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# འཕགས་པ་རྒྱ་ཆར་རལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes: Notes

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### Notes

### [notes.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.lalitavistara*bo~en-84000.notes.1)

1. See Miller (forthcoming).

### [notes.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.lalitavistara*bo~en-84000.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.lalitavistara*bo~en-84000.notes.3)

3. Hokazono 1994, 2019a, 2019b.

### [notes.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.lalitavistara*bo~en-84000.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.lalitavistara*bo~en-84000.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.lalitavistara*bo~en-84000.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.lalitavistara*bo~en-84000.notes.7)

7. The translation is based on the Sanskrit.

### [notes.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.lalitavistara*bo~en-84000.notes.8)

8. The translation of the verses in the following section is primarily based on the Sanskrit.

### [notes.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.lalitavistara*bo~en-84000.notes.9)

9. This is the first time the text shifts to the first person.

### [notes.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.lalitavistara*bo~en-84000.notes.10)

10. The translation is based on the Tibetan tsa sha (Skt. cāṣa); the Sanskrit has apsaras.

### [notes.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.lalitavistara*bo~en-84000.notes.11)

11. The following six verses are missing in the Sanskrit text.

### [notes.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.lalitavistara*bo~en-84000.notes.12)

12. The first three lines of this verse are missing in the Sanskrit text.

### [notes.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.lalitavistara*bo~en-84000.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.lalitavistara*bo~en-84000.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.lalitavistara*bo~en-84000.notes.15)

15. In the passsage that follows, the translation follows the structure of the Sanskrit rather than the Tibetan.

### [notes.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.lalitavistara*bo~en-84000.notes.16)

16. With this paragraph begins a list of the “ten powers (bala) of a thus-gone one.”

### [notes.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.lalitavistara*bo~en-84000.notes.17)

17. With this paragraph begins a list of the “four confidences (vaiśāradya) of a thus-gone one.”

### [notes.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.lalitavistara*bo~en-84000.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.lalitavistara*bo~en-84000.notes.19)

19. From the following paragraph onward, the translation follows the Tibetan structure again.

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