བསླབ་པ་ལྔའ་ཕན་ཡན་གྱ་མད notes.47
The Benefits of the Five Precepts notes.47
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notes.47
47. Translation tentative: de ni shal ma li’i shing gi nags la shon no. Other texts describe this hellish forest in which the leaves are sword-like and face downward as one tries to climb up, and upward when one tries to climb down. See the description in The Application of Mindfulness of the Sacred Dharma (Toh 287), . See also a reference to the Asipattavana, “the forest where the leaves are swords,” one of the secondary hells, in the Pañcagatidīpanī (Hazlewood 1987, p. 141, verse 32).