Forty-two Chapters of the Sutra

Japanese: 四十二章経 - しじゅうにしょうきょう

This sutra is said to have been the first Buddhist scripture to be introduced to China. It is said to have been translated by the Indian monks Kasyapa Model and Zhufolan, who first introduced Buddhism to China during the Later Han Dynasty, at the White Horse Temple in Luoyang by imperial order, but it is also thought to have actually been written in China. It provides instruction on the path of learning and daily life after leaving the monkhood. It consists of one volume and 42 chapters. *The Beginnings of Dutch Studies (1921) <Kikuchi Kan>, 8 "The 42-chapter Sanskrit translation of the sutra has finally reached the level of all the sutras today" [A Brief History of Monks - Vol. 1]

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Japanese:

仏教経典として中国に最初に伝えられたとされる経典。後漢のとき、仏教を初めて中国に伝えた中インドの僧迦葉摩騰・竺法蘭の二人が、勅命によって洛陽白馬寺で訳したといわれるが、実際には中国で撰述されたとも考えられている。出家後の学問の道と日常生活について教訓したもの。全一巻四二章から成る。※蘭学事始（1921）〈菊池寛〉八「梵訳の四十二章経も、漸く今の一切経に及べり」〔僧史略‐上〕

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