འཕགས་པ་གང་གའ་མཆག་གས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.43

notes.43

43. The Dunhuang manuscipt says, “In this regard, that which should be spoken of as cutting off the continuous stream of saṃsāra is as follows: since that which is the ultimate endpoint and something (chos) of the state of the inconceivable cannot be destroyed or disintegrated, for this reason, I have declared it to be the teaching (chos) of cutting off the continuous stream of saṃsāra” (de la ’khor ba rgyun gcod pa zhes bya ba ni ’di lta ste | yang dag pa’i mtha’ dang | bsam gyis myi khyap pa’i dbyings kyi chos gang yin ba de ni dbyug cing gzhig du myed pas | de’i phyir ’khor ba’i rgyun gcod pa’i chos shes bstan to). In both the Dunhuang manuscript and the canonical Tibetan, the Buddha’s explanation here would seem to rely on the dual sense of the meaning of the word dharma (chos) as both a phenomenon and the teaching.