Introduction
摘要
This PhD dissertation consists of an edition, translation and study of the Māyājāla-sūtra (“Sūtra on the Net of Illusion/Magic”) from the Dīrgha-āgama manuscript, which was acquired on the rare books market in London in the 1990s. The discovery of this manuscript was one of the most significant events in the recent early Buddhism scholarship, as it contained a considerable, relatively intact part of the Sanskrit Dīrgha collection, which was considered lost prior to that.