Acknowledgments
Translated from the Tibetan, with reference to the Sanskrit, by Peter Alan Roberts. The Tibetan reviewer was Tulku Yeshi. Emily Bower was the project manager and editor.
The translation was completed under the patronage and supervision of 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha.
The generous sponsorship of Shakya Dewa and family, which helped make the work on this translation possible, is most gratefully acknowledged.
84000’s translation of Toh 44-31 is the Ten Bhūmis chapter of the Avataṃsaka, with an introduction and notes.
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ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཕལ་པོ་ཆེ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ལས་ས་བཅུ་པའི་ལེའུ།
shin tu rgyas pa chen po’i mdo sangs rgyas phal po che zhes bya ba las sa bcu pa’i le’u
The Ten Bhūmis Chapter from the Mahāvaipulya Sūtra “A Multitude of Buddhas”
Buddhāvataṃsakanāmamahāvaipulyasūtrāt daśabhūmikaḥ paṭalaḥ
· Toh 44-31 ·
Degé Kangyur, vol. 36 (phal chen, kha), folios 166.a–283.a
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