Source: Nattier 2006a

Nattier, Jan. “The Proto-History of the Buddhāvataṃsaka: The Pusa benye jing and the Dousha jing .” ARIRIAB 8 (2006): 323-360.

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T284 has virtually the same content as T283, but where the discourse is in the mouth of Dharmamati in T283, in T284, it is placed in the mouth of the Buddha, and the explanation of the ten stages of the bodhisattva path is presented as a response to a question from Mañjuśrī. T284 also has a frame narrative matching material in T1487, and Nattier proposes that this material is borrowed from T1487 into T284.

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 T284 has virtually the same content as T283, but where the discourse is in the mouth of Dharmamati in T283, in T284, it is placed in the mouth of the Buddha, and the explanation of the ten stages of the bodhisattva path is presented as a response to a question from Manjusri. T284 also has a frame narrative matching material in T1487, and Nattier proposes that this material is borrowed from T1487 into T284. T0284; 佛說菩薩十住經