In Praise of the Light: A Critical Synoptic Edition with an Annotated Translation of Chapters 1-3 of Dharmarakṣa's Guang zan jing 光讚經, being the Earliest Chinese Translation of the Larger Prajñāpāramitā

Table of Contents
xi~ Acknowledgements
Part I: Introduction
	Chapter 1: General Introduction
		2~ 1.1 Preamble
		3~ 1.2 Aims and organisation of this work
			7~ 1.2.1 The synoptic edition
			9~ 1.2.2 The annotated translation
				13~ 1.2.2.1 Some remarks on Dharmarakṣa‘s translation ...
		17~ 1.3 Sources used in the synoptic edition and in the translation of ...
			17~ 1.3.1 Sanskrit sources
				19~ 1.3.1.1 The Gilgit manuscript of the Larger Prajñāpāramitā
				27~ 1.3.1.2 The Nepalese recension of the Pañcaviṃśati-
				29 1.3.1.3 The Sri Lanka Fragments of the Pañcaviṃśati-
				29 1.3.1.4 The Sanskrit Śatasāhasrikā ...
			29~ 1.3.2 Tibetan sources
			30~ 1.3.3 Chinese sources
				30~ 1.3.3.1 Fang guang jing
				32 1.3.3.2 Kumārajīva’s translation of Larger Prajñāpāramitā
				33 1.3.3.3 Xuanzang’s translationof Pañcaviṃśati-
				33~ 1.3.3.4 Methodological considerations on the Chinese sources
		36~ 1.4 The Guang zan jing as a witness of Larger Prajñāpāramitā
			37~ 1.4.1 Versions
			42~ 1.4.2 Recensions
	Chapter 2: The Guang zan jing: A Historical Sketch
		51 2.1 Introductory remarks
		51~ 2.2 The earliest sources on the Guang zan jing
			51~ 2.2.1 Dao’an’s Preface to the Concise synoptic explanation of ...
			53~ 2.2.2 The anonymous Jianbei jing shizhu huming bing shuxu
				61~ 2.2.2.1 Some further remarks on the JBSX as a source on th ehistory of GZJ
		62~ 2.3 The catalogues
		65~ 2.4 The fortunes of the GZJ
		69~ Appendix: a note on the authorship and relative chronology of the JBSX
	Chapter 3: Prolegomena to the Critical Edition of the Guang zan jing
		74~ 3.1. Introductory remarks
		79~ 3.2 The witness of the GZJ
			79 3.2.1 Manuscripts
				79~ 3.2.1.1 Manuscripts of the ten-roll GZJ
				80~ 3.2.1.2 Manuscripts of the fifteen-roll GZJ
				82~ 3.2.1.3 Manuscript fragments of copies of GZJ ...
				83~ 3.2.1.4 Other manuscripts
				86~ 3.2.1.5 Variant readings and political vagaries: ...
			92~ 3.2.2 Printed editions
				95~ 3.2.2.1 Editions of the Kaibao zang lineage (Type 1)
					96~ 3.2.2.1.1 The Kaibao zang
					99~ 3.2.2.1.2 The Jin zang
					101~ 3.2.2.1.3 The Second Koryo canon
				102~ 3.2.2.2 Editions of the Liao zang lineage (Type 2)
					102~ 3.2.2.2.1 The Liao zang
					104~ 3.2.2.2.2 The stone-carved Sūtras of Fangshan
				109~ 3.2.2.3 Editions of the Fuzhou-Sixi lineage (Type 3)
					110~ 3.2.2.3.1 The Fuzhou editions
					112~ 3.2.2.3.2 The Sixi zang
					115 3.2.2.3.3 The Qisha zang
					116 3.2.2.3.4 The Puning zang
					116~ 3.2.2.3.5 Ming and Qing editions
					117~ 3.2.2.3.6 A Problem in Type 3 editons: ...
		121~ 3.3 The recension of the GZJ
			123~ 3.3.1 The Northen line
			127~ 3.3.2 The Southern line
			132~ 3.3.3 Some general remarks on the tradition of the GZJ
			140 3.3.4 Conclusions: some pratical guidelines
		141~ 3.4 The organization of the apparatus to the critical edition ...
Part II: Critical and Synoptic Editionof the Guang zan jing
	144~ GZJ - Chapter 1
	200~ GZJ - Chapter 2
	207~ GZJ - Chapter 3
Part III: Annotated Translation of the Guang zan jing
	241~ Chapter 1: In Praise of the Light
	319~ Chapter 2: Complying with Emptiness
	327~ Chapter 3: Practising Emptiness
Appendix: The Gilgit Manuscript of the Larger Prajñāpāramitā
Index of Chinese Terms
Abbreviations and Bibliography
Abbreviations of the Chinese Editions Used in the Critical Edition
Conventions for editing passages from the Gilgit MS of the Larger PP
Bibliography
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