བསླབ་པ་ལྔའ་ཕན་ཡན་གྱ་མད intro.2

intro.2

The Sūtra on the Benefits of the Five Precepts, or, as it is also called, The Sūtra That Teaches the Benefits of the Five Disciplines,¹ is among the few texts in the Tibetan Kangyur that also belong to the Theravāda tradition. It is the seventh of the so-called “thirteen late-translated sūtras.”² These were translated into Tibetan from Pali in the first decade of the fourteenth century at Tharpaling by Tharpa Lotsawa Nyima Gyaltsen Palsangpo and the visiting Sinhalese monk Ānandaśrī, at the request of Drakpa Gyaltsen, the local ruler of Zhalu.