Acknowledgments
The sūtra was translated from Tibetan and Sanskrit by Peter Alan Roberts. Tulku Yeshi of the Sakya Monastery, Seattle, was the consulting lama who reviewed the translation. The project manager and editor was Emily Bower. The proofreader was Ben Gleason. The introduction was compiled by the 84000 Editorial Team, and incorporates material by Peter Alan Roberts.
The translation was completed under the patronage and supervision of 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha.
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འཕགས་པ་ཚེ་དང་ཡེ་ཤེས་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།
’phags pa tshe dang ye shes dpag tu med pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo
The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra of Aparimitāyurjñāna
Āryāparimitāyurjñānanāmamahāyānasūtra
· Toh 849 ·
Degé Kangyur, vol. 100 (gzungs ’dus, e), folios 57.a–62.a
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Patsap Nyima Drak
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