The University of Nalanda c10.26

c10.26

Of these doctrines that came to be propounded and subsumed under the general term Mahāyāna, the one that became more popular than others at Nālandā was the "Sky-flower" doctrine.¹ This doctrine was fully explained in the Śuraṅgama Sūtra. The Sūtra was composed at Nālandā and was probably the work of Dharmapāla. There was another Sūtra of the same name, but it was totally different from the one in question. For it was translated by Kumārajīva and recited by Fa-hien at the Vulture Peak near Rājagṛha. This Sūtra was brought to China and translated in A.D. 705. The commentary on the Sūtra says, "This Sūtra was brought from India and belongs to the Murdhābhishikta school."²