འཕགས་པ་འཁར་གསལ་གྱ་མད notes.14

notes.14

14. The Degé and Comparative Edition read here (272.b.2): dran pa nye bar gzhag pa’i don gyi spyod pa. This sentence introduces a variation (second occurrence) on a general phrase that appeared earlier (271.b.3, first occurrence) and appears again later (273.a.7, third occurrence): rjes su dran pa’i rnam par gzhag pa’i don gyi spyod pa. The general phrase is attested in the Dunhuang manuscript once (third occurrence); in the Stok Palace edition it appears twice (first and third occurrences). The change that appears here in the Degé (second occurrence) is apparently meant to bring the relevant part of the phrase in line with the well-known Buddhist term dran pa nye bar bzhag pa (Sanskrit: smṛtyupasthāna). At this point (second occurrence), the Stok Palace edition reads dran par gzhag pa’i don gyi spyod pa, which differs from both the general phrase and the Degé. In the Taishō edition, the same Chinese phrase appears in all three places: jian nian yi zhi zhi 建念義之志. It may be rendered as: “It is an emblem signifying the meaning of the establishment of recollection.” The Tibetan translator has rendered nian and jian separately as rjes su dran pa and rnam par gzhag pa, recognizing that it is different from the standard Chinese term nianzhu 念住 used to translate smṛtyupasthāna.