འཕགས་པ་སྒྱ་མ་ལྟ་བའ་ཏང་ང་འཛན་ཅས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes: Notes
The Illusory Absorption notes
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1. See, for example, Dharmachakra 2016, Introduction i.7.
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2. Particularly in texts of the Ārya, or ’phags lugs, commentarial tradition related to the Guhyasamāja.
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3. For a translation, see Roberts and Bower (2018).
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4. rkyen gyi rgyal ba, a term that from the context is very likely a synonym of pratyekabuddha (rang sangs rgyas). The term is found only in one other canonical text, the Sūryagarbhamahāvaipulyasūtra (Toh 257). The Sanskrit equivalent would be pratyayajina, which is rare or unknown, but pratyayabuddha is well attested. Norman (1997, p. 87) has argued that pratyayabuddha, or pacceyabuddha in Pali, may have been the original, more correct form of pratyekabuddha.
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5. While most other Kangyurs have chos sprin rgyal las, the Degé Kangyur has chos sprin rgya las, and the Stok Palace Kangyur chos sprin rgyas las. The latter two readings seem more likely.
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6. We are unsure of the meaning in the two last lines of this verse.
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7. We have not been able to translate this analogy with confidence. This represents no more than our best guess at this passage