ལས་རྣམ་པར་འབྱད་པ intro.24

intro.24

According to Lokesh Chandra, the Karmavibhaṅga was popular in China. Different recensions of the text were translated into Chinese altogether six times—some of them probably from versions transmitted via Central Asia, where the text was equally well known. The earliest translation dates to the third century ce.²⁹ All the different translations bearing various related titles, and possibly representing different recensions of the text, have been collectively called the Śukasūtra-class after Śuka Taudeyaputra,³⁰ the protagonist of the frame story. The Chinese translations, in the order of their dates of translation, are as follows: