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འཕགས་པ་ཚ་དང་ཡ་ཤས་དཔག་ཏ་མད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.12

The Aparimitāyurjñāna Sūtra (1) intro.12

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intro.12

The name of the buddha who is the subject of this sūtra has three forms, of different lengths. The shortest version of his name is Aparimitāyus. The medium-length version is Aparimitāyur­jñāna (“Immeasurable Longevity and Wisdom”), and figures in the title of the sūtra. The longest form of the name, also in the sūtra, is Aparimitāyur­jñāna­suviniścita­tejo­rāja (“The Blazing King Who Is Completely Certain of Immeasurable Longevity and Wisdom”).⁵