Stephen Hodge Translates (The Mahāyāna Mahāparnirvāṇa-Sūtra)

Stephen Hodge Translates (The Mahāyāna Mahāparnirvāṇa-Sūtra)

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Citation:	Page, Tony. "Stephen Hodge Translates (The Mahāyāna Mahāparnirvāṇa-Sūtra)." Nirvana Sutra: Appreciation of the "Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra." Updated August 2019. http://www.nirvanasutra.net/stephenhodgetranslates.htm.
Translated texts:	Dharmakṣema, 《大般涅槃經》 'Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra (Mahaparinirvana Sutra),' in Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō 《大正新脩大藏經》, in Takakusu Junjiro, ed., (Tokyo: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Kankōkai, 1988), Vol. 12, No. 374, http://tripitaka.cbeta.org/T12n0374.

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This electronic resource contains various translations from Stephen Hodge of diverse parts of the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra. It is presented on Dr. Tony Page's website Nirvana Sutra: Appreciation of the "Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra." According to Page, the passages translated by Hodge were taken from various parts of the Dharmakṣema Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra and constitute words spoken by the Buddha within the sūtra. Hodge's translations are presented in four parts (on four separate pages) within Page's website. They include: Stephen Hodge Translates, Stephen Hodge Translates 2, Stephen Hodge Translates 3, and Stephen Hodge Translates 4.

sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt. सूत्र Tib. མདོ། Ch. 佛经

"This sūtra became an important scriptural source for the discussion of buddha-nature in China and is famous for associating the term buddhadhātu with tathāgatagarbha.

Taishō - Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō, Chinese Tripiṭaka

sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt. सूत्र Tib. མདོ། Ch. 佛经