འཕགས་པ་བྱམས་པས་དམ་བཅས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས intro.6
The Dhāraṇī “Maitreya’s Pledge” intro.6
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The dhāraṇī was also translated into Chinese by Faxian (法賢 337–422).³ The Chinese version diverges in several ways. It begins with a narrative opening (nidāna) and includes a dialogue between the Buddha Śākyamuni and Maitreya. It would seem that these variations are unique to the version of the dhāraṇī transmitted to China since they do not appear in the Tibetan or the (albeit, much later) Sanskrit recensions.