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Vimalakirti Nirdesha Sutra (Skt. Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa-sūtra; Tib. དྲི་མེད་གྲགས་པས་བསྟན་པའི་མདོ་, Wyl. 'dri med grags pas bstan pa'i mdo) (Toh. 176) — a popular Mahayana sutra featuring the lay bodhisattva Vimalakirti.

The Tibetan edition has 12 chapters:

Sara Boin, The Teaching of Vimalakirti (London: Pali Text Society, 1976, reprinted 1994). English version of Étienne Lamotte's French translation (see below)
Robert Thurman, The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti: A Mahayana Scripture
- First published by Pennsylvania State University Press in 1976
- Abridged introduction and notes, and lightly edited under the supervision of Professor Thurman for 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha, available here: The Teaching of Vimalakīrti (Vimalakīrtinirdeśasūtra)
Burton Watson, The Vimalakirti Sutra (Columbia University Press, 1996)

Lamotte, Étienne, L’Enseignement de Vimalakīrti, Louvain, 1962. Translated from Tibetan.
Carré, Patrick, Soûtra de la Liberté inconcevable : Les enseignements de Vimalakirti (Fayard, 2000). Translated from Chinese.

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 ==Tibetan Text==
 *[[Dergé Kangyur]] vol. 60 (mdo sde, ma), folios 175.a–239.a.<br/>{{TBRC|https://www.tbrc.org/#library_work_ViewByOutline-O1GS129804CZ209613%7CW22084| འཕགས་པ་དྲི་མ་མེད་པར་གྲགས་པས་བསྟན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།, Derge Kangyur, Volume 60, folios 175b–239a, (pp.349-478)}}
+===Content of the Tibetan Translation===
+The Tibetan edition has 12 chapters:
+#Purification of the [[Buddhafield]]
+#Inconceivable Skill in Liberative Art
+#The Disciples’ and the Bodhisattvas’ Reluctance to Visit Vimalakirti
+#The Consolation of the Invalid
+#The Inconceivable Liberation
+#The Goddess
+#The Family of the [[Tathagata]]s
+#The Dharma-Door of Nonduality
+#The Feast Brought by the Emanated Incarnation
+#Lesson of the Destructible and the Indestructible
+#Vision of the Universe Abhirati and the Tathagata [[Akshobhya]]
+#Antecedents and Transmission of the Holy Dharma
-==Translations==
+==Modern Translations==
 ===In English===
 *Sara Boin, ''The Teaching of Vimalakirti'' (London: Pali Text Society, 1976, reprinted 1994). English version of Étienne Lamotte's French translation (see below)