འཕགས་པ་སྐྱས་བ་དམ་པའ་མད intro.3

intro.3

There are no commentaries on this sūtra, and we have not yet found discussions of it in other Buddhist texts. According to the colophon, it was translated by the Indian paṇḍita Dharmākara and the Tibetan translator Zangkyong,⁴ and was revised by Kawa Paltsek. If that attribution is correct, the translation can be dated to the late eighth or early ninth century ce. The text is also included in the Denkarma catalog, dated to 812 ce, further confirming this dating.⁵