This text is an excerpt fromAscertaining the Discipline: the Sūtra of Upāli's Questions (Toh 68
Vinayaviniścayopāliparipṛcchāsūtra, 'dul ba rnam par gtan la dbab pa nye bar 'khor gyis zhus pa'i mdo).
The excerpt is cited in Śāntideva’s Compendium of Training (Toh 3940, Śikṣāsamuccaya, bslab pa kun
btus) as a method of purifying transgressions of vows and downfalls of the bodhisattva vow. Unlike
Ascertaining the Discipline, Śāntideva’s Compendium of Training has been preserved in Sanskrit, eg. as
inputted by Mirek Rozehnal and published on GRETIL. The names of the Thirty-Five Buddhas as given
in the footnotes have been checked against the GRETIL Sanskrit edition.
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