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’phags pa byang chub kyi phyogs bstan pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo. Toh 178, Degé Kangyur vol. 60 (mdo sde, ma), folios 240.b–244.b.

’phags pa byang chub kyi phyogs bstan pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo. bka’ ’gyur (dpe bsdur ma) [Comparative Edition of the Kangyur], krung go’i bod rig pa zhib ’jug ste gnas kyi bka’ bstan dpe sdur khang (The Tibetan Tripitaka Collation Bureau of the China Tibetology Research Center). 108 volumes. Beijing: krung go’i bod rig pa dpe skrun khang (China Tibetology Publishing House), 2006–2009, vol. 60, pp. 640–649.

’phags byang chub gyi phyogs bstan pa zhes bya ba thegs pa chen po’i mdo. Stok no. 88, Stok Palace Kangyur (stog pho brang bris ma), vol. 60 (mdo sde, chi), folios 358.b–364.a.

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Foshuo dacheng shanjian bianhua wenshushili wenfa jing (佛説大乘善見變化文殊師利問法經). Translated by Tianxizai. In Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō, edited by Junjirō Takakusu and Kaigyoku Watanabe, vol. 14, no. 472, 514c–516b. Tokyo: Taishō issaikyō kankōkai, 1924–1932.

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Mahāvyutpatti (bye brag tu rtogs par byed pa). Degé Tengyur, vol. 204 (sna tshogs, co), folios 1.1–131.a. See also Sakaki; and Braarvig.

Tsanlha Ngawang Tsultrim (btsan lha ngag dbang tshul khrims). brda dkrol gser gyi me long. Beijing: mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 1997.

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’phags pa byang chub kyi phyogs bstan pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo

The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra “The Teaching on the Aids to Enlightenment”

Āryabodhipakṣanirdeśanāmamahāyānasūtra

· Toh 178 ·

Degé Kangyur, vol. 60 (mdo sde, ma), folios 240.b–244.b
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