Analysis on Guo Pu's Erya Zhu(《尔雅注》)Cited in Xuan Ying's Yiqiejing Yinyi(《一切经音义》)
Yiqiejing Yinyi(《一切经音义》)is the earliest Buddhist dictionary extant today.Xuan Ying was the first to use Confucian classics to interpret Buddhist scriptures.He cited over 200 classic books,including nearly 700 examples of citing the Erya(《尔雅》)and over 200 examples of citing Guo Pu's Erya Zhu(《尔雅注》).Yiqiejing Yinyi(《一切经音义》)is an important document for the study of the transmission of the Erya(《尔雅》)in the Middle Ages.And the study on Guo Pu's Erya Zhu(《尔雅注》)cited in Xuan Ying's Yiqiejing Yinyi(《一切经音义》)has certain scholarly value.By comparing it with the Song Jian Ben Guo Zhu(宋监本郭注)and referring to Yuanben Yupian(《原本玉篇》),Wujing Zhengyi(《五经正义》),Wamyō ruiju shō(《倭名类聚抄》),the Dunhuang and Turfan excavations,we find that Yinyi's citations of Guo Pu's Erya Zhu(《尔雅注》)are not fixed,but rather adjusted according to the needs of the words being explained.This includes changing the exegesis terms,the way of expression and deleting,adding Guo Pu's Erya Zhu(《尔雅注》).In addition,seven examples that are not found in Guo's annotations.Studying these phenomena is not only helpful to the research of Guo Pu's annotations in circulation,collation,rectification,variant readings,but also has important significance on how to treat and utilize the cited documents.
Xuan YingYiqiejing Yinyi(《一切经音义》)Guo PuErya Zhu(《尔雅注》)mode of citation