Suttas / sūtras · 2026
The Śūraṅgama Sūtra · English
Buddhist Text Translation Society
All eight chapters of the CTTB English sūtra text. Source paragraph and volume/page references are retained. This is the CTTB web edition, not the different 2009 book translation. Introductions and commentary are linked separately.
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Current edition: 2026-10-12.1. Source revision: 8370f1d921ca6d6a0abdf56eb0a3dad8426eede919c61927e718456794d122e1.
- 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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