[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.9 # འཕགས་པ་ནམ་མཁའ་སྙང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.9 The Ākāśagarbha Sūtra intro.9 - **Language:** English ### [intro.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.akasagarbhasutra*bo~en-84000.intro.9) The Tibetan text was prepared by the Indian paṇḍita Śākyaprabha and the Tibetan Bandé Ratnarakṣita, probably in the 9th century ce.⁸ But even though the Kangyur contains only one Ākāśa­garbha­sūtra, we do have alternative translations of some of its passages. The Śikṣāsamuccaya by Śāntideva, of which the Sanskrit has survived as well as its translation into Tibetan, quotes extensively from the sūtra.⁹ - [Previous: intro.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.akasagarbhasutra*bo~en-84000.intro.8) - [Next: intro.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.akasagarbhasutra*bo~en-84000.intro.10) - [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.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.akasagarbhasutra*bo~en-84000.intro.9) · Pramāṇa