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There are two Chinese translations of the sūtra: the Guṇabhadra version translated in A.D. 436 called the Shengman shizihou yicheng dafangbian fangguang jing, T. 353, vol. 12 <ŚSN(Ch.1)>); and the Bodhiruci version of A.D. 710 called the Shengman furen hui (T. 310(48), vol. 11 <ŚSN(Ch.2)>), which is the 48th sūtra of the Ratnakūṭa collection (Da bao ji jing). There is also a ninth century Tibetan translation called the 'Phags pa Iha mo dpal 'phren gi sen ge'i sgra śes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo <ŚSN(Tib.)>. The English translation by Alex and Hideko Wayman is based on the Chinese translation.[1] Readers are referred to this work for more detailed information. There is also a great deal of research that has been done on this sūtra by Japanese scholars, which we will not touch upon here.
The original version of this sūtra has been lost, and there are only a few fragmentary quotations in Sanskrit in the Ratnagotravibhāga and the Śikṣāsamuccaya. In The Schøyen Collection, however, I was able to discover three virtually complete folios that cover the final portion of the sutra as well as another two fragments related to other sections. As the sūtra ends on the recto side of folio no. 392,[2] the verso side of the same folio begins another sūtra which is the subject of the next report in this volume. In the following, I will introduce the above mentioned three folios and two fragments related to the ŚSN. (Matsuda, preliminary remarks, 65)
