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འཕགས་པ་སྡང་པ་རྒྱན་གྱ་མཆག་ཅས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས notes.11

The Dhāraṇī of the Supreme Stem Ornament notes.11

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notes.11

11. dmar kyi mthun. Here we follow the Yongle and Kangxi Kangyurs which read dmar kyi mthun, thus taking the phrase to mean “violence” (lit. “that which accords with violence”), rather than the Degé, which reads dmar kyi thun (this might possibly be translated as “violent incanted substances” or “violent practices”). While we believe we can make most sense of the Kangxi and Yongle reading, we nonetheless remain unsure about the meaning of this phrase, and suspect that the passage may be corrupt.