འཕགས་པ་རྒྱ་ཆར་རལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes: Notes
The Play in Full notes
- Language
- English
Notes
notes.1
1. See Miller (forthcoming).
notes.2
2. We are grateful to Jonathan Silk (Silk 2022, p. 273, n. 15) for pointing out a number of errors and omissions in an earlier version of this paragraph.
notes.3
3. Hokazono 1994, 2019a, 2019b.
notes.4
4. At the time of translation the edition of Hokazono (Hokazono 1994, 2019a, 2019b) mentioned above was unavailable to us. Since it appears to be a considerable improvement on Lefman’s, we expect to benefit from a close reading of it in a planned future update of this translation.
notes.5
5. The Sanskrit here has Kauṇḍinya, who (with his title Ajñāta-) has already been mentioned. However, Negi cites this and one another instance to suggest the possibility that the Tibetan gsus po che is sometimes used to refer to Kauṇḍinya.
notes.6
6. The four rivers is a technical term for the streams (ogha) that are identical to the four “outflows” (āśrava), namely, sensual desires, desire for cyclic existence, wrong views, and ignorance.
notes.7
7. The translation is based on the Sanskrit.
notes.8
8. The translation of the verses in the following section is primarily based on the Sanskrit.
notes.9
9. This is the first time the text shifts to the first person.
notes.10
10. The translation is based on the Tibetan tsa sha (Skt. cāṣa); the Sanskrit has apsaras.
notes.11
11. The following six verses are missing in the Sanskrit text.
notes.12
12. The first three lines of this verse are missing in the Sanskrit text.
notes.13
13. According to Lefmann’s edition of the Sanskrit and the Tibetan chos ’dod. Vaidya’s Sanskrit has Dharmakāya as the second name here.
notes.14
14. This is the first of the “thirty-two marks of a great being,” the rest of which are listed in the paragraphs that follow.
notes.15
15. In the passsage that follows, the translation follows the structure of the Sanskrit rather than the Tibetan.
notes.16
16. With this paragraph begins a list of the “ten powers (bala) of a thus-gone one.”
notes.17
17. With this paragraph begins a list of the “four confidences (vaiśāradya) of a thus-gone one.”
notes.18
18. The qualities listed from this paragraph until 26.205 correspond, with some variations, to enumerations in other texts of the “eighteen unique qualities of a buddha” (āvenikabuddhadharma).
notes.19
19. From the following paragraph onward, the translation follows the Tibetan structure again.