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# དཔང་སྐང་ཕྱག་བརྒྱ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ intro.6

Calling Witness with a Hundred Prostrations intro.6

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### [intro.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.267~en-84000.intro.6)

Thönmi is traditionally said to have been active as a scholar and translator during the time that the Potala palace and Jokhang temples were being built in Lhasa. Butön implies that this text may have been read or studied by the first great Tibetan Dharma King, Songtsen Gampo (srong btsan sgam po; r. ca. 618–650). As Butön explains:

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