jikai wrote: ↑Tue Sep 28, 2021 6:09 amFor what it's worth, I have a copy of the original Kosho Yamamoto translation (I.e. not the Tony Page edition). It is out there, but I doubt it is 'still in print'. I picked my copy up many moons ago in a second hand book shop in Japan. Though, having this version I've not needed to look into the Page version too deeply- so I couldn't say with much detail what changes have been made to the text itself. If anyone is curious about particular sections or passages, I'd be happy to check it against the original.
Thank you for that offer. If there is something I would be happy to contact you.
I found a scan of the table of contents at some point and was able to figure out the chaptering that Page's edit completely obscured. Now as I read the translation I always follow along in the Chinese to see how it compares. It's fairly literal and I don't have many doubts about Yamamoto's translation aside from choice of terminology. As far as I can tell, Page puts all of his own edits in square brackets, which are sometimes helpful. Sometimes Yamamoto uses a different word for the same term in Chinese from one sentence to the next (I can't think of any off my head, but it's something I noticed this weekend).
There are some things that I haven't been able to figure out though, which might be clearer in T374. For one, the sūtra lists the five kinds of action (五行) that were supposed to be taught to the assembly:
1. Holy Action
2. Pure Action
3. Heavenly Action
4. Illness Action
5. Child's Action
I was able to figure out what these correspond to, but Heavenly Action really is not explained anywhere in T375. I wonder if it is something that fell away, if indeed T375 is an edit of Dharmakṣema's version. Or perhaps it corresoponds to something which is given a synonymous name elsewhere—it also seems like illness action is not clearly signposted, but I assume it means the Buddha not really experiencing sickness.
I will try to make an outline based on my notes when I get through the whole thing. There's definitely a very interesting structure underlying the sūtra.