འཕགས་པ་ཚངས་པས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.6

notes.6

6. Here the Tibetan for the first concentration is slightly different from the classic formulation as found in the Mahāvyutpatti and elsewhere. The present text reads rtog pa dang bcas pa/ dpyod pa dang bcas pa’i ting nge ’dzin las skyes pa “[joy] arising from meditative absorption with thought and scrutiny,” whereas the Mahāvyutpatti reads rtog pa dang bcas pa dpyad pa dang bcas pa dben pa las skyes pa “arising from thought and scrutiny while in seclusion.” Note that here “in seclusion” does not refer to seclusion in the sense of being in a secluded place while practicing, but rather to being mentally secluded, as it were, from the objects of the senses. In the Mahāvyutpatti it is only the second concentration, not the first, that mentions “absorption.” Since the Mahāvyutpatti is an authoritative source, we have emended the translation here to conform with the first concentration as found there, as does Skilling (2021) in his translation. For the equivalent Sanskrit consult the Mahāvyutpatti with sGra sbyor bam po gñis pa online at Bibliotecha Polyglotta (see Bibliography).