འཕགས་མ་གཟའ་རྣམས་ཀྱ་ཡམ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས notes.14
The Noble Dhāraṇī “The Mother of the Grahas” notes.14
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14. This most likely refers to Tri Songdetsen (the king), Ba Selnang (the minister), and Śāntarakṣita (the bodhisattva). It is also possible that the spelling blon is a corruption of the shortened dbu med character slon, a scribal contraction for slob dpon. If this is the case, then the middle member of this group of three is an ācārya (slob dpon), not a minister (blon po), and may refer to Padmasambhava. Many thanks to Dylan Esler for his input on this issue.