Avatamsaka Sutra

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The Avatamsaka Sutra is a monumental Mahayana Buddhist scripture renowned for its vast, visionary depiction of the interpenetrating cosmos and the path of the bodhisattva.

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Label	Occurrences
Avatamsaka Sutra canonical	3
Gaṇḍavyūha Sutra	1

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NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Avatamsaka Sutra
Context triple: [Huayan, hasCentralScripture, Avatamsaka Sutra]

A. Lotus Sūtra
The Lotus Sūtra is one of the most influential and revered Mahayana Buddhist scriptures, celebrated for its teachings on universal Buddhahood and the ultimate unity of all Buddhist paths.
B. Amitāyurdhyāna Sūtra
The Amitāyurdhyāna Sūtra is a key Mahayana Buddhist scripture that teaches meditative practices for visualizing Amitābha Buddha and attaining rebirth in his Western Pure Land.
C. Vaisesika Sutra
The Vaisesika Sutra is an ancient Indian philosophical text that systematizes the Vaisheshika school’s atomistic and realist metaphysics, detailing categories of reality such as substance, quality, and motion.
D. Lankāvatāra Sutra
The Lankāvatāra Sutra is a key Mahayana Buddhist scripture known for its teachings on mind-only philosophy, Buddha-nature, and the importance of direct experiential realization over conceptual understanding.
E. Vajrasekhara Sutra
The Vajrasekhara Sutra is a key esoteric Buddhist tantra that, together with the Mahavairocana Sutra, forms a primary doctrinal foundation for Shingon Buddhism’s ritual and cosmological system.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Avatamsaka Sutra
Target entity description: The Avatamsaka Sutra is a monumental Mahayana Buddhist scripture renowned for its vast, visionary depiction of the interpenetrating cosmos and the path of the bodhisattva.

A. Lotus Sūtra
The Lotus Sūtra is one of the most influential and revered Mahayana Buddhist scriptures, celebrated for its teachings on universal Buddhahood and the ultimate unity of all Buddhist paths.
B. Amitāyurdhyāna Sūtra
The Amitāyurdhyāna Sūtra is a key Mahayana Buddhist scripture that teaches meditative practices for visualizing Amitābha Buddha and attaining rebirth in his Western Pure Land.
C. Vaisesika Sutra
The Vaisesika Sutra is an ancient Indian philosophical text that systematizes the Vaisheshika school’s atomistic and realist metaphysics, detailing categories of reality such as substance, quality, and motion.
D. Lankāvatāra Sutra
The Lankāvatāra Sutra is a key Mahayana Buddhist scripture known for its teachings on mind-only philosophy, Buddha-nature, and the importance of direct experiential realization over conceptual understanding.
E. Vajrasekhara Sutra
The Vajrasekhara Sutra is a key esoteric Buddhist tantra that, together with the Mahavairocana Sutra, forms a primary doctrinal foundation for Shingon Buddhism’s ritual and cosmological system.
F. None of above. chosen