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).
Read more in the knowledge base article Discourses (Kangyur Section)
| Texts: 397 | Published: 203 | In Progress: 181 | Not Begun: 13 |
Sub-sections
Perfection of Wisdom
ཤེར་ཕྱིན།
sher phyin/
Prajñāpāramitā
The collection of discourses on the Perfection of Wisdom (Toh 8-30).
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).
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).
General Sūtra Section
མདོ་སྡེ།
mdo sde/
The principal collection of 266 sūtras, varied in length, subject, interlocutors and origins (Toh 94-359).
Thirteen late-translated sūtras
གསར་འགྱུར།
gsar 'gyur/
A group of Theravāda sūtras translated into Tibetan in the 14th century (Toh 31-43).
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