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Some modern scholars like Gishin Tokiwa also surmise that the sutra may have been compiled in [[Sri Lanka]] between 411 and 435, during a time when Mahayana Buddhism was popular in the island (at sites like [[Abhayagiri vihāra|Abhayagiri vihara]]) and the island also received visits from Chinese pilgrims like [[Faxian]].<ref>Gishin Tokiwa. ''Lankavatara Sutram. A Jewel Scripture of Mahayana Thought and Practice. A study of the Four-Fascicle Lankavatara Ratna Sutram'', p. xlvi. [[Hanazono University]], Kyoto. Printed by the Meibunsha Printing Co. Lts., Kyoto, Japan, 2003.</ref>
Four translations of the ''Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra'' were made from Sanskrit into the Chinese language between roughly 420 CE and 704, the earliest being attributed to [[Dharmarakṣa]] in the 5th
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