འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱ་རྟགས་པ་བརྗད་པ་ཤས་ལྡན་གྱ་མད intro.4
The Sūtra of Jñānaka intro.4
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The Sūtra of Jñānaka survives only in Tibetan translation; there are no extant Sanskrit witnesses, and it does not appear to have been translated into Chinese. The Sūtra of Jñānaka is listed in the Denkarma (Tib. ldan/lhan dkar ma) and Phanthangma (Tib. ’phang thang ma) catalogs,² the two extant indexes of translations from the Imperial Period (629–841 ce). The sūtra’s colophon states that the sūtra was translated by the Tibetan monk and prolific translator Kawa Paltsek (ca. eighth century) together with the Indian preceptors Vidyākarasiṃha and Sarvajñādeva. This evidence allows us to date the Tibetan translation of The Sūtra of Jñānaka to approximately the eighth century.