Nāgārjuna
Compendium of Sūtras
Written work
Compendium of Sūtras
सूत्रसमुच्चय (Sūtrasamuccaya); tib. Mdo kun las btus pa
An anthology of quotations from Great Vehicle sūtras arranged by theme —the rarity of human birth and of the appearance of a Buddha, faith, emptiness, the bodhisattva's conduct—, preserved in Tibetan and Chinese. It served as a model for Śāntideva's Compendium of Training.
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Authorship note
Lindtner accepts it as authentic. Śāntideva (8th c.) expressly recommends it as a work "of the noble Nāgārjuna" (Bodhicaryāvatāra 5.106).
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Sources
- Śāntideva. Bodhicaryāvatāra 5.105–106. Trad. Kate Crosby y Andrew Skilton, The Bodhicaryāvatāra. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995 (Oxford World's Classics).
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