Post-canonical Buddhist texts

In Buddhist studies, particularly East Asian Buddhist studies, post-canonical Buddhist texts, Buddhist apocrypha or Spurious Sutras and Sastras designate texts that are not accepted as canonical by some historical Buddhist schools or communities who referred to a canon. The term is principally applied to texts that purport to represent Buddhist teaching translated from Indian texts, but were written in East Asia.

Examples

 * Innumerable Meanings Sutra
 * Sutra of the Original Acts which Adorn the Bodhisattvas (菩薩本業瓔珞經, P'u-sa ying-lo pen-yeh ching)
 * Sutra of Adamantine Absorption (金剛三昧經, Kŭmgang sammaegyŏng)
 * Sutra on the Conversion of the Barbarians (老子化胡經, Lao-tzu Hua-hu ching)