It is said that Sengquan (僧詮) did not lecture on the Nirvāṇa Sūtra and that Falang (法朗) was the first person from the Sanlun tradition to propagate it energetically. Falang’s disciple Jizang (吉藏) wrote the Niepan jing youyi 涅槃經遊意 and Daban niepan jing shu 大般涅槃經疏 (not extant, but Hirai Shun’ei collected its lost passages). Hirai pointed out that Jizang incorporated the thought of the Nirvāṇa Sūtra into the contemplation of emptiness on the basis of prajñā. Hyegyun (Chn. Huijun 慧均), the author of the Dasheng silun xuanyi ji 大乘四論玄義記 (Kor. Taesŭng saron hyŏn’ŭi ki), was also Falang’s disciple. Therefore, he provided some vitally important materials to allow the consideration of the relationship between the Sanlun tradition and the Nirvāṇa Sūtra. This paper considers the citations from the Nirvāṇa Sūtra, which appear approximately 200 times in the Dasheng silun xuanyi ji.
