[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) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Sūtras of the Great Collection](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata) › [Ākāśagarbhasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.akasagarbhasutra) › [འཕགས་པ་ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.akasagarbhasutra*bo) › [The Akashagarbha Sutra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.akasagarbhasutra*bo~en-84000) › intro.8 # འཕགས་པ་ནམ་མཁའ་སྙང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.8 The Ākāśagarbha Sūtra intro.8 - **Language:** English ### [intro.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.akasagarbhasutra*bo~en-84000.intro.8) The Chinese version of this text differs significantly from the Tibetan translation found in the Kangyur.⁶ Although the basic content of both texts is the same, their structures are very different and the Chinese contains numerous passages not found in the Tibetan, and vice versa.⁷ It is justifiable, therefore, to speak of two different versions of the Ākāśa­garbha­sūtra. - [Previous: intro.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.akasagarbhasutra*bo~en-84000.intro.7) - [Next: intro.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.akasagarbhasutra*bo~en-84000.intro.9) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.akasagarbhasutra*bo~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.akasagarbhasutra*bo~en-84000.intro.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.akasagarbhasutra*bo~en-84000.intro.8) · Pramāṇa