འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཀྱ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་གྱ་མད་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ notes.7

notes.7

7. This follows the Stok Palace Kangyur reading bla ma dang mkhan po’i gdams ngag yongs su btsal ba. The Degé and other Kangyurs of the Tshalpa line read differently as “bestow the oral instructions of teachers and preceptors” (bla ma dang mkhan po’i gdams ngag yongs su stsal ba). The difference hinges on the spelling of two homophonous verbs in Tibetan. While btsal ba (as found in the Stok version) means “seek out” or “look for,” stsal ba (as found in the Degé) means “give” or “bestow.” Peter Skilling likewise favors “seek out.” In a note, he offers a reconstruction of the Sanskrit that this could potentially translate, *guru-upādhyāya-upadeśa-paryeṣti / paryeṣana. See Skilling 2021, p. 538, n. 436. It is also notable that this is the only text in the Kangyur to use the phrase bla ma dang mkhan po.