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Info on Mahakarmavibhangga

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I've been reading an article on the temple of Borobudur in Indonesia and learned that the bottom platform has a cycle of low reliefs based on a Mahayan Buddhist text called Mahakarmavibhangga, which in some places has been translated as “Great Exposition of the Law of Karma”.

Couldn't find much information about it, except for the fact that the original is definitely of Sanskrit origin and that it naturally deals with karma, accumulation of merit, rebirth, causality, etc.

Apparently it has not been (fully) translated to English, at least by late 2000's, the date of one of the links with info I found. Can someone confirm that it still remains untranslated? Does anyone know more about it and could provide links or sources to continue leaning about it?
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Re: Info on Mahakarmavibhangga

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Don't know if you have already seen this, but there is photodharma site about the Borobudur images, which has a section of Karmavibhanga:
"160 public domain photographs from Borobudur, Java, showing the reliefs the results of good and bad deeds, together with a translation of the Karma-vibhanga text." https://www.photodharma.net/Indonesia/0 ... Wealth.htm

Complete Borobudur images https://www.photodharma.net/Indonesia/Indonesia.htm
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Re: Info on Mahakarmavibhangga

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Aemilius wrote: Sat May 28, 2022 10:09 am Don't know if you have already seen this, but there is photodharma site about the Borobudur images, which has a section of Karmavibhanga:
"160 public domain photographs from Borobudur, Java, showing the reliefs the results of good and bad deeds, together with a translation of the Karma-vibhanga text." https://www.photodharma.net/Indonesia/0 ... Wealth.htm

Complete Borobudur images https://www.photodharma.net/Indonesia/Indonesia.htm
Thanks for these links Aemilius, I was certainly not acquainted with it. These will provide good pictorial references to continue learning about the site.
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