HASTIKAKSHYA SUTRA
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goldenlight
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HASTIKAKSHYA SUTRA
Dear Dharma friends, does anyone have any idea of the Hastikakshya sutra,the name appears in the Lankavatara.It seems to be very rare,what teachings does it encompass ?
Re: HASTIKAKSHYA SUTRA
Skt: Hastikakṣya-nāma-mahāyāna-sūtra
Tib: གླང་པོའི་རྩལ་ཅེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།
Chn: 大象力經 or 象腋大乘經
Eng: The Sutra on the Elephants’ Exertions
It is being translated from the Tibetan by the 84,000 project though it's not clear from the website what progress has been made. I cannot see this text in CBETA however so not sure if there is a Chinese text. The Chinese title might just be a translation of the Tibetan.
See this bibliography for more info: http://read.84000.co/resources/Bibliogr ... 202006.pdf
The Hastikakṣya is also partially translated and discussed in an article by James Apple: The Phrase dharmaparyāyo hastagato in Mahāyāna Buddhist Literature: Rethinking the Cult of the Book in Middle Period Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism.
Tib: གླང་པོའི་རྩལ་ཅེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།
Chn: 大象力經 or 象腋大乘經
Eng: The Sutra on the Elephants’ Exertions
It is being translated from the Tibetan by the 84,000 project though it's not clear from the website what progress has been made. I cannot see this text in CBETA however so not sure if there is a Chinese text. The Chinese title might just be a translation of the Tibetan.
See this bibliography for more info: http://read.84000.co/resources/Bibliogr ... 202006.pdf
The Hastikakṣya is also partially translated and discussed in an article by James Apple: The Phrase dharmaparyāyo hastagato in Mahāyāna Buddhist Literature: Rethinking the Cult of the Book in Middle Period Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism.
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goldenlight
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Re: HASTIKAKSHYA SUTRA
Thank you for both the links.One feels intrigued by the sheer volume of texts,many of them still waiting to be unearthed and dispersed.