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སངས་རྒྱས་ཕལ་པ་ཆ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཤན་ཏ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.4.179

The Ten Bhūmis; The Chapter on the Scale of Life; The Dwellings of Bodhisattvas; The Stem Array; The Stem Array notes.4.179

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notes.4.179

179. According to the Sanskrit śruti and the Narthang and Lhasa thos. Other Kangyurs, including Stok Palace and Degé, have mthong (“see”). The Chinese has expanded this verse into two contrasting scenarios: “remain in the lower realms but always able to hear the names of the buddhas” versus “born in higher realms but temporarily unable to hear the names of the buddhas.”