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This book is the full Dharmakṣema version of the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra. This particular book is unique in that the passages are numbered, making it easier for people to find verses of importance. It is translated by Kosho Yamamoto.

Citation	Yamamoto, Kosho, trans. Nirvana Sutra: A Translation of Dharmakshema’s Northern Version. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015.

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• Chapter One: IntroductoryV1
• Chapter Two: On CundaV58
• Chapter Three: On GriefV93
• Chapter Four : On Long LifeV136
• Chapter Five : On the Adamantine BodyV179
• Chapter Six: On the Virtue of the NameV199
• Chapter Seven: On the Four AspectsV204
• Chapter Eight : On the Four DependablesV321
• Chapter Nine: On Wrong and RightV373
• Chapter Ten: On the Four TruthsV408
• Chapter Eleven: On the Four InversionsV413
• Chapter Twelve: On the Nature of the TathagataV417
• Chapter Thirteen: On LettersV465
• Chapter Fourteen: On the Parable of the BirdsV479
• Chapter Fifteen : On the Parable of the MoonV494
• Chapter Sixteen: On the BodhisattvaV505
• Chapter Seventeen: On the Questions Raised by the CrowdV559
• Chapter Eighteen: On Actual IllnessV601
• Chapter Nineteen: On Holy Actions (a)V627
• ChaptTewr enty: On Holy Actions (b)V686
• ChaptTewr enty-One: On Pure Actions (a)V782

Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra, 大般涅槃經 (Dabanniepan jing), T374, 12: https://21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SAT2012/T0374.html, translated by Dharmakṣema.

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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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

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt. बोधिसत्त्व Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ། Ch. 菩薩

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