བསད་ནམས་ཀྱ་སྟབས་ཀྱ་རྟགས་པ་བརྗད་པ notes.17
The Exemplary Tale of Puṇyabala notes.17
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17. There is a spelling discrepancy between the Degé edition and the other versions. In contrast to Degé’s dpen pa (“vital,” “useful,” “necessary,” “essential”), the other editions have dben pa (“devoid of”). This translation follows the former. Tib. dpen pa is an old term, which, in this context, means the same as its synonyms mkho ba, yid du ’ong ba, and phang. In its numerous occurrences in this text, the term occurs in the unusual compound nyams su dpen pa (not found elsewhere in the Kangyur or Tengyur), which seems to refer to things one wishes or values as important.