འཕགས་པ་ཤས་རབ་ཀྱ་ཕ་རལ་ཏ་ཕྱན་པ་ཀ་ཤ་ཀ་ཞས་བྱ་བ intro.8
The Perfection of Wisdom “Kauśika” intro.8
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The colophon to the Chinese translation ( ) notes that the sūtra was translated on imperial command by Dānapāla (Shihu 施護, ?–1017 ce), an Indian scholar-monk from Uḍḍiyāna who translated over one hundred works into Chinese.⁹ Just like the Sanskrit text, the Chinese translation has a slightly different textual structure and content than the Tibetan, and in the endnotes we have noted major differences between the Tibetan and Chinese versions.¹⁰