འཁར་གསལ་འཆང་པའ་ཀན་ཏ་སྤྱད་པའ་ཆ་ག intro.6

intro.6

Between the two lists of twenty-five rules in the Chinese, the list in the appendix is closer to the list in the Tibetan translation. Although significant differences remain, the list in the Chinese appendix and the list in the Tibetan translation follow the same order with just one exception.⁸ There is a Dunhuang Tibetan manuscript that contains a portion of The Sūtra on the Rattling Staff and The Rite for the Protocols Associated with Carrying the Ringing Staff.⁹ The colophon of this manuscript states that these two Tibetan texts were translated from the Chinese by the chief editor-translator Bandé Chödrup.¹⁰ This information indicates that both texts may have been translated from the relevant portions of De daoti cheng xizhang jing (Taishō 785),¹¹ with The Rite for the Protocols Associated with Carrying the Ringing Staff most likely based on the list in the Chinese appendix. More research on the available Tibetan textual witnesses is required before we can speak more conclusively about the nature of that dependence and the transmission of the Tibetan text.