Sutra Sources

Quoted by Nagarjuna in Mūlamadhyamakakārikā (15.7):

Kaccayanagotta Sutta
Saṁyutta Nikāya 12.15
Connected Discourses of the Buddha

  • Thanissaro Bhikkhu, trans. 1997. “Kaccayanagotta Sutta: To Kaccayana Gotta (on Right View).” Access to Insight. accesstoinsight.org

Prajñāpāramitā
Perfection of Wisdom Sutras

  • Conze, E. 1978. The Prajñāpāramitā Literature. Mouton. JABL

Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra
Vajra Cutter Sutra (Diamond Sutra)
Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya
Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom Sutra (Heart Sutra)

  • Conze Edward. 1975. Buddhist Wisdom Books: Containing the Diamond Sutra and the Heart Sutra. Allen & Unwin. JABL
  • Müller, F. Max. and Edward Conze. 1957.  Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā. Is. M.E.O. JABL

Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra 
Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines
ཤེར་ཕྱིན་བརྒྱད་སྟོང་པ།
sher phyin brgyad stong pa

  • Conze, Edward. 1973. The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines and its Verse Summary. Four Seasons Foundation. JABL
  • Babcock, Richard, trans. 2010. “The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Lines (RiBa).” Rev. of Conze, 1973. Ranjung Yeshe Wiki rywiki.tsadra.org

Daśasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitā
Perfection of Wisdom in Ten Thousand Lines
ཤེས་ཕྱིན་ཁྲི་པ།
shes phyin khri pa

  • Padmakara Translation Group. 2022. “The Transcendent Perfection of Wisdom in Ten Thousand Lines” 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha. read.84000.co

Aṣṭādaśasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitā
Perfection of Wisdom in Eighteen Thousand Lines
ཤེར་ཕྱིན་ཁྲི་བརྒྱད་སྟོང་པ།
sher phyin khri brgyad stong pa

  • Sparham, Gareth. 2022. “The Perfection of Wisdom in Eighteen Thousand Lines.” 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha. (read.84000.co)

Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikāprajñāpāramitā
ཤེར་ཕྱིན་སྟོང་ཕྲག་ཉི་ཤུ་ལྔ་པ། (ཉི་ཁྲི།)
Perfection of Wisdom in Twenty-five Thousand Lines

Śatasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitā
Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines
ཤེར་ཕྱིན་སྟོང་ཕྲག་བརྒྱ་པ། (འབུམ།) 
sher phyin stong phrag brgya pa

  • Conze, Edward. 1979. The Large Sutra on Perfect Wisdom, with the Divisions of the Abhisamayālaṅkāra. Motilal Banarsidass. JABL

Madhyamaka Hermeneutics

Quoted in major Madhyamaka treatises:

Akṣayamatinirdeśa
The Teaching of Akṣayamati
བློ་གྲོས་མི་ཟད་པས་བསྟན་པ།
blo gros mi zad pas bstan pa

  • Braavig and David Welsh, trans. 2022. “The Teaching of Akṣayamati.” 84,000: Translating the Words of the Buddha. read.84000.co

Samādhirājasūtra
The King of Samādhis Sūtra
ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོའི་མདོ།
ting nge ‘dzin gyi rgyal po’i mdo

  • Roberts, Peter Alan, trans. 2018/2022. “The King of Samādhis Sūtra.” 84,000: Translating the Words of the Buddha. read.84000.co

Quoted in Essence of Eloquence by Tsong-kha-pa:

Rāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchā
The Questions of Rāṣṭrapāla
ཡུལ་འཁོར་སྐྱོང་གིས་ཞུས་པ།
yul ‘khor skyong gyis zhus pa 

  • Vienna Buddhist Translation Studies Group. 2021/2022. “The Questions of Rāṣṭrapāla.” 84,000: Translating the Words of the Buddha. read.84000.co

Quoted by Candrakriti & Prajnakaramati:

Śālistamba
The Rice Seedling
སཱ་ལུའི་ལྗང་པ།
sA lu’i ljang pa

  • Dharmasāgara Translation Group. 2018/2020. “The Rice Seedling.” 84,000: Translating the Words of the Buddha. read.84000.co
  • Thabkhe Yeshe, Joshua W. Cutler and Diana Cutler, trans. 2020. The Rice Seedling Sutra: Buddha’s Teachings on Dependent Arising. Wisdom Publications. JABL

 

Ratnamegha
The Jewel Cloud
དཀོན་མཆོག་སྤྲིན།
dkon mchog sprin

  • Dharmachakra Translation Committee. 2019/2022. “The Jewel Cloud.” 84,000: Translating the Words of the Buddha. read.84000.co
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