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Traditional attribution
The Lankavatara Sutra
Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra
A dialogue between the Buddha and the bodhisattva Mahamati on the island of Lanka, bringing together the doctrines of "mind only" (cittamatra), the storehouse consciousness (alayavijñana) and buddha-nature (tathagatagarbha). Chan tradition claims Bodhidharma handed it to his successor Huike, and it was the reference scripture of early Chan before the Diamond Sutra replaced it.
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Authorship note
A Mahayana sutra that puts its teachings in the Buddha's mouth. Scholarship regards it as a composition long after his death by anonymous authors of the Mahayana movements; it is attributed to the historical Gotama only through the formula "Thus have I heard". Probably composed between the third and fifth centuries; its earliest surviving Chinese translation is Gunabhadra's (443).
Editions and translations
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English
The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary
Counterpoint, 2012
Translation: Red Pine
ISBN 9781582437910
Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha
The Lankavatara Sutra: A Mahayana Text
The Conscious LibraryThe Lankavatara Sutra: A Mahayana Text
George Routledge & Sons, 1932
Translation: D. T. Suzuki
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Other works by Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha
- Tipitaka, the Pali Canon ("Three Baskets") · 25
- Digha Nikaya (The Long Discourses) · 25
- Majjhima Nikaya (The Middle Length Discourses) · 25
- Samyutta Nikaya (The Connected Discourses) · 25
- Anguttara Nikaya (The Numerical Discourses) · 25
- Dhammapada (Verses on the Dhamma) · 25
- Sutta Nipata (The Group of Discourses) · 25
- Udana (Inspired Utterances) · 25
- Vinaya Pitaka (The Basket of Discipline) · 25
- The Discourse on Setting the Wheel of the Dhamma in Motion · 25
- Mahaparinibbana Sutta (The Great Discourse on the Final Extinguishment) · 25
- The Sutra in Forty-Two Sections · 150
- The Lotus Sutra (Saddharmapundarika) · 100
- The Diamond Sutra · 300
- The Heart Sutra · 650
- Itivuttaka (Thus It Was Said) · 25
- Khuddakapatha (The Minor Readings) · 25
- Jataka (Stories of the Buddha's Former Births) · 25
- Satipatthana Sutta (Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness) · 25
- Anattalakkhana Sutta (Discourse on the Characteristic of Not-Self) · 25
- Kalama Sutta (Discourse to the Kalamas) · 25
- Pure Land Sutras (Sukhavativyuha) · 150
- Avatamsaka Sutra (Flower Ornament Sutra) · 400
Sources
- Williams, Paul. Mahāyāna Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations. Routledge, Londres, 1989 (2.ª ed. 2009).
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