Studies in the Lankavatara Sutra: One of the most important texts of Mahayana Buddhism, in which almost all its principal tenets are presented, including the teaching of zen
The Lankavatara Sutra is one of the nine principal Mahayana texts in Nepalese Buddhism; in China and Japan it also occupies an important position in the philosophy of Mahayana Buddhism as containing the doctrine of Mind only. Tatha gatagarbha, and Alayavijnana, the again in the literature of Zen Buddhism. The Lankavatara Sutra is a Mahayana text difficult in more than one way to understand perfectly as to its meaning and also in its proper historical setting. But its importance as giving most the fundamental tenets of Mahayana Buddhism has urged the author to publish whatever results he has gained so far in his study.
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