མདོ་ཆེན་པོ། | Glossary of Terms

མདོ་ཆེན་པོ།

mdo chen po

mahāsūtra

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Mahāsūtra

The Mahāsūtra “Illusion’s Net”

Mahāsūtra

མདོ་ཆེན་པོ།

mdo chen po

mahāsūtra AD

Definition in this text:

The corpus of texts known as the Mahāsūtras or “Great Discourses” comprises (at least in the Kangyur) ten works originally extracted from the Āgamas of the Sarvāstivādins and the Mūlasarvāstivādins with applications mentioned in the vinaya literature. See UT22084-071-002-55 and the 84000 Knowledge Base article Mahāsūtras.

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