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The Sanghata Sutra (Ārya Sanghāta Sūtra; Devanagari, आर्य सङ्घाट सूत्र) is a Mahāyāna Buddhist scripture widely circulated in northwest India and Central Asia. History and background
Sangha. Community. This word has two levels of meaning: (1) on the ideal (arya) level, it denotes all of the Buddha’s followers, lay or ordained, who have at least attained the level of srotāpanna; (2) on the conventional (saṃvṛti) level, it denotes the orders of the Bhikṣus and Bhikṣunis.
"The Western scholars, the teachers Jinamitra, Surendrabodhi, Śīlendrabodhi, Dānaśīla and Bodhimitra together with the Tibetan scholars, Ratnarakṣita and Dharmatāśīla and others, having made translations from the Sanskrit of both Mahāyāna and Hīnayāna into Tibetan, made an index of the words they had used.
Regardless, since the Jatakastava written in its original language has been lost, [25]: 402 the Khotanese translation is the oldest surviving manuscript. The Sanghata Sutra was another text that was saved thanks to an early Khotanese translation that dates as early as the 5th century C.E.
The 29 Chapter Version was probably the most popular in Tibet and Tibetan Buddhist regions. [ citation needed ] In 2007, the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition , Lama Zopa Rinpoche 's Buddhist organization, produced a translation of the 21 chapter version of the Sutra, the most abbreviated and condensed version.
Classical Tibetan refers to the language of any text written in Tibetic after the Old Tibetan period. Though it extends from the 12th century until the modern day, [ 1 ] it particularly refers to the language of early canonical texts translated from other languages, especially Sanskrit .
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Uchen script is a written Tibetan script that uses alphabetic characters to physically record the spoken languages of Tibet and Bhutan. Uchen script emerged in between the seventh and early eighth century, alongside the formation and development of the Tibetan Empire.