A Guide to the Earliest Chinese Buddhist Translations: Texts from the Eastern Han 東漢 and Three Kingdoms 三國 Periods

Table of Contents
v~ Preface and Acknowledgements
1~ Part I: Introduction
	3~ Early Chinese Translations: Problem and Prospects
	6~ The Scope of the Present Work: ...
	9~ Translator Attributions: ...
		11~ External Evidence (1): Testimony of Scriptural Catalogues
		16~ External Evidence (2): Prefaces, Colophons, and Biographies
		17~ Internal Evidence: VOcabulary and Style
	19~ Aspects of Translation Process (1): So-called Translator
	20~ Aspects of Translation Process (2): So-called Text
		21~ Indian source-languages
		22~ Oral and written texts
		23~ Myth of the “original”
		24~ Intertextuality
		25~ Scripture as artifact
	27~ A Note on Names: First Names, Family Names, and Ethnikons
	29~ Objectives of this Study: A Briel User’s Guide
	30~ Limitations of this Study: Tasks for the Future
33~ Part II: Translations Produced During the Eastern Han Period (c. 147-220 CE)
	35~ Legendary beginnings
	38~ An Shigao
		38~ Biography
		41~ Contents of his corpus
		43~ Translation style
		44~ Authentic texts
			46~ Methodological prelimminaries: external evidence
			49~ Āgama texts
			55~ Mahāyāna Sūtra (?)
			59~ Treatises
			63~ An original composition
		64~ Neewly discovered manuscripts
		65~ Other possible attributions
		68~ Problematic texts: further methodological reflections
		71~ Lost texts
		72 Scholarly resources
	73~ Lokakṣema
		73~ Biography
		75 Contents of his corpus
		75~ Trabslation style
		76~ Authentic texts
			77~ Methodological prelimminaries (1): external evidence
			79~ Methodological prelimminaries (2): internal evidence
			80~ Core texts
			83~ Second-tier texts
			84~ Third-tier texts
		85~ Problematic or revised texts
		86~ Newly proposed attributions
		88 Lost texts
		88~ Scholarly resources
	89~ An Xuan and Yan Fatiao
		89~ Biography
		90~ Contents of their corpus
		91~ Translation style
		92~ Authentic texts
			92~ Methodological prelimminaries: external/internal evidence
			93 A Mahāyāna Sūtra
			93 Preface to a lost composition
		93~ Lost texts
		94 Scholarly resources
	94~ Zhi Yao
		94~ Biography
		95 Contents of his corpus
		95 Translation style
		95~ Authentic texts
			96~ Methodological prelimminaries (1): external evidence
			98~ Methodological prelimminaries (2): internal evidence
			100 A Mahāyāna sūtra (?)
		100~ Problematic texts: a methodological afterword
		102 Lost texts
		102 Scholarly resources
	102~ Kang Mengxiang
		102~ Biography
		103 Contents of his corpus
		103~ Translation style
		104~ Authentic texts
			105~ Methodological prelimminaries (1): external evidence
			107~ Methodological prelimminaries (2): internal evidence
			109 A Biography of the Buddha
		109 Problematic or revised texts
		109 Scholarly resources
	109~ Other Han-period translations
111~ Part III: Translations Produced During the Three Kingdoms Period
	1. The WU Kingdom (c. 220-280 CE)
		113~ Weiqinan
			113~ Biography
			114~ Authentic texts
		116~ Zhi Qian
			116~ Biography
			117~ Contents of his corpus
			118~ Translation style
			121~ Authentic texts
				122~ Methodological prelimminaries (1): external evidence
				125~ Methodological prelimminaries (2): internal evidence
				126~ Āgama texts
				133 An unidentified jātaka tale
				134~ Didactive verses
				135 A Biography of the Buddha
				136~ Mahāyāna sūtras
			144~ Stylistic varistions: sub-groups in Zhi Qian’s corpus
			148 Lost texts
			148 Scholarly resources
		149~ Kang Senghui
			149~ Biography
			150~ Contents of his corpus
			151~ Translation style
			152~ Authentic texts
			154 Lost texts
			154~ Scholarly resources
	2. The WEI Kingdom (c. 220-265 CE)
		155~ Bo Yan
			155~ Biography
			157 Authentic texts
			157~ Scholarly resources
		158~ Kang Sengkai
			158~ Biography
			159 Authentic translations
		159~ Other Wi-period translators
	3. The SHU Kingdom (c. 221-265 CE)
161~ Part IV: Conclusion
	163~ Missing Majority: Texts by Unknown Translators
		164~ Establishing chronology through commentaries
		166~ Lineages of transkation: Tracing “rhetorical communities”
	168 In Lieu of a Conclusion
Appendix I: Index to Translations by Taishō Text Numbers
Appendix II: Index of Sanskrit and Pāli Titles
Appendix III: Reference List of Han and Three Kingdoms Translations
Bibliography