Shurangama Sutra: Text, Commentaries, and Articles

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.)

• Sutra Text
• Comment on the Sutra and Mantra by the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua
• Other Articles and Essays

Sutra Text

Shurangama Sutra in Chinese, Version I (Chinese browser necessary)
Shurangama Sutra in Chinese, Version II (Chinese browser necessary)
Shurangama Sutra in Chinese, Version III (Chinese browser necessary)
Shurangama Sutra in Chinese, Version IV (Chinese browser necessary)

Volume One
Volume Two
Volume Three
Volume Four
Volume Five
Volume Six
Volume Seven
Volume Eight

"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

Research on Authenticity of Surangama-Sutra by Chen Yo Bin, M.A. Thesis, Institute of Oriental Humanities, Huafan University, Shih Tin, Taipei Hien, Taiwan, 1998. (English summary of the thesis, which is written in Chinese)

Ananda's Search for the Mind in Seven Locations" by Ron Epstein. Vajra Bodhi Sea: A Monthly Journal of Orthodox Buddhism, March, 1975, pp. 17-23.

"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. Burlingame, CA: Buddhist Text Translation Society, 1996. Chinese translation (Chinese browser necessary).

"The Shurangama Sutra: a Reappraisal of Its Authenticity" by Ronald Epstein