Translations into Western Languages
The Gaṇḍavyūha Sūtra was translated into German from Buddhabhadra’s Chinese version by Dōi Torakazu as Das Kegon Sutra, Das Buch vom Eintreten in den Kosmos der Wahrheit in 1978.
The entire Avataṃsaka Sūtra has been translated from the Chinese by Thomas Cleary and published in 1993 as The Flower Ornament Scripture. The Gaṇḍavyūha Sūtra is therefore included as the final chapter, chapter 39, under the title “Entry into the Realm of Reality.”
The Śikṣānanda version has been translated from the Chinese into French by Patrick Carré. There is as yet no translation of the longest Chinese version, which was translated by the Kashmiri Prajñā in 798.
There have been partial unpublished translations from the Sanskrit by Mark Allen Ehman in 1977 and Yuko Ijiri in 2005.
Douglas Osto has translated the first part of chapter 1 and chapters 3, 54, and 55 from the Sanskrit of the Gaṇḍavyūha, with its title given as The Supreme Array. They are available to read on his website.34 He has also included excerpts from other chapters of the sūtra in his book Power, Wealth and Women in Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism: The Gaṇḍavyūha-sūtra.