Mahayana sutras | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-09

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00:00:41 1 History and background
00:00:50 1.1 Origins and early history
00:03:54 1.2 Scholarly views on historicity
00:07:24 1.3 Beliefs of Mahayana Buddhists
00:09:41 1.4 The earliest extant Mahayana sutras
00:11:27 2 Teachings
00:13:55 3 Collections of Mahayana sutras
00:14:05 3.1 Bodhisattvapiṭaka
00:14:35 3.2 Modern canons
00:16:19 3.3 Brief descriptions of some sutras
00:16:29 3.3.1 Proto-Mahayana sutras
00:17:39 3.3.2 iSamādhi/i sutras
00:18:09 3.3.3 iPerfection of Wisdom/i texts
00:19:24 3.3.4 Saddharma Puṇḍarīka
00:21:56 3.3.5 Pure Land sutras
00:23:51 3.3.6 The iVimalakirti Nirdeśa Sūtra/i
00:24:22 3.3.7 Confession Sutras
00:24:51 3.3.8 The iAvataṃsaka Sutra/i
00:25:44 3.3.9 Third turning sutras
00:27:00 3.3.10 iTathāgatagarbha/i class sutras
00:27:22 3.3.11 iCollected Sutras/i
00:27:51 3.3.12 Esoteric Sūtras
00:28:15 3.3.13 Transmigration sutras
00:28:36 3.3.14 Discipline sutras
00:29:02 3.3.15 Sutras devoted to individual figures
00:29:26 3.3.16 iVaipūlya Sūtras/i devoted to all iTathāgatas/i
00:30:13 4 See also
00:30:36 5 Notes
00:30:45 5.1 Bibliography
00:34:20 6 External links



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The Mahayana sutras are a broad genre of Buddhist scriptures that various traditions of Mahayana Buddhism accept as canonical. They are largely preserved in the Chinese Buddhist canon, the Tibetan Buddhist canon, and in extant Sanskrit manuscripts. Around one hundred Mahayana sutras survive in Sanskrit, or in Chinese and Tibetan translations.Mahayana sutras are passed down as the legacy of Gautama Buddha: early versions were not written documents but orally preserved teachings said to be verses that were committed to memory and recited by his disciples, in particular Ananda, which were viewed as a substitute for the actual speech of the Buddha following his parinirvana (death).