Commentary on the Mahaparinirvana Sutra
Yongle Northern Canon
"Commentary on the Mahaparinirvana Sutra, eighteen fascicles" appears in the Yongle Northern Canon catalogue and is currently classified under "Yongle Northern Canon / Local Authored Works." It can be regarded as Buddhist authored literature, and typically has value for intellectual history, sectarian history, and textual transmission. OpenSutra has been arranged into readable fascicles according to the original catalogue order; specific image sources are indicated in each fascicle's record. The catalogue lists 33 fascicles; currently 11 are unpublished due to missing images: fascicle 018 (ID 2-5815, Thousand-Character Text fascicle number 土05), Commentary on the Mahaparinirvana Sutra, eighteen fascicles (01 upper) (ID 2-5783, Thousand-Character Text fascicle number 灭03), Commentary on the Mahaparinirvana Sutra, eighteen fascicles (01 lower) (ID 2-5784, Thousand-Character Text fascicle number 灭04), Commentary on the Mahaparinirvana Sutra, eighteen fascicles (02 upper) (ID 2-5785, Thousand-Character Text fascicle number 灭05), Commentary on the Mahaparinirvana Sutra, eighteen fascicles (02 lower) (ID 2-5786, Thousand-Character Text fascicle number 灭06), Commentary on the Mahaparinirvana Sutra, eighteen fascicles (03 upper) (ID 2-5787, Thousand-Character Text fascicle number 灭07), Commentary on the Mahaparinirvana Sutra, eighteen fascicles (03 lower) (ID 2-5788, Thousand-Character Text fascicle number 灭08), Commentary on the Mahaparinirvana Sutra, eighteen fascicles (04 upper) (ID 2-5789, Thousand-Character Text fascicle number 灭09) and 11 other fascicles.
Traditional Chinese