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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 109. Chapters: Buddhist tantras, Mahayana sutras, P¿li Canon, S¿tra, Lankavatara Sutra, Svaha, Prajnaparamita, Kalachakra, Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra, Heart Sutra, N¿lakantha dh¿ran¿, Avalokite¿vara, Hevajra, Shurangama Mantra, Vajrayogini, ¿gama, Lotus Sutra, Samadhiraja Sutra, Six Yogas of Naropa, Anuttarayoga Tantra, Hayagriva, Vimalakirti Sutra, Chinese Buddhist canon, Shurangama Sutra, Manjusri, Samantabhadra Meditation Sutra, Diamond Sutra, Kulayar¿ja Tantra, Mah¿k¿la, Paracanonical texts, Guhyagarbha tantra, Tath¿gatagarbha S¿tra, Completion stage, Heart of Wisdom, Tripitaka Koreana, Avatamsaka Sutra, Sitatapatra, Sutra of Forty-two Chapters, Sandhinirmocana Sutra, Infinite Life Sutra, Kangyur, ¿r¿m¿l¿dev¿ S¿tra, Sangy¿ Gisho, Innumerable Meanings Sutra, Ekottara Agama, Mahamaya-tantra, Shurangama Samadhi Sutra, Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana, K¿rä¿avy¿has¿tra, Outer Tantras, Ekajati, Golden Light Sutra, Tattvasägraha Tantra, Taish¿ Shinsh¿ Daiz¿ky¿, Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment, Yamantaka, Nik¿ya, Mañju¿r¿n¿masamg¿ti, Amitabha Sutra, 35 Buddhas, Humane King Sutra, Shin'yaku Kegonky¿ Ongi Shiki, Angulimaliya Sutra, Akasagarbha, Generation stage, Tengyur, Brahmajala Sutra, Sutra of The Great Vows of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, Ten Stages Sutra, Vajrasekhara Sutra, Mah¿ratnak¿¿a S¿tra, Lalitavistara Sutra, Cakrasävara Tantra, Threefold Lotus Sutra, Inner Tantras, Suchandra, Mahasamnipata Sutra, Mahayana-sutra-alamkara-karika, Yamari, Primal Vow, Buddhist Institute, Cambodia, Ullambana Sutra, Sutrasamuccaya, Mahaprajnaparamita Sutra, Mañju¿r¿-m¿la-kalpa, Gandavyhua Sutra, List of suttas, Arya-suvarnaprabhasottama-sutrendraraja-nama-mahayana-sutra. Excerpt: Mah¿y¿na sutras are a broad genre of Buddhist scriptures that are accepted as canonical by the various traditions of Mah¿y¿na Buddhism. These are largely preserved in the Chinese Buddhist canon, the Tibetan Buddhist canon, and in extant Sanskrit manuscripts. Some six hundred Mah¿y¿na sutras have survived in Sanskrit or in Chinese and Tibetan translations. The origins of Mah¿y¿na are still not completely understood. The earliest views of Mah¿y¿na Buddhism in the West assumed that it existed as a separate school in competition with the so-called "H¿nay¿na" schools. Due to the veneration of buddhas and bodhisattvas, Mah¿y¿na was often interpreted as a more devotional, lay-inspired form of Buddhism, with supposed origins in st¿pa veneration, or by making parallels with the history of the European Protestant Reformation. These views have been largely dismissed in modern times in light of a much broader range of early texts that are now available. These earliest Mah¿y¿na texts often depict strict adherence to the path of a bodhisattva, and engagement in the ascetic ideal of a monastic life in the wilderness, akin to the ideas expressed in the Rhinoceros S¿tra. The old views of Mah¿y¿na as a separate lay-inspired and devotional sect are now largely dismissed as misguided and wrong on all counts. The earliest textual evidence of "Mah¿y¿na" comes from s¿tras originating around the beginning of the common era. Jan Nattier has noted that in some of the earliest Mah¿y¿na texts such as the Ugraparip¿ccha S¿tra use the term "Mah¿y¿na", yet there is no doctrinal difference between Mah¿y¿na in this context and the early schools, and that "Mah¿y¿na" referred rather to the rigorous emulation of Gautama Buddha in the path of a bodhisattva seeking to become a fully...