ལས་ཀྱ་རྣམ་པར་འགྱར་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་ཆས་ཀྱ་གཞང intro.25

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Walter Simon noted three distinguishing features of Tib-3 in comparison to Toh 338 and 339: (1) “the preservation … of the ‘introductory tale,’ ” (2) the absence of the “illustrative stories,” and (3) “the inclusion of … a table of contents.” These features, he wrote, “point to an earlier Sanskrit original.”²⁴ Transformation of Karma, too, contains a a table of contents, and it lacks stories illustrating the various karmic categories. But, more importantly, it also lacks the introductory tale characteristic of the (Mahā-)­Karma­vibhaṅga (Lévi 1932, 21–29) and its Tibetan version in the manuscript Kangyur of the British Museum.