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The manuscript consists primarily of gold-inlaid sutra pages; no dedicated illustration information was observed.
Manuscript ID: OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000066
Avataṃsaka Sūtra
Eighty scrolls with the “Samantabhadra’s Practices and Vows” appended; translated by the Tang Tripiṭaka master Shikshananda and the monk Prajña; Ming Hongzhi 16th‑year gold-inlaid manuscript; collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
The Avataṃsaka Sūtra is the foundational Mahāyāna scripture of the Huayan school. This item is a gold-ink manuscript copy from the sixteenth year of the Hongzhi reign of the Ming dynasty, consisting of eighty fascicles with the “Samantabhadra Practice and Vow Chapter” appended, and belongs to Huayan Buddhist literature and court manuscript materials.
The Avataṃsaka Sūtra is commonly known as the “Eighty-Fascicle Huayan,” translated by the Tang Tripiṭaka Śikṣānanda of Khotan, with the “Samantabhadra Practice and Vow Chapter” later translated by the Tang Tripiṭaka Prajñā of Kashmir appended. The title of this item identifies it as a gold-ink manuscript copy from the sixteenth year of the Hongzhi reign of the Ming dynasty and records it as collected by the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
Published: May 26, 2026
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Translated by the Tang Tripiṭaka master Shikshananda of Khotan; appended with the “Samantabhadra’s Practices and Vows” translated by the Kashmiri Tripiṭaka master Prajña.
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PDF: 2328 pages in total; images of the eighty‑scroll edition with one appended chapter, Ming Hongzhi 16th‑year gold-inlaid manuscript.
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Title, number of scrolls, translators, edition date, and holding institution are recorded based on the file name and page images.
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OpenSutra compiled and released; the copy is marked as in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
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References
CBETA “Avatamsaka Sutra”: https://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/zh/T0279 Wikisource “Avatamsaka Sutra”: https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E6%96%B9%E5%BB%A3%E4%BD%9B%E8%8F%AF%E5%9A%B4%E7%B6%93 Wikipedia “Avatamsaka Sutra (Huayan Sutra)”: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8F%AF%E5%9A%B4%E7%B6%93
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