སངས་རྒྱས་ཕལ་པ་ཆ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཤན་ཏ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.1.89
The Ten Bhūmis; The Chapter on the Scale of Life; The Dwellings of Bodhisattvas; The Stem Array; The Stem Array notes.1.89
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notes.1.89
89. The Vasubandhu translation here appears to have been translated from gaṇa (tshogs, “gathering,” “multitude”), which is defined as “the multitude of bodhisattvas that are their pupils,” as the aspect of their perfect followers or retinue among the list of the perfections of the buddhas as implied by these lines of verse. Cleary has “virtues,” and therefore it appears that at the time of the later Chinese translation the Sanskrit had guṇa (yon tan, “good qualities”) instead of gaṇa. It is also guṇa in the present Sanskrit, the Tibetan sūtra, and both commentaries. This may have been an early corruption that became widespread or, alternatively, Vasubandhu’s was composed on the basis of a corruption of guṇa to gaṇa in a manuscript.