Acknowledgments
This translation was completed by the Blazing Wisdom Translation Group, Tulku Sherdor and Virginia Blum, under the guidance of Khenpo Sonam Tobgyal, with editorial assistance from Hans Schmidt, research of Chinese canonical indices by Geok Hui Loo, and final editing and review by the 84000 editorial team.
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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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