Mahayana Text

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The Sutra of the Ten Wholesome Ways of Action cover
The Sutra of the Ten Wholesome Ways of Action 实叉难陀 The sutra is only one fascicle long, yet it gives Buddhist ethics a remarkably firm skeleton: it first establishes the principle that the mind creates…
Qianlong Tripitaka: Mahayana Nirvana Section cover
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Qianlong Tripitaka: Mahayana Nirvana Section Chinese Buddhist Canon · 2025 The Qianlong Buddhist Canon, also known as the "Qing Canon," was begun in the eleventh year of the Yongzheng reign of the Qing dynasty and completed i…
Collated Edition: The Sūtra of Immeasurable Pure and Equal Enlightenment cover
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Collated Edition: The Sūtra of Immeasurable Pure and Equal Enlightenment 支娄迦识 · 2025 Translated by the Tripiṭaka Master Lokakṣema of the Yuezhi in the Later Han. This scripture is an early Chinese translation of the Larger Sukhāvatīvyū…
Sutra of the Supreme King of All Dharmas cover
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Sutra of the Supreme King of All Dharmas 隋北印度三藏阇那崛多 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought has a long history and is highly original, inventive and literary. Early intellectual forms are distinctive: religious the…
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Mahayana Sutra on the Questions of the Virtuous Woman Anonymous · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive and literary. Early forms of thought have distinctive f…
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Mahayana Sutra of Realization and Accord 地婆诃罗 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought has a long history and is highly original, inventive and literary. Early forms of thought have distinctive features: relig…
Treatise on the Sutra of Mañjuśrī Bodhisattva's Questions on Bodhi (also called Treatise on the Sutra of the Peak of Gayā) cover
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Treatise on the Sutra of Mañjuśrī Bodhisattva's Questions on Bodhi (also called Treatise on the Sutra of the Peak of Gayā) 元魏三藏法师菩提流支 · 2024 Traditional Chinese culture has a long and profound intellectual history, marked by a high degree of originality, inventiveness, and literary quality.…
Sutra of the Original Vows and Merits of the Medicine Master Lapis Lazuli Light Tathagata (Premium Public Domain Edition) cover
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Sutra of the Original Vows and Merits of the Medicine Master Lapis Lazuli Light Tathagata (Premium Public Domain Edition) Xuanzang Zhangyue Banli · 2020 The Medicine Master Lapis Lazuli Light Tathagata's Original Vows and Merits Sutra, commonly known as the Medicine Master Sutra. It recounts how the Bu…
Medicine Buddha Sutra (Sutra of the Original Vows and Merits of the Medicine Master Lapis Lazuli Light Tathāgata) cover
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Medicine Buddha Sutra (Sutra of the Original Vows and Merits of the Medicine Master Lapis Lazuli Light Tathāgata) Xuanzang · 2019 A Mahayana Buddhist scripture. The Pure Lapis Lazuli World where Medicine Buddha resides and teaches, as described in the sutra, is an ideal land aspi…
Collated Edition: The Mahāvaipulya Sūtra of the Three Precepts cover
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Collated Edition: The Mahāvaipulya Sūtra of the Three Precepts 昙无谶 · 2025 Translated by Dharmakṣema, a Tripitaka master from India during the Northern Liang. This sutra is an alternate translation of the "Three Disciplines A…
Fo Shuo Weimojie Jing: The Vimalakirti Sutra as Spoken by the Buddha (Unannotated Edition) cover
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Fo Shuo Weimojie Jing: The Vimalakirti Sutra as Spoken by the Buddha (Unannotated Edition) 支谦 · 2015 Thus have I heard. Once the Buddha was journeying in Vaisali, dwelling in the grove of the Nai clan, together with a great company of eight thousand m…
The Great Collection Sutra on the Questions of the Great Akasagarbha Bodhisattva (Unannotated Edition) cover
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The Great Collection Sutra on the Questions of the Great Akasagarbha Bodhisattva (Unannotated Edition) 不空 · 2015 At that time the World-Honored One addressed the Venerable Mahakasyapa and the Venerable Ananda, saying: I now entrust this sutra to you. You should r…