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Primary Source Texts

kun tu rgyu ba sen rings kyis zhus pa (Dīrghanakha­parivrājaka­paripṛcchā). Toh 342, Degé Kangyur vol. 74 (mdo sde, a), folios 298.b–300.a.

kun tu rgyu ba sen rings kyis zhus pa (Dīrghanakha­parivrājaka­paripṛcchā). bka’ ’gyur (dpe bsdur ma) [Comparative Edition of the Kangyur], krung go’i bod rig pa zhib ’jug ste gnas kyi bka’ bstan dpe sdur khang (The Tibetan Tripitaka Collation Bureau of the China Tibetology Research Center). 108 volumes. Beijing: krung go’i bod rig pa dpe skrun khang (China Tibetology Publishing House), 2006–9, vol. 74, pp. 996–1000.

kun tu rgyu ba sen rings kyis zhus pa (Dīrghanakha­parivrājaka­paripṛcchā). Stok 54, Stok Palace Kangyur vol. 57 (mdo sde, cha), folios 136.a–138.a.

sher phyin stong phrag brgya pa (Śata­sāhasrikā­prajñā­pāramitā). Toh 8, Degé Kangyur vol. 14–25 (’bum, ka–a), folios 1.b (ka)–395.a (a). English translation in Sparham 2024.

sher phyin stong phrag nyi shu lnga pa (Pañca­viṃśati­sāhasrikā­prajñā­pāramitā). Toh 9, Degé Kangyur vol. 26–28 (nyi khri, ka–ga), folios 1.b (ka)–381.a (ga). English translation in Padmakara Translation Group 2023.

sher phyin khri brgyad stong pa (Aṣṭā­daśa­sāhasrikā­prajñā­pāramitā). Toh 10, Degé Kangyur vol. 29–31 (khri brgyad, ka–ga), folios 1.b (ka)–206.a (ga). English translation in Sparham 2022.

shes phyin khri pa (Daśa­sāhasrikā­prajñā­pāramitā). Toh 11, Degé Kangyur vol. 31 (shes phyin, ga), folios 1.b–91.a; vol. 32 (shes phyin, nga), folios 92.b–397.a. English translation in Padmakara Translation Group 2018.

sher phyin brgyad stong pa (Aṣṭa­sāhasrikā­prajñā­pāramitā). Toh 12, Degé Kangyur, vol. 33 (brgyad stong, ka), folios 1.a–286.a.

don dam pa’i chos kyis rnam par rgyal ba. (Paramārtha­dharmavijaya). Toh 246, Degé Kangyur vol. 66 (mdo sde, za), folios 33.a–42.b. English translation in UCSB Buddhist Studies Translation Group 2021.

Kawa Paltsek (ska ba dpal brtsegs) gsung rab rin po che’i gtam rgyud dang shAkya’i rabs rgyud (*Pravacana­ratnākhyāna­śākya­vaṃśāvalī). Toh 4357, Degé Tengyur vol. 204 (sna tshogs, co), folios 238.b.1–377.a.7. Also in bka’ ’gyur (dpe bsdur ma) [Comparative Edition of the Kangyur], krung go’i bod rig pa zhib ’jug ste gnas kyi bka’ bstan dpe sdur khang (The Tibetan Tripitaka Collation Bureau of the China Tibetology Research Center). 120 volumes. Beijing: krung go’i bod rig pa dpe skrun khang (China Tibetology Publishing House), 1994–2008, vol. 115, pp. 802–22.

Denkarma (pho brang stod thang ldan dkar gyi chos ’gyur ro cog gi dkar chag). Toh 4364, Degé Tengyur vol. 206 (sna tshogs, jo), folios 294.b–310.a.

Phangthangma (dkar chag ’phang thang ma). Beijing: mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 2003.

Vinītā, Bhikṣuṇī, ed. and trans. A Unique Collection of Twenty Sūtras in a Sanskrit Manuscript from the Potala. Sanskrit Texts from the Tibetan Autonomous Region 7/1. Beijing: China Tibetology Publishing House; Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2010.

Yijing, trans. chang zhao fan zhi qing wen jing 長爪梵志請問經 (Chinese translation of The Sūtra of the Questions of Dīrghanakha the Wandering Mendicant), Taishō 584.

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Sparham, Gareth, trans. (2024). The Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines (Śata­sāhasrikā­prajñā­pāramitā, Toh 8). 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha.

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