Lankavatara Sutra

by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki | 1932 | 107,878 words | ISBN-13: 9789387496354

The English translation of the Lankavatara Sutra. This book recounts a teaching primarily between the Buddha and a Bodhisattva named Mahamati ("Great Wisdom"). The most important doctrine issuing from the Lankavatara Sutra is that of the primacy of consciousness (Sanskrit: vijnana) and the teaching of consciousness as the only reality. ...

Publisher's Note

Original Edition Published in London in 1932.
Based upon the Sanskrit edition of Bunyu Nanjo (1923).

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 Rev. 2: Apr 2005: Minor spelling corrections. Non-diacritical version.
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