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Meghasūtra manuscript preview Bibliothèque nationale de France

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Meghasūtra

ark:/12148/btv1b100829202

This Mahāyāna text (sometimes translated as the ‘cloud sermon’) records the Buddha teaching the Nāgarājas (serpent kings) rites to invoke rain through the power of dhāraṇ...