A Revised Edition of the Laṅkāvatāra-Sūtra, Kṣaṇika-Parivarta

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Excellent critical edition of the [Kṣaṇika-Parivarta] chapter. It makes use of 17 Sanskrit manuscripts, Nanjio's and Vaidya's editions, Tibetan translation, and all the three Chinese translations. (Deleanu, "The Laṅkāvatārasūtra: A Bibliographical Survey," 17). Takasaki’s introduction to the edition (p. 2) also contains important insights concerning the stemmatic relations between the manuscripts. He argues that the extant Sanskrit version reflects a single textual recension, which is identified as 'Nepalese', which can be further divided into four lineages:

(A) T1 ('T'=#333) - T 6 (#332) - N 11
(B) C 8 ('C') - R 10 ('A') – N 12
(C) T2 ('K' =#331)…T4…N13
(D) T3 - T5 - C9 - N14 - N16 – N17.
(Deleanu, The Laṅkāvatārasūtra: A Bibliographical Survey," note 5)

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Takasaki, Jikido, ed. A Revised Edition of the Laṅkāvatāra-Sūtra, Kṣaṇika-Parivarta. Tokyo: Ippan kenkyū (C) Kenkyū seika hōkokusho, 1981.

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Laṅkāvatārasūtra [लङ्कावतारसूत्र]. 'phags pa lang kar gshegs pa'i theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ལང་ཀར་གཤེགས་པའི་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Sūtra on the Descent into Laṅka (84000)]. Translated by 'gos chos grub, Bodhiruci, Guṇabhadra, Śikṣānanda. Kangyur, RKTSK 107 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=107&typ=1.

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An important Mahāyāna sūtra that was highly influential in East Asia as well as in Nepal, where a manuscript was discovered that remains the only extant Sanskrit recension of this text. It is notable for its inclusion of many doctrinal features that would come to be associated with the Yogācāra philosophy of Mind-Only (Cittamātra), such as the ālayavijñāna, or store-house consciousness, that acts as a repository for the seeds of karmic actions. It also includes several lengthy discussions of tathāgatagarbha and, though it is never actually referenced in the Uttaratantra, it is often listed among the so-called tathāgatagarbha sūtras. While its lack of mention in the Uttaratantra has been interpreted by scholars as evidence that the sūtra postdates the treatise, it should be noted that the ways in which the tathāgatagarbha is discussed in the sūtra is often at odds with its presentation in the Uttaratantra.

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Laṅkāvatārasūtra [लङ्कावतारसूत्र]. 'phags pa lang kar gshegs pa'i theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ལང་ཀར་གཤེགས་པའི་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Sūtra on the Descent into Laṅka (84000)]. Translated by 'gos chos grub, Bodhiruci, Guṇabhadra, Śikṣānanda. Kangyur, RKTSK 107 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=107&typ=1.

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An important Mahāyāna sūtra that was highly influential in East Asia as well as in Nepal, where a manuscript was discovered that remains the only extant Sanskrit recension of this text. It is notable for its inclusion of many doctrinal features that would come to be associated with the Yogācāra philosophy of Mind-Only (Cittamātra), such as the ālayavijñāna, or store-house consciousness, that acts as a repository for the seeds of karmic actions. It also includes several lengthy discussions of tathāgatagarbha and, though it is never actually referenced in the Uttaratantra, it is often listed among the so-called tathāgatagarbha sūtras. While its lack of mention in the Uttaratantra has been interpreted by scholars as evidence that the sūtra postdates the treatise, it should be noted that the ways in which the tathāgatagarbha is discussed in the sūtra is often at odds with its presentation in the Uttaratantra.