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སངས་རྒྱས་ཕལ་པ་ཆ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཤན་ཏ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.5.153

The Ten Bhūmis; The Chapter on the Scale of Life; The Dwellings of Bodhisattvas; The Stem Array; The Stem Array notes.5.153

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notes.5.153

153. There is a play on words in the Sanskrit, as varṇa has many meanings, including “color” as well as “class,” “caste,” “nature,” “character,” and “quality.” This play on words is lost in English and in the Tibetan. The Chinese interprets the term as 願 (yuan, “aspirations”).