Abstract
The Treatise on Lunar Mansions and Planets (Xiuyao jing), is an eighth-century CE astral compendium based on sources from India, Central Asia, and China. The convoluted history of the reception of this text makes it an interesting case study that illustrates the complex relationship between source texts, translations, editions, and their transmission in India and East Asia. The source of the work is unknown. It was attributed to Amoghavajra, a prolific translator active in Chang’an and a patriarch of Esoteric Buddhism in China. The two translations of the text, one being an annotated retranslation of the other, as well as the Japanese and Chinese recensions of the text demonstrate a gradual process of Sinicization. Particularly noteworthy is a small glossary of the names of the seven planetary weekdays in Chinese, Sogdian, Middle Persian, and Sanskrit found in the earlier translation “transcribed” by Shi Yao.
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