Suttas / sūtras · 2026

Medicine Buddha Sūtra · 藥師琉璃光如來本願功德經

唐 玄奘譯

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 with new full English and Malaysian Malay study versions. Historical wording is preserved; phonetic dharani, where present, is identified rather than given invented meanings.
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Sources & credits

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 玄奘譯: 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

SHA-256: 78a0bd8e389e2b68857e369fc8152170952f1847f448faf9af7ff48c13867657

Current edition: 2026-10-12.1. Source revision: e0a3b12e463d735c3bc12351df4589538d58d4744ff87648e0adc34c0ec4bacb.

  • 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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