འཕགས་པ་ཆས་བཞ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.18
The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra on the Four Factors notes.18
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18. Dwelling in the wilderness is also one of the twelve ascetic practices (dhūtaguṇa). Note that related to (and sometimes conflated with) the Sanskrit araṇya in the compound araṇyavāsa—attested for dgon pa la gnas pa not in this text but in the Sanskrit of the Rāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchā (Toh 62)—is another term, araṇa, in the compound araṇavihāra, of which the Tibetan rendering is nyon mongs pa med par gnas pa (Mvy 6366), with the more “inner” meaning of “dwelling free of afflicted mental states.” See Edgerton s.v. araṇya and araṇya.