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Translated, edited, and finalized by the Indian preceptors Jinamitra and Surendrabodhi along with the translator and editor Bandé Yeshé Dé, among others.
Inspiring Determination
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84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha
First published 2021
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འཕགས་པ་ལྷག་པའི་བསམ་པ་བསྐུལ་བ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།
’phags pa lhag pa’i bsam pa bskul ba zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo
The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra “Inspiring Determination”
Āryādhyāśayasaṃcodananāmamahāyānasūtra
· Toh 69 ·
Degé Kangyur, vol. 43 (dkon brtsegs, ca), folios 131.b–153.b
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Bandé Yeshé Dé · Jinamitra · Surendrabodhi
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Guru Viking1
- Ep276: Canadian Tulku Translator - Tulku Sherab Dorje
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- Siddhārtha Gautama · the Buddha
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- Emptiness & not-self
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Inspiring Determination