A Textual Research on a Wrong Splicing in Kehong Yinyi
There is a wrong splicing in the eighth volume of Kehong Yinyi preserved in the Korean Tripitaka, it involves some phonetic and meaning entries in Buddha’s Names Sutra, Three Thousand Buddhas’ Names Sutra and Five Thousand Five Hundred Buddhas’ Names Sutra. By backtracking the scriptures, the exact origin of these phonetic and meaning entries can be determined. At the same time, combined with the selected transcript of Kehong Yinyi recorded on the back of the Dunhuang Scroll P.2948, it can be inferred that this phenomenon already existed in Kehong Yinyi before it was introduced into Goryeo. As for the specific link in which this misalignment occurred, it is difficult to know for sure due to the lack of evidence chain.