ལྷའ་མད་ཉང་ང notes.8
The Shorter Devatā Sūtra notes.8
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8. In Tibetan historiographic tradition, Songtsen Gampo (Tib. srong btsan sgam po), known in earlier sources as Tri Songtsen (Tib. khri srong btsan), is said to have established the law (Tib. khrims) proscribing the ten nonvirtues in the seventh century ce. In the early ninth century, the emperor Ralpachen (Tib. ral pa can) commanded a text on the ten nonvirtues to be copied in every corner of the empire. This may have been the teaching found in a number of extant copies from Dunhuang (such as IOL Tib J 606), a text that has been discussed by Van Schaik that was not included during the later compilation of the Kangyur and Tengyur. See Van Schaik 2016, pp. 13–27.