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The Lankavatara Sutra is one of the most important '' Sutra s'' (sacred texts) of Mahayana Buddhism . According to tradition, these are the actual words of the Buddha as he entered Sri Lanka (formerly called Ceylon ). This sutra figured prominently in the development of Chinese , Tibet an and Japan ese Buddhism. It is the cornerstone of Chinese Chan and its Japanese version, Zen , and was translated from Sanskrit into Japanese and English by the foremost exponent of Zen, Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki . The most important doctrine issuing from the Lanka is that of the primacy of Consciousness , often called simply " Mind Only", meaning that consciousness is the only Reality . The Sutra asserts that all the objects of the world, and the names and forms of experience, are merely manifestations of the mind. It is the erroneous concept of subject/object that ties us to the wheel of rebirth. The Lanka also suggests another important Mahayana doctrine, developed in later Buddhism, and that is the three bodies of Buddhahood, in effect the three levels of enlightened reality:
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