History
It is traditionally attributed to Buddhatrāta, an Indian or Kashmiri monk otherwise unattested in history, who translated the work from Sanskrit in 693 in the White Horse Temple of Luoyang. Some scholars, however, believe it to be Chinese in origin and written in the late 7th or early 8th century C.E. It is considered a creative reformulation that assembles the teaching from the Shurangama Sutra and Awakening of Faith, which in terms are also texts whose origin has been scrutinized.
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