འཕགས་པ་ཚ་དང་ཡ་ཤས་དཔག་ཏ་མད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.59

notes.59

59. The prefix bde ba can, which is here rendered as “blissful” but could also be interpreted as the realm name Sukhāvatī, is present in this version of the text but not in the equivalent sentence of Toh 674 (see Toh 674, 1.8), nor in the Dunhuang manuscripts. It somewhat confusingly identifies this realm at the zenith with the western realm of the “other” Amitāyus who is Amitābha, perhaps confirming that the conflation of these two buddhas (see ) occurred at an early date in Tibet.