བཅམ་ལྡན་འདས་མ་ཤས་རབ་ཀྱ་ཕ་རལ་ཏ་ཕྱན་པའ་སྙང་པ notes.15

notes.15

15. On the Tibetan translations of the shorter version, see Attwood 2015, pp. 38–40. Interestingly, in addition to the Tibetan translations found at Dunhuang, one manuscript (Pelliot tibétain 448) consists of a transliteration into Tibetan of the Chinese text (a scan of this manuscript can be viewed at: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b83061587). This manuscript appears to have been produced for recitation of the Chinese text by those Tibetans in the region who could not read the Chinese characters. This could perhaps indicate that the Chinese version enjoyed a privileged status compared to the Tibetan translation, even by those who could only read Tibetan. For a scan of a Dunhuang manuscript with Tibetan translation of the short version, currently held at the British Library (Or. 8212/77), see: http://idp.bl.uk/database/large.a4d?recnum=7852&imageRecnum=122101.