The Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra

Translation of Great Nirvāṇa Mahāyāna Sūtra

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The Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra was translated into English by Kosho Yamamoto in 1973 from Dharmakṣema's Chinese version (Taisho Tripitaka Vol. 12, No. 374). The edition represented here is Tony Page's edited and revised version of Yamamoto's translation.

Citation	Yamamoto, Kōshō, trans. The Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra. Translated into English from Dharmakṣema's Chinese version (Taisho Tripiṭaka vol. 12, no. 374). Edited and revised by Tony Page. n.p.: n.p., 2007. First published 1973 by Karinbunko (Ube, Japan). http://lirs.ru/do/Mahaparinirvana_Sutra,Yamamoto,Page,2007.pdf

Chapter One: Introductory1
Chapter Two: On Cunda15
Chapter Three: On Grief25
Chapter Four: On Long Life33
Chapter Five: On the Adamantine Body43
Chapter Six: On the Virtue of the Name49
Chapter Seven: On the Four Aspects51
Chapter Eight: On the Four Dependables75
Chapter Nine: On Wrong and Right89
Chapter Ten: On the Four Truths97
Chapter Eleven: On the Four Inversions99
Chapter Twelve: On the Nature of the Tathagata101
Chapter Thirteen: On Letters113
Chapter Fourteen: On the Parable of the Birds117
Chapter Fifteen: On the Parable of the Moon121
Chapter Sixteen: On the Bodhisattva125
Chapter Seventeen: On the Questions Raised by the Crowd139
Chapter Eighteen: On Actual Illness151

Chapter Nineteen: On Holy Actions (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Chapter Twenty: On Holy Actions (b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Chapter Twenty-One: On Pure Actions (a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Chapter Twenty-Two: On Pure Actions (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 Chapter Twenty-Three: On Pure Actions (c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 Chapter Twenty-Four: On Pure Actions (d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 Chapter Twenty-Five: On Pure Actions (e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 Chapter Twenty-Six: On the Action of the Child . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 Chapter Twenty-Seven: Bodhisattva Highly-Virtuous King (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283 Chapter Twenty-Eight: Bodhisattva Highly-Virtuous King (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 Chapter Twenty-Nine: Bodhisattva Highly-Virtuous King (c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 Chapter Thirty: Bodhisattva Highly-Virtuous King (d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 Chapter Thirty-One: Bodhisattva Highly-Virtuous King (e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337 Chapter Thirty-Two: Bodhisattva Highly-Virtuous King (f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351 Chapter Thirty-Three: On Bodhisattva Lion’s Roar (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365 Chapter Thirty-Four: On Bodhisattva Lion’s Roar (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381 Chapter Thirty-Five: On Bodhisattva Lion’s Roar (c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399 Chapter Thirty-Six: On Bodhisattva Lion’s Roar (d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407 Chapter Thirty-Six: On Bodhisattva Lion’s Roar (d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415 Chapter Thirty-Seven: On Bodhisattva Lion’s Roar (e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Chapter Thirty-Eight: On Bodhisattva Lion’s Roar (f). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437 Chapter Thirty-Nine: On Bodhisattva Lion’s Roar (g) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453 Chapter Forty: On Bodhisattva Kasyapa (a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469 Chapter Forty-One: On Bodhisattva Kasyapa (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489 Chapter Forty-Two: On Bodhisattva Kasyapa (c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509 Chapter Forty-Three: On Bodhisattva Kasyapa (d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525 Chapter Forty-Four: On Bodhisattva Kasyapa (e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529 Chapter Forty-Five: On Kaundinya (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547 Chapter Forty-Six: On Kaundinya (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565

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