མད་ཆན་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་མཆག་ཅས་བྱ་བ intro.8
The Mahāsūtra “The Crest Insignia” (1) intro.8
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intro.8
The foremost study of the Dhvajāgrasūtra [1] is Peter Skilling’s two-volume The Mahāsūtras: Great Discourses of the Buddha, which has greatly informed this introduction and translation. The first mention of the sūtra in Western scholarship came in the early nineteenth century from Alexander Csoma de Kőrös in his “Analysis of the Mdo,” in which he briefly surveyed the contents of the Mahāsūtras. The Dhvajāgrasūtra [1] was only very recently translated into English, when it appeared alongside the Dhvajāgrasūtra [2] and the Pali Dhajaggasutta in Skilling 2024.