འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཀྱ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་གྱ་མད་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ intro.4

intro.4

No Sanskrit version of this sūtra is to our knowledge extant, and it does not appear to have been translated into Chinese. The translators of the text into Tibetan are unknown since none of the Tibetan versions carry a colophon. It is not listed in the Phangthangma or Denkarma catalogs of Tibetan imperial period translations, nor in Chomden Rikpai Raltri’s survey of translated texts compiled in the late thirteenth century. It is, however, listed in Butön Rinchen Drup’s catalog compiled in 1322.⁴ The sūtra is preserved in both the Tshalpa and Thempangma lineage Kangyurs, although under slightly different titles.⁵