འཕགས་པ་ཚངས་པས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.11

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Brahmā’s Question was translated into Tibetan by the Indian preceptor Jinamitra and the Tibetan translator Bandé Yeshé Dé in the late eighth or the early ninth century. The translation is attested in both of the extant early ninth-century imperial catalogs of translated texts—the Phangthangma and the Denkarma.¹ The Sanskrit original seems to have been lost. The sūtra does not appear to have been translated into Chinese and is not included in the Chinese Buddhist canon. A Mongolian translation from Tibetan is found in the Mongolian Kangyur. An English translation by Peter Skilling is included in his anthology of translations, Questioning the Buddha, published in 2021. No modern academic treatments have been identified.