source of information on dates and translator attribution for later catalogs and East Asian Buddhist canons. Radich states that Fei Changfang appears to used Chu sanzang jiji attribution data in his ''Records of the Three Treasuries Throughout Successive Dynasties'' (歷代三寳記; T2034) in addition his own questionable attributions. These attributions and dates have been used in the Taishō Tripiṭaka.

References

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