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Laṅkāvatārasūtra
An important Mahāyāna sūtra that was highly influential in East Asia as well as in Nepal, where a manuscript was discovered that remains the only extant Sanskrit recension of this text. It is notable for its inclusion of many doctrinal features that would come to be associated with the Yogācāra philosophy of Mind-Only (Cittamātra), such as the ālayavijñāna, or store-house consciousness, that acts as a repository for the seeds of karmic actions. It also includes several lengthy discussions of tathāgatagarbha and, though it is never actually referenced in the Uttaratantra, it is often listed among the so-called tathāgatagarbha sūtras. While its lack of mention in the Uttaratantra has been interpreted by scholars as evidence that the sūtra postdates the treatise, it should be noted that the ways in which the tathāgatagarbha is discussed in the sūtra is often at odds with its presentation in the Uttaratantra.
Laṅkāvatārasūtra;Gö Chödrub;འགོས་ཆོས་གྲུབ་;'gos chos grub;Facheng; Bodhiruci;Guṇabhadra;Śikṣānanda;'phags pa lang kar gshegs pa'i theg pa chen po'i mdo;འཕགས་པ་ལང་ཀར་གཤེགས་པའི་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།;Laṅkāvatārasūtra;入楞伽經;लङ्कावतारसूत्र;འཕགས་པ་ལང་ཀར་གཤེགས་པའི་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།
Wǒnch'ǔk: Gambhīrasaṃdhinirmocanasūtraṭīkā
Wǒnch'ǔk's commentary to the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra was extremely popular in the Chinese outpost of Dunhuang, where Chos grub (Ch. Facheng; c. 755–849) translated it into Tibetan during the reign of King Ral pa can (r. 815–838). Only nine of the ten rolls of the commentary are still extant in Chinese; the full text is available only in its Tibetan translation, which the Tibetans know as the "Great Chinese Commentary" (Rgya nag gi 'grel chen) even though it was written by a Korean. (Source: "Wǒnch'ǔk." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 996–97. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
RKTST 3355;Wǒnch'ǔk; Gö Chödrub;འགོས་ཆོས་གྲུབ་;'gos chos grub;Facheng;'phags pa dgongs pa zab mo nges par 'grel pa'i mdo rgya cher 'grel pa;འཕགས་པ་དགོངས་པ་ཟབ་མོ་ངེས་པར་འགྲེལ་པའི་མདོ་རྒྱ་ཆེར་འགྲེལ་པ།;Gambhīrasaṃdhinirmocanasūtraṭīkā;आर्यगम्भीरसंधिनिर्मोचनसूत्रटीका;འཕགས་པ་དགོངས་པ་ཟབ་མོ་ངེས་པར་འགྲེལ་པའི་མདོ་རྒྱ་ཆེར་འགྲེལ་པ།
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