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** {{i|VI. Seven Kinds of First Principle (paramārtha), and the Philosophers' Wrong Views regarding the Mind Rejected |35}}
 
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** {{i|VIII. The Bodhisattva's Discipling himself in Self-realisation |39}}
 
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** {{i|IX. The Evolution and Function of the Vijũānas; The Spiritual Discipline of the Bodhisattva; Verses on the Alaya-ocean and Vijũāna-waves |39}}
 
** {{i|IX. The Evolution and Function of the Vijũānas; The Spiritual Discipline of the Bodhisattva; Verses on the Alaya-ocean and Vijũāna-waves |39}}
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** {{i|XXXIII. On Word and Discrimination and the Highest Reality |76}}
 
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** {{i|XXXIV. Verses on Reality and its Representations |77}}
 
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** {{i|XXXVI. The Teaching (dharmadeśanā) of the Tathagatas |84}}
 
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** {{i|XXXVII. Four Kinds of Dhyāna |85}}
 
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** {{i|XLI. On the Chain of Causation (pratityasamutpāda) |90}}
 
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** {{i|XLII. Words (abhilāpa) and Realities (bhāva) |91}}
 
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** {{i|XLIV. On the Nature of Māyā |95}}
 
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** {{i|XLV. That All Things are Unborn |96}}
 
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** {{i|XLVIII. All Things are and are not (Verses on Four Forms of Explanation) |99}}
 
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** {{i|L. The Intellect (buddhi), Examining and Discrimnating |105}}
 
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** {{i|LI. The Elements, Primary and Secondary |106}}
 
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* {{i|Chapter Three. On Impermanency |118}}
 
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** {{i|LVII. Three Forms of the Will-body (manomayakāya) |118}}
 
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** {{i|LIX. The Buddha-nature (buddhatā) |122}}
 
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** {{i|LXII. On Being and Non-Being; Realism and Nihilism |125}}
 
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** {{i|LXXXVI. Momentariness; the Eight Vijñānas |202}}
 
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** {{i|LXXXVII. Three Kinds of the Pāramitās |204}}
 
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* {{i|Chapter Seven. On Transformation |207}}
 
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** {{i|LXXXIX. On Transformation |207}}
 
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The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra
Translation of The Sūtra on the Descent into Laṅka (84000)
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Originally published in 1932, this was the first English translation of the Laṅkāvatārasūtra. It was based on the Sanskrit edition of Nanjo Bunyu, published by the Otani University Press in 1923.

Citation Suzuki, D. T., trans. The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra: A Mahāyāna Text. Buddhist Tradition Series 40. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2003. First published 1932 by George Routledge and Sons (London).

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

Descent into Laṅka Sūtra, a very influential text in East Asia and Nepal.

Mahāyāna - Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion. Skt. महायान Tib. ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ། Ch. 大乘

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