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Selections from the Mahāratnakūṭa Sūtra

The Mahāratnakūa Sūtra can be likened unto an ancient repository of forty-nine texts of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras. As such it is also known in its abbreviated title, the Ratnakūa Sūtra, or a heap containing some precious jewels of the Mahāyāna. There are indeed some great Dharma-Jewels contained within it. Our primary resource that houses excellent translations of these texts is A Treasury of Mahāyāna Sūtras: Selections from the Mahāratnakūa Sūtra, Translated from the Chinese by The Buddhist Association of the United States—Garma C.C. Chang, General Editor. As it states in the introduction: read more

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