The History of Buddhist Thought c26.63

c26.63

The most instructive piece of evidence is the Suvarṇaprabhāsa. This belongs to the Prajñāpāramitā class of sūtras. Like these sūtras it contains in the Sanskrit version no doctrine of the triple body, but later forms of the sūtra as preserved in translations contain an additional chapter on the subject. This means that the doctrine in its developed form has been adopted and inserted. The Yogāchāra school is the most probable source, but even in this school its formulation must be later than the Laṅkāvatāra.