ལྷ་མ་སྒྲལ་མའ་མཚན་བརྒྱ་རྩ་བརྒྱད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ notes.26

notes.26

26. This reading is also highly conjectural. We read ser mo tsan pa as ser mo btsun pa (“yellow-[clad] venerable ones”), for lack of a better alternative, despite the high level of agreement between the different witnesses. The Tibetan syllable tsan exists as part of the word tsan dan (“sandalwood”), so if tsan were taken to be short for tsan dan, a literal reading would be something like “excellent support for those to do with yellow sandalwood.”