ད་བཞན་གཤགས་པ་བགྲ་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes: Notes
Discussions of Thus-Gone Ones notes
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1. Palgyi Yang was one of the first Tibetan monks (the sad mi mi bdun, “seven men who were tested”) and worked on translations of only a few other texts in addition to this one. His other translations include the text immediately preceding this text in the Degé Kangyur, which has the quite similar title Buddhasaṅgīti (Toh 228, see Dharmachakra Translation Committee, Discussions of Buddhas , forthcoming), and the celebrated Bhadrakalpika (Toh 94, see Dharmachakra Translation Committee, The Good Eon, 2022). The Indian master Jñānagarbha mentioned here is one of several paṇḍitas of that name mentioned in Kangyur colophons, but was probably the only one active in the early translation period.
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2. The Denkarma catalog is dated to c. 812 ce. In this catalog, Discussions of Thus-Gone Ones is included among the Miscellaneous Sūtras (mdo sde sna tshogs) that are less than ten sections (bam po) long. See Herrmann-Pfandt 2008, p. 69, no. 124.
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3. Chökyi Drakpa 1995, p. 133.
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4. Likewise, within modern scholarship, it appears that this sūtra has not been studied in detail. We have only come across a few brief references to this text in Lugli 2010.
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5. This reading is based on Y, J, K, and C, where bdag is omitted.
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6. Based on the absence of a basis known as “baseless” renders the Tibetan gnas med pa zhes bya ba’i gnas med pa la gnas.
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7. The translation of this reply by Mañjuśrī is tentative.
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8. Translated based on S: kyis. D: kyi.
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9. Reading with the omission of na (in de na) as in Y, J, K, N, C, and H.
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10. Reading dengs from H and S in place of deng.
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11. Reading bzang from H in place of bzangs.
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12. Translated based on S: bden pa. D: dben pa.
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13. Reading ’ dis from Y, J, K, N, and C in place of di.
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14. Reading shog from K, C, and S in place of sheg.
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15. The translation of this paragraph up to this point is tentative.
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16. White and black actions here refer to virtuous and nonvirtuous deeds respectively.
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17. Translated based on S: zad pa med pa. D: zag pa med pa.
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18. Translation tentative. Tibetan: ba sbu’i khung bu ’khor lnga pa.
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19. Translation tentative. Tibetan: de nyid ’ong ba la’ang sangs rgyas bcom ldan ’das rnams chos nye bar sgrub par mdzad do.
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20. Reading ’ phyas from S in place of phyas.
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21. Here the text reads “the Sahā world system.” We have assumed that “Sahā” is an error and omitted it from the translation.
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22. Omitting ma based on Y, J, K, N, C, and H.
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23. Reading btsal ba from Y, J, K, N, C, H, and S in place of ’tshal ba.
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24. Reading rig par from Y, J, K, N, and H in place of blta bar.
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25. Here and below, “truly see” refers to the fact that the objects are not truly existent.
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26. Reading rgyal ba from Y, K, and S in place of rgyal ba’i.
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27. Reading lhang nger from H and S in place of lha nger.
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28. Reading thob from Y, J, K, N, C, H, and S in place of thos.
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29. Translation tentative. Tibetan: phyi dus ngan ’gro chen po ste