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Tōhoku 217 Śrīguptasūtra (2021)
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(2021). Tōhoku 217 Śrīguptasūtra. [Website]. Fremont, CA

The Śrīgupta sūtra is the story of a plot against the life of the Buddha. Śrīgupta, a wealthy young Jain disciple, at his guru's instigation invites the Buddha to lunch at his house in Rājagṛha, where he secretly prepares a fire-trap and a poisoned m... Read More about Tōhoku 217 Śrīguptasūtra.

Tōhoku 83 : Bhadrapālaśreṣṭhiparipṛcchāsūtra : The Questions of Bhadrapāla the Merchant = ཚོང་དཔོན་བཟང་སྐྱོང་གིས་ཞུས་པ། (2017)
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(2017). Tōhoku 83 : Bhadrapālaśreṣṭhiparipṛcchāsūtra : The Questions of Bhadrapāla the Merchant = ཚོང་དཔོན་བཟང་སྐྱོང་གིས་ཞུས་པ།. [Website]. New York

In The Sūtra of the Master Craftsman Bhadrapāla's Questions, the Buddha’s principal interlocutor is a wealthy merchant who asks him to explain what consciousness is, and what happens to it when one dies and is reborn. In its characterization of cons... Read More about Tōhoku 83 : Bhadrapālaśreṣṭhiparipṛcchāsūtra : The Questions of Bhadrapāla the Merchant = ཚོང་དཔོན་བཟང་སྐྱོང་གིས་ཞུས་པ།.

Monastic and Lay Traditions in North-Eastern Tibet (2013)
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Dhondup, Y., Pagel, U., & Samuel, G. (Eds.). (2013). Monastic and Lay Traditions in North-Eastern Tibet. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004256422

In recent years, the Sino-Tibetan frontier regions have attracted increasing scholarly interest. The region of Rebkong in Qinghai province is of particular significance because of its unique location on the Sino-Tibetan borderland, its multi-ethnic p... Read More about Monastic and Lay Traditions in North-Eastern Tibet.

The Sacred Writings of Buddhism (2001)
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Pagel, U. (2001). The Sacred Writings of Buddhism. In P. Harvey (Ed.), Themes in Religious Studies: Buddhism (9-63). Pinter Publishing