འཕགས་པ་བླ་གྲས་རྒྱ་མཚས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.4

intro.4

This sūtra is one of four listed contiguously in the Degé Kangyur (Toh. 152-155) that contain some form of the name Sāgara in their title. In this sūtra, the interlocutor is Sāgaramati, a celestial bodhisattva, whereas in the three that follow, it is a nāga king named Sāgara. Despite their similarity in name and their proximity within the Degé Kangyur, the only connection between these four texts is that two of the three texts called The Questions of the Nāga King Sāgara, Toh 153 and 154, appear to have the same provenance.²