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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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