By Kurtis Schaeffer (University of Virginia, 2009)
A collection of seventy-four works (D.288–D.361) classified as Hīnayāna scriptures forms the second part of the Sūtra section. As with the preceding Mahāyāna Scriptures, Situ Penchen’s catalog does not attempt to classify these works into distinct categories.
Essentially, we find three groups of texts here. The first is comprised of a twelfth century translation of the massive Application of Mindfulness in the Good Dharma (དམ་པའི་ཆོས་དྲན་པ་ཉེ་བར་གཞག་པ་, dam pa’i chos dran pa nye bar gzhag pa, saddharmasmṛtyupasthāna, D.288), which spans the better part of four volumes. Though this stands at the beginning of the Hīnayāna section, we might better consider it to stand between the Mahāyāna and Hīnayāna sections given that Situ acknowledges disputes over the classification of the work.
Next come the seven famous works (D.289-D.295) whose titles specify them as “Great Sūtras” (མདོ་ཆེན་པོ་, mdo chen po, mahāsūtra).
Finally, there is loose assemblage of sixty-six works in six volumes (D.296-D.361), representing the remainder of the Lesser Vehicle scriptures. Of note here is the Udānavarga (ཆེད་དུ་བརྗོད་པའི་ཚོམས་, ched du brjod pa’i tshoms, D.327), a Sanskrit recension of a work more widely known in its Pāli version the Dhammapāda, or Dharma Verses. Also here are the Hundred [Tales] of Karma (ལས་བརྒྱ་ཐམ་པ་, las brgya tham pa, karmaśataka, D.341), a massive collection (in 437 folios) of narratives of the Buddha that is extant only in Tibetan; and the famous Central Asian scripture the Sūtra of the Wise and Foolish (མཛངས་བླུན་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་མདོ་, mdzangs blun zhes bya ba’i mdo, damamūkonāmasūtra, D.342). The section also includes several groupings of related texts, such as four paryāya works (D.318-D.321), five gāthā works (D.322-D.326), and a handful of narratives of the Buddha’s lives (D.344-D.350). These are followed by sūtras either translated from Chinese or without a translator's colophon, which conclude the section (D.351-D.361).
Literature:
Below are references related to some of the major works in this section of the Kangyur.
Saddharmasmṛtyupasthāna Sūtra
Udānavarga