འཕགས་པ་རག་སྔགས་ཀྱ་རྒྱལ་པ་སྒྲན་མ་མཆག་ག་གཟངས intro.8

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Included in this wide geographic and temporal range is the Tibetan translation of The Dhāraṇī of Agrapradīpa. The text lacks a translator’s colophon, making it challenging to determine the precise date of its translation and to identify its translators. The text is recorded in both the Denkarma and Phangthangma imperial-period catalogs, indicating that it was translated no later than the Tibetan Empire’s collapse in the mid-ninth century.⁶ This would place its translation roughly approximate to the Khotanese fragment, and falling between the Chinese translations of Jñānagupta and Dānapāla. As is often the case with works of the dhāraṇī genre, The Dhāraṇī of Agrapradīpa appears twice in the Kangyur, once in the Tantra section (Toh 528), and once in the Dhāraṇī section (Toh 858). There is practically no difference between these two versions, apart from minor orthographic variants.