Suttas / sūtras · 2026

Kṣitigarbha Sūtra · 地藏菩薩本願經

唐 實叉難陀譯

Complete main text of the identified Chinese source edition, with its prefatory material. Original XML retains the full critical apparatus. Optional tone-marked pinyin is a generated reading aid.

Traditional Chinese source edition. Pinyin is machine-generated and has not received competent pronunciation review. English, Malay and a Sanskrit parallel are not supplied by this edition; no equivalents are invented.
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Complete supplied text reflowed into semantic paragraphs. Source wording and credits retained; layout and navigation changed. Original edition links remain available.

CBETA Foundation electronic edition; Taishō source. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/), with CBETA usage notice and source header retained. Noncommercial only. This reflow and pinyin addition are distributed on the same terms; TRBS branding is excluded.

  • Text and translation: 唐 實叉難陀譯: CBETA Foundation electronic edition; Taishō source. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/), with CBETA usage notice and source header retained. Noncommercial only. This reflow and pinyin addition are distributed on the same terms; TRBS branding is excluded.
  • TRBS branding: Ti-Ratana Buddhist Society: Branding is separate from the open text licence.

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File integrity & release history

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Current edition: 2026-10-12.1. Source revision: 3f53b4227bb493661171b1c795c6eaa54ad8497333b5220d603167903be32113.

  • Added reading layers and explicit language coverage. Original source preserved; new translations labelled as study drafts. Restored omitted TEI lists where present.
  • Updated reader fonts, reviewed source-line mappings and exact language coverage. Added original English/Malay Medicine Buddha and Usnisa Vijaya study translations, with phonetic blocks identified. Repaired leaked CBETA glyph metadata from retained XML.

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