འཕགས་པ་སྒྱ་མ་མཁན་བཟང་པ་ལང་བསྟན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.19

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While there is no extant Sanskrit original, there are two translations found in the Chinese Tripiṭaka. The earlier Chinese version was made by Dharmarakṣa (竺法護) in the third or fourth century ce (Taishō 324), the other by Bodhiruci (菩提流志; Taishō 310), along with many of the other texts in the Heap of Jewels collection, between 706 and 713 ce.⁹ Bodhiruci’s later version is much shorter, omitting most of the sets of four found in Dharmarakṣa’s translation and in the Tibetan.