མད་ཆན་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་དམ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ intro.10
The Mahāsūtra “The Crest Insignia” (2) intro.10
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This translation was made from the version of the Tibetan text in the Degé Kangyur, in consultation with the critical edition published by Skilling¹³ based on twelve Tibetan versions, including the Peking, Lithang, Degé, and Narthang xylographs, the Stok palace manuscript, and two “independent editions” from monasteries that “do not reproduce any other single Kanjur, and do not have any significant descendants.”¹⁴ While there are quite a few differences between the sources and parallel texts that Skilling compared in his comprehensive study of this work,¹⁵ none of them much affects the meaning of the translation presented here.