འཕགས་པ་བསད་ནམས་ཐམས་ཅད་བསྡས་པའ་ཏང་ང་འཛན་ཅས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.18

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The Absorption That Encapsulates All Merit is extant in Tibetan and in two Chinese translations. In Sanskrit no complete version is known to have survived, but a fragment in Gāndhārī Prakrit, written in the Kharoṣṭhī script, is among the scrolls found in the Bamiyan area of western Gandhāra (in present-day Afghanistan), most of which date approximately from the late second to mid third century CE.² The Tibetan version was translated from Sanskrit by Prajñāvarman, Śīlendrabodhi, Yeshé Dé, “and others,” in the late eighth or early ninth centuries. Although it is not one of the best known sūtras, it is quoted in at least two Indian treatises in the Tengyur, and citations of several different passages appear in a number of Tibetan commentaries.