Acknowledgments
Translation by the Buddhavacana Translation Group, Vienna, under the supervision of Khenpo Konchok Tamphel. Translated into English by Rolf Scheuermann and Casey Kemp.
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འཕགས་པ་སྐུ་གསུམ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།
’phags pa sku gsum zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo
The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra “The Three Bodies”
Āryatrikāyanāmamahāyānasūtra
· Toh 283 ·
Degé Kangyur, vol. 68 (mdo sde, ya), folios 56.a–57.a
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