འཕགས་པ་དགའ་བ་ཅན་གྱ་མད intro.5

intro.5

The Tibetan translation of The Sūtra of Nandika is included in most Kangyur collections¹¹ and one folio containing the first two pages of The Sūtra of Nandika is among the Tibetan manuscripts found in the cave library at Dunhuang.¹² All Tibetan versions have the title ’phags pa dga’ ba can gyi mdo, except for the Dunhuang fragment, which reads dga’ bo’i mdo.¹³ The Tibetan translations present the standard Sanskrit title Āryanandika­sūtra, while the two extant Sanskrit manuscripts have Āryanandika­pari­pṛcchā­sūtra (Skt1) and Nandika­pari­pṛcchā­sūtra (Skt2). The colophons from the Degé, Lhasa, and the independent Kangyurs such as Phukdrak, among others, mention the Indian paṇḍita Śākyasiṃha and the Tibetan translator Jingyi Nyingpo as its translators, and Devacandra as the editor.¹⁴