མ་ག་དྷ་བཟང་མའ་རྟགས་པ་བརྗད་པ intro.12

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According to the colophon in the Tibetan Kangyur, the Tibetan translation of the sūtra was produced by Dharmaśrībhadra and Tsültrim Yönten (tshul khrims yon tan) and later corrected by Rinchen Sangpo (rin chen bzang po, 958–1055). Given that Dharmaśrībhadra is also said to have lived sometime during the late tenth to the mid-eleventh century, one may tentatively date the translation to the early eleventh century.²¹ In support of this dating is the fact that the sūtra is not listed in the Denkarma (ldan/lhan dkar ma) or Phangthangma (’phang thang ma) imperial catalogs from the ninth century.