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Ch. Chinese
K Kumārajīva’s Ch. translation
X Xuanzang’s Ch. translation
The Vimalakīrti Sūtra
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84000’s translation, titled “The Teaching of Vimalakīrti,” includes an introduction and notes.
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Edition & attribution
84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha
First published 2017
Current version v 1.45.28
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འཕགས་པ་དྲི་མ་མེད་པར་གྲགས་པས་བསྟན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།
’phags pa dri ma med par grags pas bstan pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo
The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra “The Teaching of Vimalakīrti”
Āryavimalakīrtinirdeśanāmamahāyānasūtra
· Toh 176 ·
Degé Kangyur, vol. 60 (mdo sde, ma), folios 175.a–239.a
For referencing Tibetan sources, please see our Scholar’s Edition
TRANSLATED INTO TIBETAN BY
Chönyi Tsultrim
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- Kumārajīva
Translator of an influential Chinese version of this sūtra.
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- Sāriputta
Śāriputra appears in its teaching dialogues.
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Traditions & history4
- Translation into Chinese
Translation context for the text’s influential East Asian reception.
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- Mahāyāna movements
The broader bodhisattva setting of its lay teacher and dialogues.
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- Mahāyāna
Study context: this text is included in the Atlas guide to Mahāyāna.
- Chan · Seon · Thiền · Zen
Study context: this text is included in the Atlas guide to Chan · Seon · Thiền · Zen.
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- Emptiness & not-self
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The Teaching of Vimalakīrti