[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Āgama sūtras of the mainstream schools](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama) › [Sūtras of the Connected Discourses transmitted singly](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.samyukta) › [Dhvajāgramahāsūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.samyukta.dhvajagramahasutra) › [མདོ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་མཆོག་ཅེས་བྱ་བ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.samyukta.dhvajagramahasutra*bo) › [The Mahasutra “The Crest Insignia” (1)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.samyukta.dhvajagramahasutra*bo~en-84000) › intro.8 # མད་ཆན་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་མཆག་ཅས་བྱ་བ intro.8 The Mahāsūtra “The Crest Insignia” (1) intro.8 - **Language:** English ### [intro.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.samyukta.dhvajagramahasutra*bo~en-84000.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. - [Previous: intro.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.samyukta.dhvajagramahasutra*bo~en-84000.intro.7) - [Next: intro.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.samyukta.dhvajagramahasutra*bo~en-84000.intro.9) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.samyukta.dhvajagramahasutra*bo~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.samyukta.dhvajagramahasutra*bo~en-84000.intro.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.samyukta.dhvajagramahasutra*bo~en-84000.intro.8) · Pramāṇa