Mahāyānaśraddhotpāda-śastra

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Mahāyānaśraddhotpāda-śastra (Treatise on the Awakening of Faith in the Mahāyāna). A Mahāyāna Buddhist text, attributed to Aśvaghoṣa, though it comes in fact from c.4th/5th cent. CE. It is a sūtra which was also of importance in Zen.

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