Two Sanskrit Manuscripts of the Daśabhūmikasūtra

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Two Sanskrit Manuscripts of the Daśabhūmikasūtra Preserved at The National Archives, Kathmandu
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Kazunobu Matsuda's published photocopy of two Sanskrit manuscripts of the Daśabhūmikasūtra preserved at the National Archives in Kathmandu. Neither of them was consulted for the previous editions. One of them dates to the fifth to seventh centuries CE, and most probably is the oldest available manuscript of the Daśabhūmikasūtra (Adapted from Saerji, "Preliminary Studies on the Daśabhūmikasūtra: Focus on the Seventh Bhūmi," 2020).
Citation
Matsuda, Kazunobu, ed. Two Sanskrit Manuscripts of the Daśabhūmikasūtra Preserved at The National Archives, Kathmandu. Bibliotheca Codicum Asiaticorum 10. Tokyo: The Center for East Asian Cultural Studies, 1996.
Table of contents
  • Forewordvii
  • Prefaceix
  • Introductory Remarksxi
  • List of Abbreviationsxxii
  • Bibliographyxxiii
  • Contents and Concordance of the Manuscriptsxxvi
  • Akṣara List of Manuscript Axxviii
  • Plates
  • Manuscript A1
  • Manuscript B59
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Daśabhūmikasūtra. (T. Sa bcu pa'i mdo; C. Shidi jing/Shizhu jing; J. Jūjikyō/Jūjūkyō; K. Sipchi kyǒng/Sipchu kyǒng 十地經. In Sanskrit, "Scripture of the Ten Stages"; the definitive scriptural account of the ten "grounds" or "stages" (daśabhūmi) at the upper reaches of the bodhisattva path (mārga). In the sūtra, each of the ten stages is correlated with seminal doctrines of mainstream Buddhism, as well as with mastery of one of a list of ten perfections (pāramitā) completed in the course of training as a bodhisattva. The sūtra appears as one of the chapters of the Avatamsakasūtra [chapter 31] and also circulated as an independent text. (Source: "Daśabhūmikasūtra." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 220. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
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Classical WorksAbout this item
Daśabhūmikasūtra. (T. Sa bcu pa'i mdo; C. Shidi jing/Shizhu jing; J. Jūjikyō/Jūjūkyō; K. Sipchi kyǒng/Sipchu kyǒng 十地經. In Sanskrit, "Scripture of the Ten Stages"; the definitive scriptural account of the ten "grounds" or "stages" (daśabhūmi) at the upper reaches of the bodhisattva path (mārga). In the sūtra, each of the ten stages is correlated with seminal doctrines of mainstream Buddhism, as well as with mastery of one of a list of ten perfections (pāramitā) completed in the course of training as a bodhisattva. The sūtra appears as one of the chapters of the Avatamsakasūtra [chapter 31] and also circulated as an independent text. (Source: "Daśabhūmikasūtra." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 220. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)