Buddhist apocrypha

In Buddhist studies, particularly East Asian Buddhist studies, Buddhist apocrypha designate texts that are not accepted as canonical by the various traditions of Buddhism. In East Asian Buddhist studies, the term is principally applied to texts that were actually written in East Asia, primarily China, but purport to be translations of Indian texts.

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Many of these texts were rejected by Buddhist monks or even banned as of low religious value and mostly have been lost.