སངས་རྒྱས་ཕལ་པ་ཆ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཤན་ཏ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.5.87
The Ten Bhūmis; The Chapter on the Scale of Life; The Dwellings of Bodhisattvas; The Stem Array; The Stem Array notes.5.87
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notes.5.87
87. According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan translates paṭala, here meaning “a mass or assemblage,” as na bun (“mist”). The Sanskrit śarīra here has the meaning of “world” or “universe” but was translated into Tibetan by its more general meaning of “body,” creating a meaningless sentence. The Chinese reads 一切大地 (yi qie da di), literally “all great lands,” which can mean the “world” or “universe,” either singular or plural. It describes the following clouds of incense as 一切如眾生形 (yī qiè rú zhòng shēng xíng, “in forms of all sentient beings”). Cleary has “form of all beings” while Osto has “body of the entire world.”