Tibetan Buddhist canon
The Mahāyāna Sūtras are a broad genre of Buddhist sutra scriptures that are accepted as canonical and as "buddhavacana" ("Buddha word") in Mahāyāna Buddhism. They are largely preserved in the Chinese Buddhist canon, the Tibetan Buddhist canon, and in extant Sanskrit manuscripts. Several hundred Mahāyāna sūtras survive in Sanskrit, or in Chinese and Tibetan translations. They are also sometimes called "Vaipulya" (extensive) sūtras by earlier sources. The Buddhist scholar Asaṅga classified the Mahāyāna sūtras as part of the "Bodhisattvapiṭaka", a collection of texts meant for bodhisattvas.