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ལས་རྣམ་པར་འབྱད་པ intro.33

The Exposition of Karma intro.33

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We can infer from the large number of surviving fragments of versions of the Karmavibhaṅga­sūtra from the Buddhist centers of the Central Asian oasis towns along the ancient Silk Road that this text and its cognate versions must also have been very popular among Central Asian Buddhists. We know of an old Khotanese version,³³ a Central Asian fragment in Sanskrit,³⁴ several fragments of a Kuchean version,³⁵ and a Sogdian version.³⁶