སངས་རྒྱས་ཕལ་པ་ཆ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཤན་ཏ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.4.22

notes.4.22

22. The Stok Palace (vol. 34, folio 310.a), Lhasa (vol. 46, folio 341.b), Choné (vol. 94, folio 284.a), and Narthang (vol. 40, folio 340.a) editions read shin tu rgyas pa chen po’i mdo sangs rgyas phal po che zhes bya ba/ byang chub sems dpa’i sde snod kyi nang nas sdong pos brgyan pa zhes bya ba chos kyi rnam grangs chen po las. This could be translated, “the great Dharma discourse called the Gaṇḍa­vyūha from within the Bodhisattva­piṭaka called the vast Buddhāvataṃsaka Sūtra,” which suggests that the Buddhāvataṃsaka is a type of text known as a Bodhisattva­piṭaka. Urga (vol. 38, folio 362.a) has sangs rgyas phal po che zhes bya ba/ shin tu rgyas pa chen po’i mdo las/ byang chub sems dpa’i sde snod cing / sdong pos rgyan pa zhes bya ba, which could be translated as “the Bodhisattva­piṭaka and Gaṇḍa­vyūha from the Mahāvaipulya sūtra called the Buddhāvatamska,” although cing grammatically should follow a verb, not a noun, and it could well be an error for kyi nang when that is pronounced “chi nang.” This, like the aforementioned colophon from Dunhuang, suggests that both Bodhisattva­piṭaka and Gaṇḍa­vyūha are titles for one and the same work. By contrast, the Degé (vol. 38, folio 362.a) and Kangxi (vol. 60, folio 263.a) read shin tu rgyas pa chen po’i mdo/ sangs rgyas phal po che zhes bya ba las/ byang chub sems dpa’i sde snod kyi nang / sdong pos brgyan pa zhes bya ba chos kyi rnam grangs chen po las. This could be rendered, “From the Mahāvaipulya sūtra called the Buddhāvataṃsaka, from within the Bodhisattva­piṭaka, the great Dharma discourse called the Gaṇḍa­vyūha,” meaning that the Gaṇḍa­vyūha is from the Bodhisattva­piṭaka, a collection of bodhisattva teachings, and has been included in the Buddhāvataṃsaka. In other words, the Gaṇḍa­vyūha is contained in the Bodhisattva­piṭaka that is contained in the Buddhāvataṃsaka—a statement that would not seem to make much sense.