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Mahayana sutras
The Mahayana sutras are the core texts of the Mahayana tradition, which sets forth the bodhisattva path to buddhahood as the ideal path for the spiritually inclined.
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These texts appeared in Northern India sometime after the death of the Buddha. They are considered to be the word of the Buddha (buddhavacana) within the Mahayana tradition, but they are generally not considered as authentic teachings of the Buddha within the Theravada tradition.
The Mahayana sutras are largely preserved in the Chinese Buddhist canon, the Tibetan Buddhist canon, and in extant Sanskrit manuscripts. According to Andrew Skilton, around six hundred Mahayana sutras have survived to the present day (in the Chinese, Tibetan or Sanskrit languages).
History and background
Origins and early history
Modern scholars generally hold that Mahāyāna sūtras first began to appear in India between the 1st century BCE and the 1st century CE.
Much of the early evidence for the origins of these sut
