མཆག་ཏ་གདགས་པའ་མད intro.7
The Sūtra “Declaring What Is Supreme” intro.7
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The translators of The Sūtra “Declaring What Is Supreme” into Tibetan remain unidentified and the sūtra is not listed in any catalogs of the Tibetan imperial period. However, the striking similarity between the Tibetan of the sūtra and the version that appears in the Tibetan translation of the Avadānaśataka (Toh 343) suggests that these translations were unlikely to have been made independently of one another. The colophon of the Tibetan translation of the Avadānaśataka (Toh 343) states that it was translated by the scholars Jinamitra and Devacandra who were active in Tibet in the early ninth century. By extension therefore, the Tibetan translation of the The Sūtra “Declaring What Is Supreme” can perhaps also tentatively be dated to the early ninth century.