འཕགས་པ་མ་ཏག་བརྩགས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས intro.5

intro.5

The Tibetan translation is recorded in the imperial catalogs¹ and we know of at least one fragment from the Dunhuang manuscript hoard, which was copied on the back of a Chinese scroll that contained a translation of the Diamond Sūtra (Vajra­cchedikā Prajñā­pāramitā).² In the Degé Kangyur, the text is included in both the Tantra section (Toh 516)³ and the Compendium of Dhāraṇīs (Toh 886).⁴ ⁵ The translators are not identified in these sources, but according to Butön Rinchen Drup (bu ston rin chen grub, 1290–1364), the dhāraṇī was translated by the well-known Tibetan scholar-monk, Yeshé Dé (ye shes sde).⁶