The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra

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).

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1. Bunyu, Nanjo, ed. The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra. Bibliotheca Otaniensia 1. Kyōto: Otani Daigaku, 1923. https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.313027/mode/2up.

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