Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s5.t5.2
Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s5.t5.2
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Considering that there was no Tripitaka in Manchu though bod yig gyi bkav bstan vgyur and Tripitaka in Tibetan, Chinese and Mongolian were published before, Emperor Qianlong issued the edict of building a sutra academy to translate Tripitaka into Manchu to fill the cultural gap in 1773.