The Laṅkāvatāra-ratna-sūtram: Sarva-buddha-pravacana-hṛdayam

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Laṅkāvatāra-ratna-sūtram: Sarva-buddha-pravacana-hṛdayam; A Study of the Four-Fascicle Laṅkāvatāra ratna sūtram in a Set of Four Texts: A Sanskrit Restoration, English and Japanese translations with Introduction, and the Collated Guṇabhadra Chinese Version with Japanese Reading Laṅkāvatārasūtra
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A tentative Sanskrit reconstruction on the basis of Guṇabhadra's Chinese translation . . . which Gishin regards as the original version of the text. Although an interesting exercise in linguistic proficiency – mainly useful for scholars not familiar with Classical Chinese – it can hardly be regarded as an authentic Sanskrit testimony. (Source: Florin Deleanu, "The Laṅkāvatārasūtra: A Bibliographical Survey", 18)
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Tokiwa, Gishin. Laṅkāvatāra-ratna-sūtram: Sarva-buddha-pravacana-hṛdayam; A Study of the Four-Fascicle Laṅkāvatāra ratna sūtram in a Set of Four Texts: A Sanskrit Restoration, English and Japanese translations with Introduction, and the Collated Guṇabhadra Chinese Version with Japanese Reading. Osaka: Private Publication, 2003.
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Classical WorksAbout this item
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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Classical WorksAbout this item
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.
1 Scholarship on
Classical WorksAbout this item
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.