ལྷའ་མད་ཉང་ང notes.15

notes.15

15. D khrims bzung yang dag sdom la dga’. The Sanskrit fragment (Mat.) here reads suśīlāḥ saṃyame ratāḥ. So khrims bzung appears to be a corruption of khrims bzang, “good law,” “good custom,” or “good ethics,” as a rendering of suśīlāḥ. F (Phukdrak Kangyur, folio 119.b) here reads khrims bsrung (“will protect the law”). In translating khrims here as “law,” rather than as “discipline” or “ethics,” (as would be merited by the Sanskrit śīla), we have opted to retain the Tibetan referentiality of the term khrims, since by Tibetan tradition the ten virtues were enshrined as the foundation of law (khrims), both secular and monastic (rgyal khrims and chos khrims), from the Tibetan imperial period onward.