[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Tibetan canon (Kangyur & Tengyur)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet) › [Kangyur (translated words of the Buddha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur) › [General sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde) › [འཕགས་པ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་བྱམས་པ་དགའ་ལྡན་གནམ་དུ་སྐྱེ་བ་བླངས་པའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.199) › [The Sutra on Maitreya’s Birth in the Heaven of Joy](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.199~en-84000) › intro.6 # འཕགས་པ་བྱང་ཆབ་སམས་དཔའ་བྱམས་པ་དགའ་ལྡན་གནམ་ད་སྐྱ་བ་བླངས་པའ་མད intro.6 The Sūtra on Maitreya’s Birth in the Heaven of Joy intro.6 - **Language:** English ### [intro.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.199~en-84000.intro.6) The Tibetan colophon does not provide much detail beyond the fact that it was translated from a Chinese manuscript by the editor-translator Venerable Pabtong and Venerable Sherab Sengé. These two translators are not widely mentioned in other works cataloging the Tibetan translations. The sūtra is also absent from the ninth-century Denkarma catalog (Tib. dkar chag ldan dkar ma), which lists the Tibetan translations that had been produced up to that point—an absence that indicates a later date of translation. In producing this translation, we took as our basis the Tibetan Degé xylograph version and compared it to the variant readings recorded in the Comparative Edition (Tib. dpe bsdur ma). Furthermore, we compared the Tibetan with the Chinese of Taishō 452.⁸ In terms of Western languages, the sūtra has recently been translated into German from Chinese by Heyryun Koh (2008). This publication also proved helpful for our work on several occasions. - [Previous: intro.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.199~en-84000.intro.5) - [Next: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.199~en-84000.1) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.199~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.199~en-84000.intro.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.199~en-84000.intro.6) · Pramāṇa