A 1st look: Red Pine’s Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra as Jasmine Tea

[mzaur]

I've been interesting in reading a good translation of Lankavatara Sutra... I heard that DT Suzuki's translation is very eternalistic and Advaita. (Is that true?) If so, is this translation any different? Are there any other good ones out there?

[Jinzang]

D.T. Suzuki's translation of the Lankavatara Sutra has been criticized by Richard Hayes as being inaccurate. As he is the Sanskrit scholar and I am not, I suppose he is correct.

D.T.Suzuki interprets the sutra through the lens of Zen and the doctrine of buddha nature, which is going to upset some hard to please Buddhist scholars and cause them to call him names like crypto-Advaitin. But you should pay these critics no mind, it's all word games.

A new translation of an important text is always welcome, even if the translation is not scholarly.