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འཕགས་པ་འཇམ་དཔལ་གྱ་མཚན་བརྒྱ་རྩ་བརྒྱད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ notes.6

One Hundred and Eight Names of Mañjuśrī notes.6

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notes.6

6. That attribution notwithstanding, we note that in the preface to his 1930 article “Laudatory Verses of Mañjuśrī” Ryūjō Kambayashi writes, “The laudatory verses of the hundred-and-eight names of Mañjuśrī seem to have begun with the Chinese transcription of Amogha (Fukū 705–744 A.D.),” a reference to Amoghavajra (705–74), the famous translator of Indian Buddhist tantric works into Chinese.