I'm happy to announce that volume two of the Great Collection Sūtra translation project by Dharmakāya books is now available: https://www.dharmakayabooks.org/publications#h.xf14heu71wz9

Here is the blurb:

The Great Collection Sūtra: A Translation of the Mahāsaṃnipāta Sūtra, Volume Two. This volume offers a complete translation of fascicles 14-30, or sections VIII-XII of the Mahāvaipulya Mahāsaṃnipāta Sūtra, the Great Extensive Collection Sūtra. This collection of closely related sūtras is probably one of the earliest compilations of Mahāyāna sūtras. It offers insights on the doctrines of emptiness, through the metaphor of space and inexhaustibility, the paradoxes of bodhisattva practice, the Mahāyāna reinterpretation of foundational Buddhist categories and doctrines, the continued confrontation with and redemption of Māra, eschatology and the age of decline, the technology of dhāraṇīs and magical protection techniques, the mutability of gender and the body, the sanctification of secular knowledge, hermeneutics and the "holographic" nature of the Dharma and many more. It was translated by Alexander James O'Neill (sections VIII-X & XII) and Dharmacakṣus Āloka (section XI).

This volume contains translations of the following sections of Taishō no. 397:

VIII. Gaganagañja (fascicle 14-18)
IX. Ratnaketu (fascicles 19-21
X. Gaganacakṣus (fascicles 22-24)
XI. Ratnacūḍa Bodhisattva (fascicles 25-26)
XII. Akṣayamati Bodhisattva (fascicles 27-30)

ISBN: 978-1-7394725-5-9