Saddharmasmrtyupasthanasutra is a Buddhist sutra, probably completed by the beginning of the fifth century C.E, centered around a description of meditation practice. It consists of seven chapters. Chapter 1 is an explanation of karma, good and bad, and its results. Chapter 2 is an analysis of the human realm in samsara and a description of spiritual progress through ten stages (bhumis, not the same as the ten bhumis of Dasabhumikasutra). This chapter also contains an unusual version of the pratityasamutpada formula in which the relationship between feelings (vedana) and craving (trsna) is reversed. Stuart argues that this reversal has something to do with the meditative experience of monks. Chapters 3-6 are accounts of the realms of hell-beings, hungry ghosts (pretas), and gods, along with descriptions of the morally significant actions (karma) that lead to rebirth in each realm. Chapter 7 describes a meditation on the body. In the first six chapters, discourses on karma, cosmology, and mental functions are presented as the contents of a monk's meditation. Saddharmasmrtyupasthanasutra is very long, 417 pages in the Taisho edition of the Chinese translation.