[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Sūtras of meditation and contemplation](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhi) › [Samādhicakra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhi.samadhicakra) › [འཕགས་པ་ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་གྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhi.samadhicakra*bo) › [The Wheel of Meditative Concentration](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhi.samadhicakra*bo~en-84000) › intro.3 # འཕགས་པ་ཏང་ང་འཛན་གྱ་འཁར་ལ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.3 The Wheel of Meditative Concentration intro.3 - **Language:** English ### [intro.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhi.samadhicakra*bo~en-84000.intro.3) The sūtra was translated from Chinese, most likely in the Tibetan imperial era,¹ but it is not listed either in any of the early catalogs or in the Chinese Tripiṭaka.² It is one of a handful of sūtras found in the Degé Kangyur whose Chinese sources have not been identified.³ In addition to the Degé Kangyur, The Wheel of Meditative Concentration is only found in Kangyurs of the Tshalpa (tshal pa) group and in the Lhasa and Narthang Kangyurs. Among those, only the Lhasa version has a colophon, which simply identifies the Indian abbot Śīladharma and Nampar Mitokpa (rnam par mi rtog pa) as its translators from Chinese.⁴ - [Previous: intro.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhi.samadhicakra*bo~en-84000.intro.2) - [Next: intro.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhi.samadhicakra*bo~en-84000.intro.4) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhi.samadhicakra*bo~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhi.samadhicakra*bo~en-84000.intro.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhi.samadhicakra*bo~en-84000.intro.3) · Pramāṇa