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Mahāmeghasūtra

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The Mahāmeghasūtra, also known as the Great Cloud Sūtra, is a Mahayāna Buddhist text that is part of the tathāgatagarbha (Buddha-nature) tradition. It is characterized by teachings on the permanence of the Buddha and the concept that the Buddha does not truly pass away into parinirvāṇa. The sutra also includes discussions on liberation, samādhi, dhāraṇīs, docetism, the four inversions, and the prohibition of meat-eating, according to Buddha-Nature (Tsadra). (Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, entry on Mahāmeghasūtra and 84000, https://84000.co/translation/toh232) . This mss has cramped writing, in the bottom two lines starting from folio 6a to 10b.

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