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==Titles== Its full Chinese title: {{Transliteration|zh|Dà fāngguăng yuánjué xiūduōluó liǎoyì jīng}} ({{lang|zh|大方廣圓覺修多羅了義經}}, {{literally|the Great [[:Category:Vaipulya sutras|Vaipulya (Corrective & Expansive)]] Sutra on the Perfect Enlightenment and (the Sutra) Joyful Cultivation of the Thorough Understanding}} {{efn|1={{Transliteration|zh|Duōluó}} ({{lang|zh|多羅}}) is a transcription of the first syllable of ''prasanna'', meaning ‘to joyfully seek’.<ref>[http://glossary.buddhistdoor.com/chi/word/5615/prasanna-citta BuddhistDoor Glossary]</ref> :: A ''nītārtha'' ({{lang|zh|了義}} {{Transliteration|zh|liǎoyì}}) sutra aims to reveal an exhaustive and unbiased array of teaching.<ref name=Soothill>{{cite book|last1=Soothill|first1=W.E.|author-link1=William Edward Soothill|last2=Hodous|first2=Lewis|author-link2=Lewis Hodous|title=A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms|year=1937}}</ref>}}). Its reconstructed title in Sanskrit is ''Mahāvaipulya pūrṇabuddha-sūtra prasannārtha-sūtra''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Nagendra Kumar Singh|title=International encyclopaedia of Buddhism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WUjYAAAAMAAJ|access-date=12 June 2011|volume=5|year=1996|publisher=Anmol Publications|isbn=978-81-7488-156-4|page=947}}</ref>{{efn|That ''sūtra'' appears twice in the title is not a typo, and this repetition has been remarked as peculiar by scholars.<ref name=DDrum/>}}
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