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Gaṇḍa (Gaṇa/Ghana)-vyūha-Sūtra is considered as one of the Nava-Dharmas (new/nineaspects/ versions/parts/forms of the teachings of the Buddha), which are known as Vaipulya-Sūtras of the Nepalese Buddhism. These Vaipulya-Sūtras are not claimed to be the parts of any particular school/ sect within Mahāyāna Buddhism, and belong to different times. In Nepal, it is available in Nevārī script, and worshiped with great religiosity.Gaṇḍa-vyūha-Sūtra is a part of Buddhist Sūtra-literature, which is written to formulate the teachings of the Buddha. There seem to be two kinds of constraints behind composition of all the (Mahāyāna) Vaipulya-Sūtras that seem to have been composed. On the one hand orthodoxy of traditional practitioners insisting on the authenticity and primacy of earlier practices (based on the Tripiṭaka-literature), and on the other hand need to conceptually philosophize, expand, and transcend the limitations/lacunae seen/shown. Under such circumstances, how to advocate and disseminate thoughts of the Buddha appropriately was a prominent question faced by the then followers

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