གཎ་ཌའ་མད notes.4

notes.4

4. This classification is given in the Poṣadhavastu, which comprises the second chapter of the Tibetan version of the Vinayavastu included in the Kangyur and corresponds to the Khandhaka section of the Theravāda Vinaya in Pāli. For a translation of this passage as it occurs in the Sanskrit Gilgit manuscript purported to belong to the Mūlasarvāstivāda tradition, see Hu-von Hinüber (1991), p. 746. The passage appears to distinguish five different kinds of gaṇḍī but more likely specifies five different ways in which the gaṇḍī is used in monastic life. Indeed, the Poṣadhavastu elsewhere specifies the different ways of striking the gaṇḍī beam in each of these five contexts. For details on these contexts as well as traditional classifications of its use in tantric practice, see Sobkovyak (2015), 690–93.