ཤས་པས་ཐམས་ཅད་མཐར་ཕྱན་པར་གྲབ་པའ་མཆད་རྟན་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས notes.28

notes.28

28. This translation is tentative. It is unclear what the “five supports for offering” (mchod pa’i rten lnga) are. This may refer to a fivefold offering sequence for which Vajradhara assumes prior knowledge, or it may refer to the steps that follow immediately below. Both the narrative preamble to this text and the body of the main rite refer to a set of five caityas, thus the phrase mchod pa’i rten lnga could be read as “the five caityas.” However, the Tibetan translators were consistent in using mchod rten to render caitya, so the inclusion of the genitive particle in mchod pa’i rten suggests that they did not read the term caitya here.