(The Great Parinirvana Sutra -Mahayana)

[Redacted from the Chinese of Dharmakshema by Huiyan, Huiguan, and Xie Lingyun and translated into English by Charles Patton unless otherwise noted. Only those chapters shown in bold-face type are included on this website.]

  1. Introduction
2. Cunda
3. Lamentations
4. Long Life Span (Translated from the Chinese of Kumarajiva by Kosho Yamamoto)
5. The Adamantine Body (Translated from the Chinese of Kumarajiva by Kosho Yamamoto)
6. The Merit of the Title
7. The Four Characteristics
8. The Four Dependables
9. Wrong and Right
10. The Four Truths
11. The Four Inverted Views
12. The Tathàgata’s Nature (Translated from the Chinese of Kumarajiva by Kosho Yamamoto)
13. The Written Characters
14. The Bird Parable
15. The Moon Parable
16. The Bodhisattva
17. The Questions of All the Great Assemblies
18. Manifestation of Illness (Translated from the Chinese of Kumarajiva by Kosho Yamamoto)
19. The Noble Practice
20. The Brahmin Practice
21. The Newborn Practice
22. Bodhisattva Light of Universal Illumination of the Highest Virtue King
23. Bodhisattva Lion’s Roar
24. Bodhisattva Kàsyapa
25. Kauõóinya