Michael Radich
Biographic Data
| ID | 1266302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Radich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Radich |
| SIGNATURE | RADICH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heidelberg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2709-9595 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What happened to the Ekottarikāgama 增壹阿含經 T125 after the death of Dao'an
The only extant complete Ekottarikāgama , viz. Zengyi ahan jing 增壹阿含經 T125, has presented modern scholarship with significant challenges. This study departs from the assumption, demonstrated in prior work, that the extant collection is due to *Dharmanandin and Zhu Fonian (and not Saṅghadeva, as wrongly held by tradition and the Taishō). The study first systematically reviews and coordinates prior scholarship on a number of possible anomalous feat…
Close reading and larger patterns in Buddhist history
This lecture series aimed to consider various ways that the close reading or philological analysis of texts enables us to gain traction on larger questions in the history of Buddhism. The philological methods at play in several of the studies covered by these lectures are strongly—but not exclusively—associated with new techniques for the application of computation to the analysis of Chinese Buddhist texts. A common thread in the historical quest…
Notes on the Fo yi jing 佛醫經 T793
The Fo yi jing 佛醫經 T793, a short text, discusses physical and mental health, presenting its content as the teachings of the Buddha. The Taishō presents the text as translated by Zhu Lüyan 竺律炎 and Zhi Qian 支謙 . We survey bibliographic records to propose that this attribution is unreliable. Using computer assisted analysis, we locate passages in the text possibly borrowed from early Chinese sources, among them most notably An Shigao’s 安世高 Jiu heng …
Computer-assisted Analysis of Zhu Fonian’s Original Mahayana Sutras
In her 2010 study of the Shi zhu duan jie jing T309, Jan Nattier found that several passages in T309 were copied from earlier Chinese Buddhist texts. She thus proposed that T309 is not a translation from an Indian text, but a “forgery” by Zhu Fonian. Extending Nattier’s analysis with the help of TACL, a tool for computational textual analysis, we conducted a more thorough analysis of Zhu Fonian’s four Mahayana texts, namely, T309, the Pusa chu ta…
Fei Changfang's Treatment of Sengyou's Anonymous Texts
The catalogue entitled Lidai sanbao ji T2034, completed in 598, exerted a profound influence on the shape of the Chinese Buddhist canon. It also features a large number of new ascriptions for canonical texts. Subsequent tradition and modern scholarship have repeatedly found these ascriptions profoundly problematic. Scholarly opinion has been divided about whether the author, Fei Changfang, faithfully reported these suspect ascriptions from other …
A Triad of Texts from Fifth-Century Southern China
In previous work, I have shown that the (Mainstream, “smaller”) Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra ascribed to Faxian is in fact almost certainly not his work, and that internal evidence closely associates it with two other texts: the Guoqu xianzai yinguo jing ascribed to Guṇabhadra and the *Mahāmāyā-sūtra ascribed to Tanjing. This paper analyzes the content of these texts, in order to ascertain (as much as possible) their likely relation to one another; the …
A “Prehistory” to Chinese Debates on the Survival of Death by the Spirit, With a Focus on the Term Shishen 識神 / Shenshi 神識
In fifth- and sixth-century China, one set of debates between Buddhists and their opponents famously focused on the Buddhist claim that “the spirit survives [death]” 神不滅. Prior scholarship has tended to focus on the development of relevant concepts only beginning in the early fifth century. However, building on work by Kawano, Itō, Nattier, Zacchetti, and Park, this paper argues that important predecessors to the concepts deployed by Buddhist par…
Perfected Embodiment
Perfected Embodiment
Tibetan Evidence for the Sources of Chapters of the Synoptic Suvar?a-prabh?sottama-s?tra T 664 Ascribed to Param?rtha
Four chapters survive of a supposed translation of the Suvar?a-prabh?sottama-s?tra by Param?rtha (499–569). Versions of these chapters are also found in a later Chinese version of the s?tra by Yijing. In earlier work, I have argued that these chapters were most likely composed in China, basing my argument upon extensive verbatim correspondences between these chapters and a number of earlier Chinese texts. However, a significant obstacle still sta…
Tibetan Evidence for the Sources of Chapters of the Synoptic Suvar?a-prabh?sottama-s?tra T 664 Ascribed to Param?rtha
Four chapters survive of a supposed translation of the Suvar?a-prabh?sottama-s?tra by Param?rtha (499–569). Versions of these chapters are also found in a later Chinese version of the s?tra by Yijing. In earlier work, I have argued that these chapters were most likely composed in China, basing my argument upon extensive verbatim correspondences between these chapters and a number of earlier Chinese texts. However, a significant obstacle still sta…
Notes on the Fo yi jing 佛醫經 T793
The Fo yi jing 佛醫經 T793, a short text, discusses physical and mental health, presenting its content as the teachings of the Buddha. The Taishō presents the text as translated by Zhu Lüyan 竺律炎 and Zhi Qian 支謙 . We survey bibliographic records to propose that this attribution is unreliable. Using computer assisted analysis, we locate passages in the text possibly borrowed from early Chinese sources, among them most notably An Shigao’s 安世高 Jiu heng …
A “Prehistory” to Chinese Debates on the Survival of Death by the Spirit, With a Focus on the Term Shishen 識神 / Shenshi 神識
In fifth- and sixth-century China, one set of debates between Buddhists and their opponents famously focused on the Buddhist claim that “the spirit survives [death]” 神不滅. Prior scholarship has tended to focus on the development of relevant concepts only beginning in the early fifth century. However, building on work by Kawano, Itō, Nattier, Zacchetti, and Park, this paper argues that important predecessors to the concepts deployed by Buddhist par…
Perfected Embodiment
Perfected Embodiment
Tibetan Evidence for the Sources of Chapters of the Synoptic Suvar?a-prabh?sottama-s?tra T 664 Ascribed to Param?rtha
Four chapters survive of a supposed translation of the Suvar?a-prabh?sottama-s?tra by Param?rtha (499–569). Versions of these chapters are also found in a later Chinese version of the s?tra by Yijing. In earlier work, I have argued that these chapters were most likely composed in China, basing my argument upon extensive verbatim correspondences between these chapters and a number of earlier Chinese texts. However, a significant obstacle still sta…
A Triad of Texts from Fifth-Century Southern China
In previous work, I have shown that the (Mainstream, “smaller”) Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra ascribed to Faxian is in fact almost certainly not his work, and that internal evidence closely associates it with two other texts: the Guoqu xianzai yinguo jing ascribed to Guṇabhadra and the *Mahāmāyā-sūtra ascribed to Tanjing. This paper analyzes the content of these texts, in order to ascertain (as much as possible) their likely relation to one another; the …
Computer-assisted Analysis of Zhu Fonian’s Original Mahayana Sutras
In her 2010 study of the Shi zhu duan jie jing T309, Jan Nattier found that several passages in T309 were copied from earlier Chinese Buddhist texts. She thus proposed that T309 is not a translation from an Indian text, but a “forgery” by Zhu Fonian. Extending Nattier’s analysis with the help of TACL, a tool for computational textual analysis, we conducted a more thorough analysis of Zhu Fonian’s four Mahayana texts, namely, T309, the Pusa chu ta…
Fei Changfang's Treatment of Sengyou's Anonymous Texts
The catalogue entitled Lidai sanbao ji T2034, completed in 598, exerted a profound influence on the shape of the Chinese Buddhist canon. It also features a large number of new ascriptions for canonical texts. Subsequent tradition and modern scholarship have repeatedly found these ascriptions profoundly problematic. Scholarly opinion has been divided about whether the author, Fei Changfang, faithfully reported these suspect ascriptions from other …
Notes on the Fo yi jing 佛醫經 T793
The Fo yi jing 佛醫經 T793, a short text, discusses physical and mental health, presenting its content as the teachings of the Buddha. The Taishō presents the text as translated by Zhu Lüyan 竺律炎 and Zhi Qian 支謙 . We survey bibliographic records to propose that this attribution is unreliable. Using computer assisted analysis, we locate passages in the text possibly borrowed from early Chinese sources, among them most notably An Shigao’s 安世高 Jiu heng …
Close reading and larger patterns in Buddhist history
This lecture series aimed to consider various ways that the close reading or philological analysis of texts enables us to gain traction on larger questions in the history of Buddhism. The philological methods at play in several of the studies covered by these lectures are strongly—but not exclusively—associated with new techniques for the application of computation to the analysis of Chinese Buddhist texts. A common thread in the historical quest…
What happened to the Ekottarikāgama 增壹阿含經 T125 after the death of Dao'an
The only extant complete Ekottarikāgama , viz. Zengyi ahan jing 增壹阿含經 T125, has presented modern scholarship with significant challenges. This study departs from the assumption, demonstrated in prior work, that the extant collection is due to *Dharmanandin and Zhu Fonian (and not Saṅghadeva, as wrongly held by tradition and the Taishō). The study first systematically reviews and coordinates prior scholarship on a number of possible anomalous feat…
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