Editing Tibetan Buddhism (section)

=== Sutras ===
[[File:Konchog-wangdu.jpeg|thumb|Buddhist monk Geshe Konchog Wangdu reads [[Mahayana sutra]]s from an old woodblock copy of the Tibetan [[Kangyur]]. He is seated at a special sutra stool, wearing the traditional woolen Ladakhi hat and robe, allowed by Vinaya for extremely cold conditions.]]

Among the most widely studied sutras in Tibetan Buddhism are [[Mahayana sutras|Mahāyāna sutras]] such as the ''Perfection of Wisdom'' or [[Prajnaparamita|''Prajñāpāramitā'']] sutras,{{sfnp|Powers|2007|pp=103–104}} and others such as the ''[[Sandhinirmocana Sutra|Saṃdhinirmocana-sūtra]],'' and the ''[[Samadhiraja Sutra|Samādhirāja Sūtra]].''<ref>{{cite book |first1=Luis O. |last1=Gomez |first2=Jonathan A. |last2=Silk |title=Studies in the Literature of the Great Vehicle: Three Mahayana Buddhist Texts |place=Ann Arbor |publisher=University of Michigan |series=Michigan studies in Buddhist literature |date=1989 |page=viii |isbn=9780891480549 |oclc=20159406}}</ref>

According to [[Je Tsongkhapa|Tsongkhapa]], the two authoritative systems of Mahayana Philosophy (viz. that of Asaṅga – Yogacara and that of Nāgārjuna – Madhyamaka) are based on specific Mahāyāna sūtras: the ''Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra'' and the [[Akṣayamatinirdeśa Sūtra|''Questions of Akṣayamati'' (''Akṣayamatinirdeśa Sūtra'')]] respectively. Furthermore, according to [[Thupten Jinpa]], for Tsongkhapa, "at the heart of these two hermeneutical systems lies their interpretations of the Perfection of Wisdom sūtras, the archetypal example being the ''Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines''."<ref>{{cite book |author=Thupten Jinpa |year=2019 |title=Tsongkhapa A Buddha in the Land of Snows |series=Lives of the Masters |pages=219–220 |publisher=Shambhala}}</ref>