**Notes**


has published the transcription of the surviving part of this text. The similar manuscript entitled the *Precious Scroll of Reverend Maudgalyayana Rescuing His Mother [and Helping Her] to Escape from Hell and Be Born in Heaven ¯* (*Mujianlian zunzhe jiu mu chuli diyu sheng tian baojuan* 目犍連尊者救母出離地獄生天寶卷) and dated 1440 has been preserved in Russia (originally in a private collection, later purchased by the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg); see Berezkin (2017, pp. 48–71).

