འཕགས་པ་གསར་གྱ་བྱ་མ་ལྟ་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.1

notes.1

1. The Stok Palace Kangyur, the only Kangyur of the Thempangma line consulted for this translation, renders the title of the sūtra with the Tibetan phye ma rather than the bye ma found in all the Kangyurs of the Tshalpa line. Both spellings, like the Sanskrit vāluka, can indicate any kind of powder or dust, including sand. Since in English “gold dust” is the common idiom, while “golden sand” would be ambiguous (between color and substance), we have rendered the title with the English “gold dust.”