The Śālistamba Sūtra

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The Śālistamba Sūtra: Tibetan Original, Sanskrit Reconstruction, English Translation, Critical Notes (Including Pāli Parallels, Chinese Version, and Ancient Tibetan Fragments)
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Sutras (Sanskrit)


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The Salistamba Sutra, a Mahayana text of great antiquity, has perished in its original Sanskrit form. It is however extensively quoted in Sanskrit commentarial literature which does survive in the original. Moreover the Salistamba survives in several Chinese versions and in Tibetan, including a seventh century manuscript which represents one of the earliest extant examples of the Tibetan language.
      The resulting approximation of the Sanskrit text of the sutra is of considerable historical importance with regard of the origins of Mahayana Buddhism and the early history of Buddhism in general. Source: (Motilal Banarsidass)
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Reat, Noble R., trans. The Śālistamba Sūtra: Tibetan Original, Sanskrit Reconstruction, English Translation, Critical Notes (Including Pāli Parallels, Chinese Version, and Ancient Tibetan Fragments). Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1998. First published 1993 by Motilal Banarsidass (Delhi).
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Table of contents
  • Acknowledgmentsix
  • Prefacexi
  • Introduction1
    • Date and Historical Importance of the Sūtra1
    • Organization and Content of the Sūtra5
    • Structure and Development of the Sūtra13
    • European Literature on the Sūtra15
    • The Present Edition16
    • Sources and Layout of the Present Edition18
    • Synopsis of Textual Sources21
    • Textual Symbols23
    • Abbreviations24
  • Texts and Translation25
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Classical WorksAbout this item
In this sūtra, at the request of venerable Śāriputra, the bodhisattva mahāsattva Maitreya elucidates a very brief teaching on dependent arising that the Buddha had given earlier that day while gazing at a rice seedling. The text discusses outer and inner causation and its conditions, describes in detail the twelvefold cycle by which inner dependent arising gives rise to successive lives, and explains how understanding the very nature of that process can lead to freedom from it. (Source: 84000)