The History of Buddhist Thought c27.7

c27.7

¹ They are said to have taken with them and translated the Sūtra of the forty-two Sections. This is not a sūtra in the ordinary sense, but a fairly complete summary of the doctrine, made up chiefly of a collection of Buddha's utterances. There is no trace of Mahāyāna doctrines in it. It is given in Sermons of a Buddhist Abbot, by the Rt. Rev. Soyen Shaku, Chicago, 1906. The best account of the missions is in P. C. Bagchi, Le Canon bouddhique en Chine, Paris, 1926.