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འཕགས་པ་ཆས་དང་དན་རྣམ་པར་འབྱད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.6

Distinguishing Phenomena and What Is Meaningful notes.6

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notes.6

6. In translating don as “what is meaningful,” we have taken as one of the only available cues the single occurrence of the word in the text—in the third line of . Although the translation of this line renders chos as “the Dharma” rather than as “phenomena,” the play between the different meanings of this word in this and the following stanza in the source text, and the possible ambiguities that result, are probably intentional.