Shurangama Sutra: Text, Commentaries, and Articles
[Shurangama is also written as Surangama,
with Sanskrit diacritical marks as Śūraṅgama
or Śūraṃgama.]
Da Fo Ding Shou Leng Yan Jing
(Taisho Tripitaka, No. 945)
Compiled by Ron Epstein
Please send corrections and suggestions to epstein@sfsu.edu.
(Note: If you see nonsense characters, you need a Chinese browser to read
them.)
BREAKING NEWS: August 15, 2009 is the official publication date for an entirely
new and complete English version--The Śūraṅgama
Sutra: A New Translation with Excerpts from the Commentary by the Venerable
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CONTENTS:
- Sutra Text
- Comment on the Sutra and Mantra by the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua
- Other Articles and Essays
Shurangama Sutra in Chinese, CBETA text with marked links to Digital Dictionary of Buddhism
Shurangama Sutra in Chinese with the Commentary of the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua
Shurangama Sutra in Chinese with Zheng-mai Commentary
Shurangama Sutra in Chinese with Jiang-yi Commentary
Buddhist Text Translation Society's Draft English Translation of the Shurangama Sutra (2002 Interim Edition):
(Note: Please forward all corrections of the translation to me or to the Buddhist
Text Translation Society. The page numbers in the text refer to the pages in
the eight volume first edition of the Sutra and commentary. These files are in
Acrobat .pdf format and download very slowly. Volumes
one and eight take an especially long time to download.)
Volume
One
Volume
Two
Volume
Three
Volume
Four
Volume
Five
Volume
Six
Volume
Seven
Volume
Eight
Polish Translation of Volume Eight
Comment on the Sutra and Mantra by the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua
"The
Shurangama Mantra--The Efficacious Language of Heaven
and Earth" by the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua
"A
Sure Sign of the Proper Dharma: the Shurangama
Sutra" by the Venerable Master [Hsuan] Hua
"The
Shurangama Sutra Is Definitely Authentic" by the
Venerable Tripitaka Master Hsuan
Hua
"Is
the Shurangama Sutra an Inauthentic Sutra?" by the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua
Other Articles and Essays
Research on Authenticity of Surangama-Sutra by Chen Yo Bin, M.A. Thesis, Institute of Oriental Humanities, Huafan University, Shih Tin, Taipei Hsien, Taiwan, 1998. (English summary of the thesis, which is written in Chinese)
Ananda's Search
for the Mind in Seven Locations" by Ron Epstein.
"Foreword" by Ronald Epstein. The Fifty Skandha-Demon States: A Simple Explanation by the Venerable
Master Hsüan Hua. The Shurangama Sutra, Volume VIII, pp. vii-ix.
"The Shurangama Sutra: a Reappraisal of Its Authenticity" by Ronald Epstein
"Chinese Commentaries to the Surangama Sutra" compiled by Ronald Epstein, 1975.
Revised
June 2009.
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