འཕགས་པ་སྤྱན་རས་གཟགས་དབང་ཕྱག་ག་མཚན་བརྒྱ་རྩ་བརྒྱད་པ notes.2.19

notes.2.19

19. thong ka seng ge ’phyong ba ’dra. Toh 900 here reads mthon ka seng ge’i ral pa ’dra, “you are blue like a lion’s mane.” S agrees with Toh 900. We have tentatively followed the reading transmitted in Toh 705. Nonetheless, the text in both versions remains ambiguous or problematic, and it is possible that both readings are corruptions. What is relatively certain is that this line alludes to the common description of the broadness of great beings’ chests. The same picture is evoked also in other texts such as, for example, The Perfection of Wisdom in Eighteen Thousand Lines (Toh 10), , and The Long Explanation of the Noble Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand, Twenty-Five Thousand, and Eighteen Thousand Lines (Toh 3808), .