འཕགས་པ་བསམ་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཡངས་ས་རྫགས་པར་བྱད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་ཡངས་ས་བསྔ་བ notes.8

notes.8

8. A very similar set of four terms (bsam pa, bag la nyal, khams, rang bzhin) is common in the Vinaya literature and related texts such as The Hundred Deeds to describe the knowledge used by an arhat to assess the best approach in teaching an individual; indeed, that same set of four appears in the following text with which this one seems to form a pair (see The Dedication “Protecting All Beings”, Toh 286, 1.5). Here, however, in the place of the first of the four terms, bsam pa, different Kangyurs instead have three variants: snon pa, “addition, increase” (Degé); ston pa, “teach, show, demonstrate,” or possibly “teacher” (Narthang, Lhasa, Stok Palace, Shey, Gangteng); and smon pa, “aspiration, intention, wish” (Choné). The latter, though a minority variant, seems to correspond best to the other instances of this set of terms.