འཕགས་པ་ཁྱའ་བཞའ་ཏང་ང་འཛན་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.76

notes.76

76. This enumeration of eight buddhas of the past—with the addition of Śākyamuni making nine—is unusual. The last three buddhas are also found in the more widely-attested scheme of the seven buddhas that was common in early Buddhism. All nine, including the first five (in the same order as here) are found in the fragmentary Gandhārī version of the “Many Buddhas Sūtra,” as translated by Salomon (2018, p. 284). Five of the buddhas in this list, though in different order, are also included in an enumeration of eleven buddhas in The Stem Array (Gaṇḍavyūha, Toh 44-45), .