འཕགས་པ་འཁར་གསལ་གྱ་མད intro.7
The Sūtra on the Ringing Staff intro.7
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A single text in the Taishō edition of the Chinese Tripiṭaka includes material found in both Toh 335 and Toh 336. The De daoti cheng xizhang jing (得道梯橙錫杖經, Taishō 785), the translation of which is dated to the Jin Dynasty (317–420 ce), contains a version of The Sūtra on the Ringing Staff, which enumerates two sets of twenty-five rules for how to use the staff.⁶ A short intervening section, which has no Tibetan parallel that we are aware of, provides further instructions on handling the staff. Writing in 1643 or 1644, the Chinese Buddhist monk Hongzan, following an earlier Chinese tradition, declared Taishō 785 to be an apocryphal text.⁷