Discourses

མདོ། · mdo/

Sūtra

The main body of the Buddha’s discourses, ranging from lengthy and detailed presentations of doctrine to brief summaries of particular points (Toh 8-359).

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Texts: 397	Published: 187	In Progress: 145	Not Begun: 65

Sub-sections

Perfection of Wisdom

ཤེར་ཕྱིན།

sher phyin/

Prajñāpāramitā

The collection of discourses on the Perfection of Wisdom (Toh 8-30).

Texts	23
Published	8
In Progress	10
Not begun	5

Ornaments of the Buddhas

ཕལ་ཆེན།

phal chen/

Buddhāvataṃsaka

Presented as a single, long sūtra, although many of its 45 chapters are independent works (Toh 44).

Texts	45
Published	4
In Progress	8
Not begun	33

Heap of Jewels

དཀོན་བརྩེགས།

dkon brtsegs/

Ratnakūṭa

Forty-nine selected sūtras on a range of themes, compiled as a separate collection also found in the Chinese Tripiṭaka (Toh 45-93).

Texts	49
Published	22
In Progress	26
Not begun	1

General Sūtra Section

མདོ་སྡེ།

mdo sde/

The principal collection of 266 sūtras, varied in length, subject, interlocutors and origins (Toh 94-359).

Texts	267
Published	151
In Progress	100
Not begun	16

Thirteen late-translated sūtras

གསར་འགྱུར།

gsar 'gyur/

A group of Theravāda sūtras translated into Tibetan in the 14th century (Toh 31-43).

Texts	13
Published	2
In Progress	1
Not begun	10

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