Notes

n.1According to the BHS vipañcita. The Tibetan translates as rnam par spros pa.

n.2See Dharmachakra Translation Committee, trans., The Teaching on the Effulgence of Light , Toh 55 (84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha, 2022).

n.3Toh 129, see bibliography.

n.4Brian Houghton Hodgson (1801–1894) was a linguist, ethnologist, naturalist, and diplomat who lived in Nepal from 1824 to 1844, becoming British Resident; among his many other activities, he studied and collected Sanskrit Buddhist texts. Haraprasad Shastri (1853–1931) was an Indian Sanskrit scholar and historian who visited Nepal several times, also collecting and publishing manuscripts. Both scholars were associated with the Asiatic Society in Kolkata. The Sanskrit edition of the sūtra published by Dutt (as one of a series centered on the Gilgit manuscripts; see bibliography) is not only based on the Gilgit manuscript, but also represents the Hodgson and Shastri manuscripts, which Dutt refers to, respectively, as manuscripts A and B.

n.5Vibhuticandra; dpal bde mchog gi dkyil ’khor kyi cho ga; Śrī-samvara-maṇḍala-vidhi. Toh 1511, Degé Tengyur, Vol. 22, (rgyud, zha), 322b. 308b–334a.

n.6The Yogacāra tradition of Asaṅga and his followers has philosophical viewpoints quite distinct from those of the Mādhyamika tradition, of which Candrakīrti was perhaps the most uncompromising proponent.

n.7The Tibetan of the quote is: nga ’das lo ni nyis stong na / gdong dmar yul du bstan pa ’byung / spyan ras gzigs kyi gdul byar ’gyur / de yi bstan pa’i snyigs ma la / byang chub sems dpa’ seng ge’i sgra / karma pa zhes ba ba ’byung / ting ’dzin dbang thob ’gro ba ’dul / mthong thos dran regs bde la bkod (Rinchen Palzang, p. 650).

n.8This line of homage, as is customary for Kangyur texts, was added by the Tibetan translators, and therefore does not appear in the Sanskrit or Chinese. The Gilgit Sanskrit manuscript has 12 initial verses, Hodgson 14 verses, and Shastri 43 verses, none of which are in the Tibetan.

n.9This number depends on whether niyuta is taken to mean “one million,” as in Classical Sanskrit, or “a hundred thousand million,” as is found in BHS. The Tibetan has chosen the latter meaning, translating it as khrag khrig. Therefore the resulting number in Tibetan is “ten million [times] a hundred thousand million times eighty,” i.e., eighty million million million (eighty quintillion in the American or short scale system) (bye ba khrag khrig phrag brgyad bcu, apparently translating koṭiniyutena aśityā). The translation of the commentary by Mañjuśrīkīrti, however, has khrag khrig phrag brgyad bcu: “a hundred thousand million times eighty,” which would be eight million million, i.e., eight trillion. The Vaidya Sanskrit edition has niyuta­śata­sahasrena aśītyā which would be literally “a hundred thousand million [times] a hundred [times] a thousand times eighty,” which comes to eight hundred thousand million million, i.e., eight hundred thousand trillion. However if niyuta is taken as only one million, this would be eight million million, i.e., eight trillion, which would agree with the resulting number in Mañjuśrīkīrti’s commentary. The Dutt edition of the Gilgit manuscript has aśityā ca bodhisattva-niyutaiḥ and accordingly the translation of Gómez et al. is “eighty million,” where niyuta has presumably been given the value of one million. The Chinese simply transliterates as na-yo-ta. The Chinese tradition gives numerous, widely differing explanations of what this number means.

n.10In the Chinese the description of the bodhisattvas and the list of names do not appear. The Chinese continues at this point with Ajita.

n.11According to the BHS abhi­jñābhijñātair. The Tibetan, translating both abhijña and abhijñāta as mngon par shes pa, has mngon par shes pas mngon par shes pa. However, the translation of the commentary has a preferable translation of the second abhijñāta: rab tu grags pa.

n.12According to the BHS gatiṃgata. The Tibetan translates as rtogs par khong du chud pa.

n.13According to the commentary these are not only the dhāraṇī in recited form, but comprise the four kinds of retention ( dhāraṇī ): the recited dhāraṇī sentences and phrases themselves, the retention of the memory of the words of all teachings given, the retention of the memory of the meaning of these teachings, and the retention of the realization gained through meditation on that meaning.

n.14According to the Tibetan, though the Sanskrit compound could also be interpreted to mean “who had praised, extolled, and lauded all the buddhas.”

n.15According to the Tibetan and the commentary. The Sanskrit could also be interpreted, as in Gómez et al., as “knowing all the terrors [that come from] the māras.”

n.16According to the commentary, this means “adorned by the ten good actions: three of body, four of speech, and three of mind,” or, among the primary and secondary signs of a great being: “the voice of Brahmā, and the mind’s realization of the nature of beings so that they may be guided.”

n.17According to most Kangyurs, the commentary, and the Sanskrit. The Degé has kyi instead of kyis.

n.18According to the commentary, this means the bodhisattvas are on the tenth bhūmi, as taught in the Sūtra of the Ten Bhūmis. The ten-bhūmi system does not appear in the Gilgit version or the Chinese but does in the later Sanskrit versions and the Tibetan.

n.19According to the Sanskrit. Absent from the Tibetan.

n.20According to the Tibetan lhun po’i rtse mo ’dzin and Matsunami. Vaidya: Meruśikhariṁdhara. Dutt: Meruśikharindhara.

n.21According to the Tibetan lhun po’i rgyal po and Matsunami. Dutt: Merugāja. Does not appear in Hodgson.

n.22According to the Tibetan and Matsunami. Dutt: Meruśikhare saṁghaṭṭanarājena. Hodgson: Meruśikhare saṃghaḍanagajena. Shastri: Meruśikhare saṃghaṭanagajena.

n.23According to the Sanskrit. Absent in the Tibetan.

n.24According to the Sanskrit. Absent in the Tibetan.

n.25According to the Tibetan (nyi ma me’i ’od ’phro can) and the Hodgson. The Tibetan takes daśaśataraśmi, “a hundred thousand rays,” as an epithet of the sun and translates it simply as nyi ma (“sun”). Gilgit and Shastri: Daśaśataraśmikṛtārci with huta (“fire,” equivalent to the Tibetan me) replaced by kṛta (“made,” “created”).

n.26According to the Tibetan and Hodgson. Vaidya: Satatam­abhayaṁdadāna. Dutt has both versions.

n.27Another name for Maitreya, the bodhisattva who will be the fifth buddha of the Good Eon.

n.28According to the Sanskrit anupamacitta. The Tibetan has dpe med sems dpa’, whereas one would expect dpe med sems pa. The Sūtra of the Samādhi of the Seal of the Wisdom of the Tathāgatas (see bibliography) refers to this group as sems dpa’ dpe med pa, naming two of them: Pramodyarāja (mchog tu dga’ ba’i rgyal po) and Mañjuśrī (Degé Kangyur, vol. 55, F.248.a). The Sūtra of Possessing the Roots of Goodness (see bibliography) refers to byang chub sems dpa’ dpe med pa sems pa (“bodhisattvas with incomparable minds”), with Bhadrapāla being the one that is named (Degé Kangyur, vol. 48, F.48.a). Bhadrapāla is also listed as one of a group of five hundred bodhisattvas in that sūtra (F.22.b).

n.29This is referencing a group of beings that is listed in the White Lotus of the Good Dharma Sūtra (Degé Kangyur, vol. 67, 2.b). In that sūtra Bhadrapāla is also listed as one of a group of fifty bodhisattvas (F.142.b).

n.30A bodhisattva who appears prominently in certain sūtras, such as The Samādhi of the Presence of the Buddhas, and perhaps also the merchant of that name who is the principal interlocutor in the Sūtra of the Questions of Bhadrapāla the Merchant (see bibliography).

n.31This refers to the standard list of god realms beginning with the lowest, that of the Four Mahārājas.

n.32According to the Sanskrit udārodārair, which repeats udāra. The Tibetan translates as “vast and illustrious.”

n.33According to the Sanskrit, which uses repetition to state that each one of them has that quality, maheśākhya­maheśākhyair. The Tibetan translates as “very powerful and renowned to be very powerful.”

n.34Tibetan: bkur stir bya ba. Sanskrit: satkṛta.

n.35Tibetan: bla mar bya ba. Sanskrit: gurukṛta.

n.36Tibetan: ri mor bya ba. Sanskrit: mānita.

n.37Tibetan: mchod par bya ba. Sanskrit: pūjita.

n.38Tibetan: rjed par bya ba. Sanskrit: arcita.

n.39Tibetan: gsol ba. Sanskrit: apacāyita.

n.40According to the Sanskrit repetition of lokasya lokasya.

n.41Tibetan: phyag bya ba. Sanskrit: vandanīya.

n.42This epithet “youth” or “young man” has been translated by others as part of his name, resulting in “Candraprabhakumāra.” However, in the Sanskrit it is not compounded as it would be in a name, but is clearly in adjectival apposition. Kumāra can also have the meaning of “prince” and is so translated in the translation of the Gilgit manuscript. However, there is no indication that he is a prince, and therefore it more likely has its usual meaning of “a youth.”

n.43According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit at this point has in addition, “I am a perfectly enlightened buddha,” which does not appear in the Chinese or the Tibetan.

n.44According to the Tibetan, Chinese, and later Sanskrit manuscripts. The Gilgit has an additional part in the sentence: “there is nothing among all phenomena in the endless, infinite worlds….”

n.45According to the Tibetan and Chinese. The Sanskrit here has a number of adjectives describing his state of joy.

n.46According to the Tibetan gzhal med. The BHS has atuliyu (“unequaled”).

n.47According to the Sanskrit śāṭhyaṁ mama na vidyate.

n.48According to the Sanskrit sākṣī and the Tibetan dpang in the Lithang and the Lhasa Kangyurs; other Kangyurs have dbang (“power”).

n.49According to the Tibetan gces spras bgyid. The BHS has bahuṃkāra (“beneficial”).

n.50According to the Tibetan zhe sdang and Matsunami. The Dutt and Vaidya have doṣa, which is the BHS equivalent of the Classical Sanskrit dveṣa (“anger”), while the Classical Sanskrit doṣa means “fault.”

n.51Only this half-verse appears in the Hodgson and the Tibetan. In the Chinese, no part of this verse is present. The Shastri manuscript has a second half to this verse: “Will be without arrogance, desire, anger, and ignorance, / And will practice conduct in which all faults have ceased / So that his body becomes like space, / And all phenomena are destroyed.” The Matsunami version of this last line has prakṛti-prabhāsa instead of pramṛtiprahāra: “And all phenomena will have a radiant nature.”

n.52According to the Sanskrit and Chinese. The Tibetan has: “How is there increase through wisdoms?”

n.53Different words are translated as quality and qualities here: the one quality is the Sanskrit dharma (Tibetan chos), which has a wide range of other meanings, while for qualities the word is the more specific guṇa (Tibetan yon tan).

n.54According to the Tibetan and the commentary, which must have translated from caraṇapāṇatalāḥ (“feet and hands”) instead of caraṇavaratalāḥ (“soles of the perfect feet”) as in the Sanskrit. The Chinese has only “soles.”

n.55The singular is according to the Sanskrit. In the commentary it is in the plural.

n.56From this point on in the Chinese translation, the qualities are grouped into 21 sets with 10 qualities in each set.

n.57The explanation of these first three qualities (counting the three kinds of restraint as one) will form chapter 39, and all of the others are explained in chapter 40.

n.58According to the commentary and the definitions in chapter 40. The commentary states that this is engagement in actions in order to benefit beings.

n.59According to the Tibetan gsal ba, the commentary’s bstan pa, and the Chinese 顯示諸因 (xian shi zhu yin). The Sanskrit dīpanā could mean “burning up.”

n.60According to the commentary and chapter 40, where the Sanskrit is sattvānupraveśa and the Tibetan translates accordingly. Here the Sanskrit is satyānupraveśa (“penetrating the truth”) in all available editions, and is translated accordingly in the Tibetan, although it does not match the definition given in the commentary or in chapter 40.

n.61According to the commentary, dharma here means “knowing the nature of phenomena” rather than “the Dharma teachings.”

n.62The Tibetan drang ba, literally “straight,” can also mean “honest.” The Sanskrit ārjavatā could also mean straightforwardness and honesty, as well as sincerity. In chapter 40 [F.162.a] it is defined as “uncontrived.” The commentary defines it as both “sincerity” and “directness,” as in a direct route to buddhahood, unlike the paths of the śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas

n.63According to the Tibetan mnyen pa and the Sanskrit mārdavatā. It is missing from the definitions of the terms in chapter 40 and also from the commentary. It is followed in the Sanskrit by ṛjakatā, “It is being honest,” which is absent from the Tibetan and the commentary.

n.64According to the Tibetan gya gyu med pa and the Sanskrit akutilatā. It is missing from the definitions of the terms in chapter 40 and also from the commentary. Apparently Matsunami has yet another item, translated by Gómez et al. as “lack of deviousness.”

n.65According to the Tibetan des pa, the commentary, and the Sanskrit suratatā. The list in chapter 40 [F.162.a.6] has dge ba instead of des pa, although the definition matches that in the commentary for des pa. This may be the remainder of the following ngang tshul dge ba, which is absent from the chapter 40 definitions and the commentary.

n.66According to the Tibetan ngang tshul dge ba and the Sanskrit suśīlatā. This is absent from the chapter 40 definitions and the commentary.

n.67According to the Tibetan ’byams par ’dzin pa and the Sanskrit sākhilyam. This is absent from the chapter 40 definitions and the commentary.

n.68According to the Tibetan ’jam pa and the Sanskrit mādhuryam, which can also mean “sweet.” In the chapter 40 definitions it is translated as mnyen pa, which in the first chapter had just been used to translate mārdavat. This was translated as “tolerant,” although it can also according to context mean “lenient,” “pliable,” “kind,” “soft,” “weak,” or “gentle.”

n.69According to the Tibetan, Sanskrit, and commentary. Absent from the list in chapter 40 [F.162.a.6].

n.70According to the BHS pūrvābhilāpitā (literally, “speaking first”), translated into Tibetan as “speaking honestly” (gsong por smra ba).

n.71According to the Degé Tibetan tshur shog legs par ’ong so and the Sanskrit ehīti svāgatavāditā. In both the commentary and chapter 40 [F.162.a.6-7] this item appears within the definition of “courteous.” The Degé appears to divide this into two: legs par ’ong so / tshur shog ces smra ba.

n.72From the Tibetan le lo med pa and the Sanskrit anālasya. Absent from the list in chapter 40 [F.162.a.7] and in the commentary, it is included within the definition of “serving the guru.”

n.73Tibetan: gus pa. Sanskrit: gaurava. The commentary’s explanation is to be fearful in the guru’s presence while seeing him as your teacher and being his follower at all times.

n.74The Chinese divides this into two qualities (respecting and making offerings) and has “venerable elders” instead of guru.

n.75Tibetan: sri zhu che ba. Sanskrit: guruśuśrūṣā. The Tibetan means “respect or reverence,” while the Sanskrit is “wish to listen” or “obedience.” The definition in chapter 40 [F.162.a.7] is to honor and serve the guru. The commentary defines it as the wish to listen to the guru, be near him, and look at him.

n.76There are spelling mistakes in the online version of the Vaidya Sanskrit: saṃghi­samuddhāta should be saṃdhi­samudghāta.

n.77According to the Tibetan khyad par du ’gro ba, and its definition in chapter 40 [F.162.b.7-8] and in the commentary, which say that this refers to the strengths, fearlessness, distinct qualities, and knowledge of the buddhas; the Sanskrit has jñāna­viśeṣa­gāmitā (“being brought to superior or special knowledge”).

n.78Bhāvanābhiniṣyandaḥ could be translated literally as “irrigation” or “outflow of meditation.” The Tibetan rgyu mthun pa has also been translated literally as “having a concordant cause.”

n.79According to the Sanskrit āpatti, which in this chapter was translated as nyes pa (“bad action,” “fault”). In chapter 40, when it is being defined, it is translated as ltung ba.

n.80According to the BHS Sanskrit (anunaya) and the Tibetan (rjes su chags pa) of chapter 40, and the first part of its definition. There appears to be a scribal error in this chapter in all the extant Sanskrit manuscripts of anuśaya for anunaya, and the Tibetan translates accordingly as bag la nyal (“latent tendency”). It is possible the scribal error is the other way around.

n.81Sanskrit: ājāneya. Tibetan: cang shes. Ājāneya was incorrectly defined as meaning “all-knowing” and was translated therefore into Tibetan as cang shes (“all-knowing”). The term ājāneya was primarily used for thoroughbred horses, but was also applied to people in a laudatory sense. According to chapter 40 [F.163.a.6] and the commentary, here it refers to a bodhisattva.

n.82According to the Tibetan and the Sanskrit. In chapter 40 [F.163.b.1] and the commentary it is translated as “a perfection of good qualities.”

n.83According to the definition in chapter 40 [F.163.b.4] and the commentary, where mtha’ yas pa’i ye shes is obviously translated from anantajñāna; in chapter 1 the term is samatajñāna (“knowledge of equality”), but the definition indicates that to be a scribal corruption. The word samatā appears just over a dozen items later.

n.84Pratisaṃdhi is translated into Tibetan in chapter 1 as tshig gi mtshams sbyor (“the connection of words”), while the commentary to chapter 1 translates this as tshig gi dgongs pa (possibly from abhisaṃdhi). The definition in chapter 40 of tshig gi mtshams sbyar ba [F.163.b.4-5] is ldem po ngag (saṃdhābhāṣya) (“words in which the intended meaning is not obvious”).

n.85According to the Tibetan and Sanskrit. It is absent from the list in chapter 40 and the commentary.

n.86The Gilgit manuscript has here an extra term pravrajyācittam, “the aspiration to mendicancy,” which does not appear in the Hodgson, Shastri, commentary, or Tibetan.

n.87According to the Tibetan, commentary, and Sanskrit. In the translation of chapter 40, “the words of” is omitted.

n.88Absent from chapter 1, but in the list in chapter 40 [F.164.a.5], the commentary, and the Sanskrit. Therefore it is added here for consistency, as it is evidently an unintended omission.

n.89Absent from the list of definitions in chapter 40, and from the translation of the commentary to chapter 1.

n.90According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit has īryā­patha­vikopanam instead of īryā­pathāvikopanam, so that the negation is omitted.

n.91The Tibetan translates avikalpa here and in the commentary as mi ’chos pa’i, but as rnam par mi rtog pa (“not conceptually fabricated”), a particular BHS meaning of the word, in chapter 40, [F.164.b] when it is being defined. The Sanskrit has īryā­patha­vikalpanam instead of īryā­pathāvikalpanam here, so that the negation is omitted, but the negation is present in chapter 40 in the Sanskrit. The commentary encompasses both meanings by saying that this means being free of negative thoughts and therefore the conduct is uncontrived, unfabricated.

n.92Here the Tibetan translates īryāpatha-prāsādikatā as spyod pa mdzes pa (“beautiful conduct”). The Chinese translates prāsādikatā as two different qualities: 端 (duan) (“proper,” “upright,” “dignified”), and 雅 (ya) (“elegant,” “graceful”). However, in chapter 40 [F.164.b] the Tibetan translates prāsādikatā in the more usual way as dang ba (“clear,” “serene,” “attractive”), but the Sanskrit has indriyapatha, presumably a corruption of īryāpatha, and therefore the Tibetan has dbang (“faculties”) instead of spyod pa (“conduct”). In that chapter the term is defined as the mind “being focused upon engagement with the Dharma, speaking rationally, knowing the right time, and teaching the Dharma correctly.” In this translation, for consistency, it will be translated here and in chapter 40 as spyod lam dang ba, in accord with the Sanskrit. The commentary to chapter 1, however, has dbang mdzas pa (“beautiful faculties”). The commentary states that this means seeing the equality of all phenomena, and therefore seeing what is correct and incorrect, and teaching others according to their aspirations. However, both the commentary and the definition in chapter 40 have subsumed the following two qualities as given in the sūtra’s first chapter.

n.93In chapter 40, this forms part of the definition of attractive conduct.

n.94In chapter 40, this forms part of the definition of attractive conduct.

n.95Literally, “the hands are always extended.” The commentary says “ready to give material possessions or the Dharma.”

n.96According to the Tibetan and Sanskrit. Absent from the definitions in chapter 40 [F.165.a.1] and in the commentary.

n.97According to the Tibetan sgrub pa dang nges par sgrub pa. Sanskrit: āhāranirhāra. Cf. Edgerton (112), where āharaṇatā means “winning, getting, attainment.” The Mahāvyutpatti has ’phrogs pa (“take”), zas (“food”), and when with prefixes as brjod (“say”) and gsol (“request”), and also ’snyod cing stobs pa, which means “to feed someone.” Also there is āharana, “to take” or “to hold.” The Tibetan translators have not been consistent, as in the definitions of the terms in chapter 40 where the Tibetan is zas sgrub pa (“attainment of food”), [F.165.a.1] with āhāra here translated as “food.” The definition is “sharp wisdom,” which does not appear to be food related. The commentary also defines it as “perfecting good qualities and eliminating negative ones, and that sharp wisdom develops from that.” Gómez et al. (n. 18, p. 85) describe this compound as a problematic term and give a conjectural translation as “bringing together and taking away” (p. 57).

n.98According to the Tibetan nges pa’i tshig rnam par gzhag pa shes pa and the Sanskrit nirukti­vyavasthāna­jñānam. Chapter 40 and the commentary omit “definitions” and define rnam par gzhag pa shes pa and vyavasthāna­jñānam, which the commentary describes as “skill in presenting the teachings to various kinds of individuals.”

n.99This is absent from the list in chapter 1, but present in the list in chapter 40, in the commentary, the Sanskrit, and the Chinese.

n.100In chapter 40 this is called “delight in dhyāna.”

n.101In chapter 40 this is called “no clinging” (Tibetan: ma chags pa; BHS: anadhyavasāna).

n.102According to the Sanskrit kurvaṇa. Translated into Tibetan as cho ’phrul.

n.103According to the Tibetan and Sanskrit of chapter 40, its definition there, and the commentary. Here in chapter 1 the Sanskrit has saṃskāra, translated into Tibetan as ’du byed, “composite activity.”

n.104According to the Tibetan and Sanskrit. Absent from chapter 40 and the commentary.

n.105According to the Tibetan and Sanskrit. It is later in the list in chapter 40 and the commentary.

n.106This paragraph differs in its order and contents from chapter 40 and the commentary, with an extra term, “no interest in gain and honors,” and without the two items of happiness and suffering.

n.107This is presented in two separate points in chapter 40.

n.108At this point the Matsunami Sanskrit apparently has another item in the list, translated by Gómez et al. as “gentleness.”

n.109According to chapter 40 [F.168.b.5], this is “not gaining profit from wisdom,” and in the commentary it is “not dishonoring the family of the tathāgata, by keeping one’s commitment.”

n.110The Tibetan smra ba nyung zhing mnyen pa literally means “speaking little and softly,” which could be taken as one quality. The BHS (malpabhāṣaṇatā / mitabhāṣaṇatā) and Chapter 40 have these two qualities clearly separated. In chapter 40 mnyen pa translates mārdavatā, which more explicitly means “softly.”

n.111According to the Tibetan; apparently does not appear in the Sanskrit, chapter 40, or the commentary.

n.112According to the Tibetan and the BHS meaning of avasādanatā.

n.113According to the commentary this is “the path of the Dharma.”

n.114According to the Tibetan (mi g.yo ba) and the Gilgit Sanskrit (akampya) of chapter 1, and the Sanskrit and Tibetan of chapter 40. For chapter 1 the Vaidya has aśāṭhya and the Hodgson and Shastri have sasādhya.

n.115According to the Tibetan gnyer pa. Sanskrit nimantraṇatā (Shastri: nimantrahatā): “to invite”; chapter 40 [F.166.a.6], and the commentary: mgron du gnyer ba (take care of as one’s guests). Does not appear in the Matsunami.

n.116In accordance with the commentary and chapter 40. In chapter 1, “characteristics” is absent.

n.117According to the Tibetan and Sanskrit. Absent in chapter 40 and the commentary.

n.118According to the Tibetan and Sanskrit. Absent in chapter 40 and the commentary.

n.119According to the Tibetan and Sanskrit. Absent in chapter 40 and the commentary.

n.120According to the Tibetan and Sanskrit. Absent in chapter 40 and the commentary.

n.121According to the Tibetan and Sanskrit. Absent in chapter 40 and the commentary.

n.122From the Sanskrit upalakṣanatā. The Tibetan has rtogs, which can mean “realize” or “understand.”

n.123According to the Tibetan and Sanskrit. Absent in chapter 40 and the commentary.

n.124According to the Tibetan and Sanskrit. Absent in chapter 40 and the commentary.

n.125In chapter 1 the Sanskrit has śīladṛdhatā (“stability of conduct”) and the Tibetan has tshul khrims dam pa (“excellent conduct”). In chapter 40 the Sanskrit has śīlādhiṣṭhānatā and the Tibetan has tshul khrims kyi gnas (“the basis of conduct”).

n.126According to the Sanskrit prajñā­pratilambhaḥ in chapter 40 [F.166.b.6] and in the commentary. Although it is absent in chapter 1, it is included here, as it has evidently been inadvertently omitted.

n.127According to the Tibetan and Sanskrit. Nevertheless, this does not appear in the list of qualities as given in chapter 40 [F.166.b]. According to Gómez et al. (n.20, p.85) this ātmajñatā and the preceding item, ekāramatā, form the single compound ekālambātajñatā (“knowledge of relying on solitude”) in Matsunami’s edition, even though they are separate items in all his three sources, and in the Gilgit. However, ekārāmatjñānatā is a possible original form of the compound.

n.128According to the Tibetan and Matsunami. The Sanskrit separates “contentment” and “little known” into separate items: alpajñatā / santuṣti. Although the phrase alpajñatā can mean “ignorance” in Sanskrit, here the BHS meaning is being assumed (Edgerton 68).

n.129According to the BHS meaning of dṛṣṛikṛta (Tibetan: lta bar gyur pa in chapter 1; lta bar byas pa in chapter 40 [F.166.b.7]; and lta bas byas pa in the commentary). Edgerton (269) translates them as “heresy.”

n.130According to the Tibetan, the Sanskrit here and in chapter 40, and the commentary.

n.131According to the Sanskrit and chapter 1 in the Tibetan, which could be read as dividing these into separate terms, with “knowledge” applying to the last. According to the commentary and chapter 40 [F.167.a.1-2], sthāna is translated as gnas, and is defined as the basis or root for a time of opportunity to practice good actions. The second part of the compound according to the commentary and chapter 40 is āsthāna (“basis” or “ground”) and not asthāna (Tibetan: gnas min) as translated in chapter 1. In chapter 40 the Sanskrit is avasthāna, translated as gzhi (“basis,” “foundation,” “ground”) and in the commentary as gnas skabs (“state,” “level,” “situation”), and this is defined as “the mind as the basis for all phenomena.” Third, in chapter 1, prasthāna was translated as ’jug pa (“entry,” “engagement”). The commentary translates this as rab tu gnas, and in chapter 40 the Sanskrit is pratisthāna, translated as rten. The commentary defines this as “faith as the foundation for all buddha qualities.” The commentary agrees with the translation in chapter 1 of pratipatti as sgrub pa (“accomplishment,” or “practice”), while chapter 40 translates it as nan tan (“application”). The commentary defines it as “perfecting that which is to be accomplished through familiarization with the path.” Neither the commentary nor chapter 40 have the concluding part of the compound: jñāna (Tibetan: shes pa, “knowledge”). The Tibetan translation of chapter 1 seems to be at fault in comparison to chapter 40 and the commentary, and therefore for consistency it has not been followed. gnas dang gnas min would be the standard way of saying “the appropriate and the inappropriate.”

n.132According to the Sanskrit hetu, chapter 40 (rgyu), and the commentary. In chapter 1, hetu is translated as gtan tshigs (“reason”).

n.133According to the Sanskrit yukti. Tibetan: rigs pa.

n.134Sanskrit: naya. Tibetan: tshul.

n.135Sanskrit: kāraṇa. Tibetan: rgyu. Absent in chapter 40 and the commentary.

n.136Sanskrit: dvāra. Tibetan: sgo. Defined in chapter 40 [F.167.a.3] as “giving up bad actions,” and defined by the commentary as “skill in methods of eliminating faults, which is the doorway into the city of liberation.”

n.137Sanskrit: mārga. Tibetan: lam. In chapter 40 this is part of the definition of “practice.”

n.138The Tibetan here in chapter 1 appears to translate pratipatti as two separate terms: nan tan dang sgrub pa, which does not occur in chapter 40 or in the commentary. The Sanskrit follows pratipatti with saṃdeśa (“teaching”), which is absent from the Tibetan, the commentary, and chapter 40.

n.139From the Tibetan phrin. Does not appear in the Sanskrit, chapter 40, or the commentary.

n.140Sanskrit: avavāda. Tibetan: gdams pa. The Sanskrit is in chapter 40, but the Tibetan is absent.

n.141According to the Tibetan of most Kangyurs: bstan pa la spyod pa. The Sanskrit divides this into two: anuśasanī caryā (“the instruction and the conduct”). The Degé has bsten pa (“reliance”), which is a scribal error.

n.142Absent from chapter 40 and the commentary. In chapter 6 [F.19.a.3] it is defined as patience that is in accord with the Buddha’s teaching, in which there is no doubt about the Buddha’s teaching and no negative conduct is engaged in.

n.143According to the Sanskrit and chapter 1 Tibetan. In chapter 40 and the commentary there is only “the level.”

n.144According to the Sanskrit akṣāntivigama and the Tibetan mi bzod pa dang bral ba. However, in chapter 40 and the commentary this is jātivigama (skye ba dang bral ba), “freedom from rebirth.”

n.145Yogācārabhūmi. Here, “yoga” according to chapter 40 is “meditation on the thirty-seven aspects of enlightenment.” It does not refer here to “the Yogācāra tradition of Asaṅga.”

n.146According to the Sanskrit and Tibetan. Absent from chapter 40 and the commentary.

n.147This is divided into two points in chapter 40.

n.148According to the Sanskrit vandanīyā. Tibetan: phyag bya ba (“pays homage,” “bows down to”).

n.149This is in the plural, because although Brahmā is the presiding deity over a thousand million worlds, each of those worlds has a Śakra or Indra upon its central mountain.

n.150According to the Sanskrit and Tibetan. Absent from chapter 40 and the commentary.

n.151According to the Sanskrit and Tibetan. Absent from chapter 40 [F.167.b.7] and the commentary, which instead have, “It is freedom from misery.”

n.152According to the Sanskrit viṣaya. Tibetan: g.yul, “battle,” which may be a scribal corruption of yul, perhaps because they are homophones and the copying was done by dictation.

n.153According to the Sanskrit and Tibetan. Absent from chapter 40 and the commentary.

n.154According to the Sanskrit kola. The Tibetan gzings can mean “a boat,” but also “a ferry,” which in Tibet was sometimes a raft.

n.155According to the commentary and chapter 40, which has “anger” (zhe sdang), while this chapter has “evil” or “wickedness” (nyes pa), mistakenly translating doṣa according to its meaning in Classical Sanskrit, while the BHS doṣa is the equivalent of the Classical Sanskrit dveṣa (“anger”).

n.156In the Sanskrit this appears earlier in the list, after “medicine for the sick.” Absent from chapter 40 and the commentary.

n.157In the Vaidya Sanskrit there follows at this point, “It is the liberation of all beings,” which is absent in the Tibetan, the commentary, and the Matsunami edition. The Dutt edition, online page 225, is not available.

n.158According to the Tibetan in chapter 1: sgrub pa. The Sanskrit āhārikā was translated by Gómez et al. according to an alternate meaning, “that which brings.” Chapter 40 has asaṃhartya, and therefore in that chapter and in the commentary it is accordingly translated as mi ’phrogs (“cannot be taken away”). The Sanskrit and Tibetan of chapter 1 better fit the definition of this term as given in chapter 40, but the commentary specifies that it cannot be undermined by māras or tīrthikas.

n.159Sanskrit: dharmakāya . Tibetan: chos kyi sku. Here, according to the commentary and chapter 40 [F.168.b.4], this does not refer to the immaterial state of buddhahood, but to the thirty-two physical signs that adorn the evident body of a buddha. However, this definition explaining what is meant by “adornment” may possibly refer instead to the next item but one, “the adornment of the bodhisattvas,” since both in chapter 40 and the commentary only one instance of “adornment” is mentioned.

n.160According to the Tibetan and Sanskrit. Absent from chapter 40 and the commentary. The text has only “conduct,” and “bodhisattva” is implied.

n.161Sanskrit: buddhaputra, Tibetan: sangs rgyas kyi sras. Literally, “sons of the buddhas.”

n.162Literally, “eldest sons.” Sanskrit: jyeṣṭhaputra; Tibetan: sras thu bo. A designation for the principal bodhisattvas.

n.163In chapter 40 this is combined with the next quality, while omitting “the wisdom of buddhahood.”

n.164In the commentary and chapter 40 this and the preceding quality appear to have been combined into one, perhaps due a scribal ommission.

n.165According to the Tibetan thos pa, and the Sanskrit śruta. The commentary has thob pa (“attainment”) in error for thos pa.

n.166This is separated into three points in chapter 40.

n.167According to the Tibetan and the Vaidya Sanskrit. Absent from chapter 40 and the commentary, but apparently partially present, conjoined with the preceding term, in the Matsunami.

n.168Sanskrit: sūratā. Tibetan: des pa. It can also mean “pleasant,” “heroic,” “noble.”

n.169Depending on the value of nayuta, which means “a million” in classical Sanskrit and can mean “a hundred thousand million” in BHS. It is the latter meaning that has been taken here, translated as khrag khrig. Thus, “eighty hundred thousand,” which is “eight million million,” which is “eight trillion.”

n.170According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan has just “a thousand,” though “a hundred thousand” is mentioned at the beginning of the sūtra.

n.171According to the Tibetan dge slong ma. The Sanskrit repeats bhikṣu .

n.172Literally, “ten million times a hundred thousand times a hundred thousand million.”

n.173According to the Sanskrit vihāra. Tibetan: gtsug lag khang. These are equivalents in the Mahāvyutpatti, but gtsug lag khang can also mean “temple” in Tibetan.

n.174Literally, “a hundred thousand [times a] hundred thousand million.”

n.175Literally, “seventy-six hundred thousand.”

n.176Literally, “eighteen thousand ten-millions.”

n.177Literally, “seventy-six thousand ten-millions.”

n.178Literally, “fourteen thousand ten-millions.”

n.179According to the Tibetan and the Shastri and Hodgson manuscripts. The prose up to this point does not appear in the Chinese or the Gilgit manuscript.

n.180The Sanskrit is in the third person in this first line of the verse, and the Tibetan is non-specific, but the first person is used here to avoid an appearance of contradiction.

n.181I.e. buddhas. In the Chinese, “who have the ten strengths” does not appear, but it is in the Tibetan and all Sanskrit versions.

n.182In all appearances in the translation that read “bodhisattva conduct,” “bodhisattva” is only implied in the original, but added in the translation for clarity.

n.183Literally, “biped” in the Sanskrit, Chinese, and Tibetan.

n.184According to the Sanskrit sadā. Does not appear in the Tibetan or Chinese.

n.185According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan has the plural “those jinas,” which does not fit the narrative here. The Chinese does not specify singular or plural.

n.186Literally, “biped.” The Chinese has “who save(s) beings from lower realms.”

n.187According to the Sanskrit and Chinese. The Tibetan btsun mo is honorific for “wife,” but could also mean “queen.”

n.188Sanskrit: bimbara (variants: viṃbara, viṃvara, vivara). Tibetan: dkrigs. In the Sanskrit the value of the number varies between “a hundredth of a kaṅkara” or “a hundred kaṅkara.” According to Edgerton (p. 400), bimbara in the Tibetan tradition is synonymous with kaṅkara. In the Tibetan tradition of numbers, dkrigs is “a hundred thousand trillion.” In this verse, the number is “a thousand million dkrigs,” yielding “a hundred million million million million,” a hundred followed by 24 zeros, i.e., a hundred septillion. The Chinese has a number that is most likely four billion.

n.189According to the Tibetan lag rkang and the Chinese. “Legs” does not appear in the available Sanskrit. Unavailable in the Gilgit manuscript.

n.190The Buddha’s hometown. In the Sanskrit and Chinese there is only the shorter form, Kapila.

n.191According to the Sanskrit yuga. According to the Mahāvyutpatti, the Tibetan equivalent would be zung (pair). The Tibetan here seems corrupt. The Degé has ’phrul (“miracle”). Kangyurs such as Lithang, Peking, and Narthang have phrugs. However, this is clearly intended to be a reference to the Buddha’s two principal students. The Chinese has a transliteration that resembles śiṣya.

n.192According to the Sanskrit alolupa, the Chinese, and the Yongle and Peking Kangyurs, brkam. The Degé has bskam (“withered”).

n.193According to the Sanskrit īryāya caryāya, īryā (lifestyle of a mendicant) and caryā, which regularly implies that the conduct is that of a bodhisattva. Tibetan: spyod dang spyod lam, which could be translated as “just conduct and behavior.” The Chinese combines them both into one: 安住威儀諸行等 (an zhu wei yi zhu xing deng), which usually refers to the conduct of the ordained saṅgha, but can refer to bodhisattva conduct as well.

n.194According to the Sanskrit pratibhāna and the Chinese. The Tibetan spobs pa is “confidence,” though it implies confidence in teaching.

n.195According to the Sanskrit ananta and the Chinese. Absent from the Tibetan.

n.196According to the Tibetan, Hodgson, and Shastri. The Gilgit and Chinese have “the buddhas in the ten directions / who have appeared in the past.”

n.197From the Sanskrit udgrahītavya. Tibetan: gzung.

n.198From the BHS paryavāptavya. Tibetan: kun chub pa.

n.199From the Sanskrit dhārayitavya. Tibetan: bcang.

n.200From the Sanskrit vācayitavya. Tibetan: klog.

n.201From the Sanskrit pravartayitavya. Tibetan: rab tu gdon pa.

n.202From the Sanskrit uddeṣṭavya. Tibetan: lung mnod par bya.

n.203From the Sanskrit svādhyātavya. Tibetan: kha ton du bya.

n.204From the Sanskrit araṇa, which also means “passionless, sinless, without impurity.” This is regularly translated into Tibetan as nyon mongs, which is also used to translate kleśa . Gómez et al. have interpreted it as “being in solitude,” presumably from an edition with araṇya (“solitude”).

n.205From the Sanskrit bahulīkartavya. Tibetan: mang du bya.

n.206From the Sanskrit parebhyaśca vistarena saṃprakāśayitavya. Tibetan: gshan dag la yang rgya cher rab tu bstan par bya. This entire list is simplified in the Chinese to three elements: “should recite, uphold / retain, and explain it to others widely.”

n.207Sanskrit: vidyā­caraṇa­saṃpannaḥ; Tibetan: rig pa dang zhabs su ldan pa. A common description of buddhas. According to the commentary, it refers to the eightfold path, with “wisdom” being the right view and “conduct” the other seven aspects of the path.

n.208From the Sanskrit āgama. Tibetan: gzhi (“basis”), but the commentary defines it as “a direct perception by those who are worthy.”

n.209According to the Tibetan. “Blossomed” does not appear in the Sanskrit. The Chinese is similar to the Tibetan interpretation, but uses the verb “attain” 得諸相花 (de zhu xiang hua).

n.210According to the Tibetan bsam gyis mi khyab. The Sanskrit has ananta (“infinite,” “endless”) and the Chinese has “infinite.” Apparently absent from the Mitsunami.

n.211According to the Sanskrit and Chinese. Absent from the Tibetan.

n.212From one of the meanings of the Sanskrit saṃvrta. Tibetan: bsdams pa.

n.213According to the Tibetan. BHS Sanskrit: grantha (“fetters”); the Chinese corresponds to the Sanskrit. The commentary defines this as “the bondage of the māras.”

n.214Sanskrit literally, “burning” (paridāha).

n.215According to the Sanskrit tṛṣṇa and the Yongle and Peking sred pa. The Degé has srid pa (“becoming”) in error for sred pa. Sred pa is also confirmed by the commentary. The Chinese seems to have combined this with the preceding quality into one 盡諸渴愛 (jin zhu ke ai): literally, “the exhaustion of all thirsts (渴, ke, derived from “burning”) and cravings (愛, ai),” which can be understood as “strong cravings.”

n.216This long passage, starting from “The Bhāgavan is thus…” (3.­3) forms the text of the sūtra Remembering the Buddha (Toh 279, Buddhanusmṛti). Although composed of groups of epithets, many of which are found elsewhere (particularly in the Vinaya texts), the passage as a whole is only found in the Kangyur in these two places, and the King of Samādhis is therefore presumably the source of the shorter text. See also i.­15.

n.217According to the Tibetan bsngags pa. The Sanskrit varṇa has a number of meanings, including “color” and “caste.” In this instance it could mean “qualities,” “nature,” “splendor,” and so on, which could have been a more appropriate translation.

n.218According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit and Chinese are much briefer: “Then at that time, the Bhagavān recited these verses.”

n.219Literally, “ten millions.” Sanskrit: koṭi. Tibetan: bye ba. The highest number in Classical Sanskrit. Does not appear in the Chinese.

n.220The Chinese adds 無量 (wu liang), “numerous, countless times.”

n.221According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit: “I showed great kindness at all times.”

n.222The order of verses 7 and 8 is reversed in the Sanskrit. Verse 7 is not present in the Chinese.

n.223According to the Sanskrit śīla. Tibetan: ngang tshul.

n.224According to the Tibetan translation of matsarī, which accords with the Mahāvyutpatti and the Chinese, whereas in Sanskrit dictionaries it is said to mean “envy.”

n.225According to the Sanskrit īrṣya, the Mahāvyutpatti definition, and the Chinese. The Tibetan repeats ser sna (“stinginess”).

n.226According to the Sanskrit nimantraṇa. The Tibetan and Chinese translate it by the more usual meaning “invite.”

n.227According to the Tibetan dad pa. Sanskrit: prema (affection).

n.228The order of the first and second half of this four-line verse is reversed in the Sanskrit and Chinese.

n.229Chinese: “those with the ten strengths” 諸十力 (zhu shi li).

n.230According to the Sanskrit where samāhita is in the accusative. The Tibetan translates it as instrumental, “through meditation,” probably through an error of pas for pa’i, which was used in an earlier verse: “verses of meditation.” Chinese: “one verse of this samādhi.”

n.231At this point in the Gilgit, Sanskrit, and Chinese (but not in the Tibetan, Hodgson, or Shastri), there is a prose section where the Buddha tells Candraprabha that a bodhisattva should preserve and promulgate this teaching.

n.232According to the Tibetan, which here has the unusual spelling mnod pa. For the Sanskrit here, uddiśatha, the Mahāvyutpatti has both “give” (phog pa) and “receive” (nod pa), as in “receive instruction.” Uddiśatha is a BHS word that usually means “propose” or “calculate.” The Classical Sanskrit uddiśatha can mean “show, explain.” The Chinese word used here is 說 (shuo), which literally means “tell,” but can also mean “teach, explain.”

n.233This alternative title for the sūtra was used in a few instances by Indian authors quoting it, e.g. Śāntarakṣita and Kamalaśīla (see Gómez et al., 1989, p. 16).

n.234According to the Tibetan and Sanskrit. Chinese: “sandalwood is the best of all kinds of incense.”

n.235According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit has vana (“wood”) in error for varṇa (“praise”).

n.236According to the Sanskrit and Tibetan. Chinese: 實不聞香 (shi bu wen xiang), “never smelled that incense.”

n.237According to the Sanskrit and Tibetan. Chinese: “There will be bhikṣus with inappropriate conduct,” 不應式比丘 (bu ying shi bi qiu).

n.238According to the Sanskrit and Tibetan. Chinese: “There will be bhikṣus...”

n.239According to the Sanskrit and Tibetan. Chinese: “There will be bhikṣus...”

n.240According to the Sanskrit and Tibetan. Chinese: “…by teaching it.”

n.241According to the Sanskrit and Tibetan. Chinese: “There will be bhikṣus...”

n.242The Sanskrit is maruta, which can mean specifically the deities of storms and winds, but is also used generally for “deities,” and therefore like deva was translated into the Tibetan as lha. Chinese: “gods and dragons.”

n.243Verses 31 and 32 are combined into one in the Chinese.

n.244According to the Tibetan. BHS: atuliyu (“unequaled”).

n.245According to the Sanskrit and Tibetan. Chinese: 若得三昧微妙地，智者便得廣智藏 (ruo de san mei wei miao di, zhi zhe bian de gang zhi zang), “If he attains the level of subtle samādhi, the wise will gain the vast treasure of wisdom (or the treasure of vast wisdom).”

n.246Verse 33 in the Chinese.

n.247According to the BHS saukhya. The Tibetan has skyed (“born”) in error for skyid (“happiness”). Chinese: “all kinds of happiness.”

n.248According to the Sanskrit pūrvamgama (“going first”), which is usually translated as ’dren pa (“leader”). The Chinese also has 上首 (shang shou, “leader”).

n.249According to the commentary, the title of this chapter is “Mindfulness of the Buddha’s Qualities.”

n.250According to Tibetan, Hodgson, and Shastri. In the Gilgit manuscript, the opening of this chapter is just one sentence: “Then the youth Candraprabha asked the Bhagavān.” This opening does not appear in the Chinese.

n.251Sanskrit: upapatti. Tibetan: skyes pa. Chinese: 無所起 (wu suo qi) This term is also used for “physical,” but here the commentary defines it as “the non-arising of thoughts in samādhi.”

n.252Sanskrit apratisaṃdhi. Tibetan: mtshams sbyor ba med pa. This is the negation of pratisaṃdhi, a term that is used for the transition between lives, i.e., conception in the womb, but here the commentary defines it as being “the continued process of thinking.”

n.253Sanskrit pratisaṃdhi­jñāna. According to the commentary this means that it is not a state of cessation but a continuous clear knowledge. Translation according to the Tibetan, Gilgit, Hodgson, and Shastri. However, the Matsunami edition apparently has “knowledge of non-continuation.” The Chinese agrees with the Matsunami edition: 無和合智 (wu he he zhi).

n.254The commentary has khung in error for khur.

n.255According to the commentary, the burden comprises the skandhas, the kleśas, vows, and diligence.

n.256According to the Tibetan, Matsunami, and Chinese. The BHS Sanskrit doṣa is the equivalent of the Classical Sanskrit dveṣa (“anger”), while in Classical Sanskrit doṣa means “fault” or “wickedness.”

n.257These are listed as three, 7-9, in Chinese.

n.258According to the Tibetan and Chinese. The Vaidya Sanskrit has akuśala (“wickedness”) in error for kuśala (“goodness”).

n.259According to the commentary, this means “abstaining from sleeping in the first and last of the three periods of the night, in order to engage in virtuous activities.”

n.260Sanskrit: prahāṇa. Tibetan spong ba. Gómez et al. (p. 87) discuss its alternative meaning of “exertion.” Its definition seems to not be present in the commentary. The Chinese has “not abandoning samādhi,” 不捨禪定 (bu she chan ding).

n.261According to the Sanskrit upapattiṣu, most Kangyurs skye ba, and the Chinese. The Degé has skye bo (“beings”), which occurs later in this list as the translation of pṛthagjaneṣu. The commentary defines it as “not creating the causes of continuing in saṃsāra.”

n.262According to the Tibetan and Chinese. The Vaidya Sanskrit adds karmaṇām, “the activities of the internal āyatanas.”

n.263[23] is not present in the Chinese.

n.264According to Tibetan gzi chen po and Matsunami. The Vaidya has BHS mahaujaskatā, which can mean both “great might” and “great majesty” or “great brilliance.” The Chinese has “great merit” 大福德 (da fu de).

n.265The Chinese has 善知識 (shan zhi shi) from the Sanskrit kalyāṇa-mitra.

n.266According to the Sanskrit. In the Tibetan, this has been conjoined with “not harming those with good conduct.” The Chinese has combined [30], [31], and [35] into one, 無怒恚心 (wu nu hui xin), and added “abandoning crude and malicious speech” 捨麁惡言 (she cu er yan) and “helping and protecting others” 救護於彼 (jiu hu yu bi).

n.267According to the Tibetan and the commentary. The Vaidya Sanskrit divides this into two: “the emptiness of phenomena” and “analogous patience.”

n.268The Chinese has combined [39] and [40] into one quality: 於一切智而得順忍 (yu yi qie zhi er de shun ren).

n.269The Gilgit and Chinese have simply, “Then, the Bhagavān taught these extensive verses.”

n.270According to the Sanskrit and Chinese. The Tibetan has thos (“hear”), apparently in error for thob (“attain”).

n.271As elsewhere in the sūtra, āhārī is translated into Tibetan as “taking food.” This does not make much sense here, and so it is translated here in one of its other Sanskrit meanings. The Chinese also translates as 食 (shi), which is “food” as a noun and “eating (and drinking)” as a verb, but interprets the entire verse as a vipaśyanā practice: “If jealousy arises in your mind because of food, you should meditate on the impurity of food. If you strive for accomplishment with boundless effort and meditate deeply on this, you will attain samādhi.” 若為食起嫉妬心, 當觀食已無有淨, 用功無量乃得成, 若深觀此能得定 (ruo wei shi qi ji du xin, dang guan shi yi wu you jing, yong gong wu liang nai de cheng, ruo shen guan ci neng de ding).

n.272According to the BHS arthi. Absent from the Tibetan, but added here for clarity.

n.273This verse is described by Gómez et al. as being problematic in Sanskrit. The Tibetan and Chinese translations differ from each other.

n.274According to the Tibetan and Dutt. The Hodgson, Shastri, and Matsunami have the unusual na yubuddhi instead of bhayubuddhi. The Chinese has a slightly different translation of this line.

n.275I.e., the buddhas.

n.276The commentary explains that this means “knowing the equality of the composite and noncomposite.”

n.277Chinese: 此緣佛相是有作, 能除一切有相想 (ci yuan fo xiang shi you zuo, neng chu yi qie you xiang xiang) “such an attribute of the Buddha is created, it can eliminate the conceptualization of attributes.”

n.278According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit and Chinese: “having ceased conceptualizing ‘nothing.’ ”

n.279According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit mahānubhava has many meanings, such as “great experience” or “great authority.” Gómez et al. translate it as “overpowering inspiration.” Chinese: “buddhas of the ten directions.”

n.280According to the Tibetan and Chinese. The Sanskrit does not have “suffering.”

n.281According to the Tibetan ’ongs dang mi ’ongs, literally, “come (i.e. ‘is present’) and not come,” and the Sanskrit anāgatā āgatā. This was translated in Gómez et al. (p. 78) as “past and future,” though “past” is usually gata (which also means “gone”), but “past” is implied and therefore added to the translation. The Chinese has simply “all phenomena.”

n.282According to most Kangyurs rkyal pa and the Sanskrit vastra. The Degé has the scribal corruption rgyal ba. Chinese: “excellent medicines,” 良妙藥 (liang miao yao).

n.283According to the Tibetan, Vaidya, Sanskrit, and Chinese. The Matsunami edition appears to be quite different from the translation by Gómez et al.

n.284According to the Tibetan. The title of this chapter in the Sanskrit is Buddhānusmṛti (“Remembering the Buddha,” or “Mindfulness of the Buddha”). This is the end of fascicle 1 in the Chinese.

n.285This entire opening does not appear in the Gilgit or Chinese. There is simply, “Then the Bhagavān said to the youth Candraprabha.”

n.286According to the Sanskrit and Chinese. The Tibetan appears to translate as “more innumerable than innumerable.”

n.287The Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Chinese use two synonymous phrases.

n.288According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan in the Degé has the negative: “they are not concerned with their next life.” Chinese: “They are merely concerned with this life and their next life.”

n.289Chinese: “They do not emphasize the accumulation …”

n.290There is a paragraph in the Gilgit Sanskrit and the Chinese that does not appear in the later Sanskrit or the Tibetan: “What, young man, is the concern for the present life? It is the intention to have the five sensory pleasures. What, young man, is the concern for the next life? It is attaining rebirth in higher existences.”

n.291The Chinese has a different interpretation here: 我今說如是法, 令眾生於其檀行不為究竟勝供養, 但以無上行而供養我 (wo jin shuo ru shi fa, ling zhong sheng yu qi tan xing bu wei jiu jing sheng gong yang, dan yi wu shang xing er gong yang wo) “I will now teach this Dharma so that beings will not perceive their acts of generosity as the ultimate supreme offering; instead, they will make their unsurpassable conduct / practice as their offering to me.”

n.292According to the Tibetan skyo bar bya ba (literally, “to make sad”) and the BHS saṃvejana (“to shudder at”). Chinese: 覺悟 (jue wu), literally, “waking them up,” and also “making them realize, or enlightening them.”

n.293According to the Tibetan, the commentary, and the Hodgson Sanskrit. The commentary states that the Buddha has praised entering the homeless life. In the Gilgit and Shastri Sanskrit: “He does not praise the perfection of generosity, he does not praise the perfection of conduct. He praises the ultimate conclusion.” Chinese: 如來非說檀波羅蜜以為究竟清淨，究竟吉祥，究竟梵行，究竟窮盡，究竟最後，究竟涅槃 (ru lai fei shuo tan po luo mi yi wei jiu jing qing jing, jiu jing ji xiang, jiu jing fan xing, jiu jing qiong jin, jiu jing zui hou, jiu jing nie pan) The Chinese interprets this as, “He does not consider the generosity paramita as ultimate purity,” and so on. The Chinese sentence includes more items.

n.294According to the Tibetan and Chinese. Sanskrit: “800,000.”

n.295This name does not appear in the Sanskrit, but śūra as the original of dpa’ ba, rather than vīra, is based on the name that his followers attain.

n.296According to the bye phrag of the Urga Kangyur. The Degé has bye brag, which does not match the prose passage. The Chinese has eight “yi” 八億, which can be “800,000” or “80 million.”

n.297This verse does not appear in the Chinese, but is present in the Sanskrit, including the Gilgit.

n.298According to the Tibetan, Hodgson, and Chinese. The Gilgit and Shastri Sanskrit have “as an offering to the Dharma.”

n.299According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit has “Through all that good karma.”

n.300Not in the Gilgit or Chinese.

n.301Chinese: 若人增上修此忍 (ruo ren zeng shang xiu ci ren), “If a person practices this patience with great force.”

n.302According to the Sanskrit and the commentary. The Tibetan translation here reads, “This is the path to deathlessness.” Chinese: 非此能證甘露道 (fei cie neng zheng gan lu dao), which can mean, “abandoning this (incorrect view) is the path to deathlessness.”

n.303Chinese: 勸捨惡道住善趣 (quan she er dao zhu shan qu), “Therefore they advise beings to abandon the wrong / nonvirtuous path and dwell in the correct / virtuous path.”

n.304There is a play on words in the Sanskrit in relation to why the word bodhisattva is used, which is not evident in Tibetan or English. In the first line, the words “knows” (Tibetan: rtogs) and “beings” (sems can), which are the first two words of the verse, are in Sanskrit: bodheti sattvān.

n.305According to the Sanskrit and Chinese for clarity. The Tibetan has “There is no soul within the body / And you have not attained buddhahood.” The commentary has “If as many millions of māras as there are sands in the Ganges came before them in the forms of buddhas, and said, ‘There are beings and souls,’ and so on, they would, with an unwavering mind, answer them in this way: ‘Through the power of the realization of selflessness by valid knowledge, I have realized correctly that there are no beings, souls, and so on. And you are not buddhas!’ ”

n.306According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan omits “within.” Chinese: 悉斷惡見煩惱盡 (xi duan er jian fan nao jin), “They have terminated all wrong views and exhausted all defilements.”

n.307According to the Sanskrit nara, the commentary skye ba, and the Chinese 眾生及壽命 (zhong sheng ji shou ming). The Tibetan has ming (“name”) in error for mi (“human,” “man”).

n.308According to the Sanskrit stabdha. The Tibetan translates as “proud” (nga rgyal). The Chinese has 姦偽 (jian wei, “crafty”), 兇暴 (xiong bao, “cruel, violent”), and 不攝斂 (bu she nian, “unrestrained, undisciplined”).

n.309According to the Tibetan and Chinese. The Sanskrit (BHS) has prasādu (to be attracted to, or to have faith in).

n.310According to the Sanskrit and Chinese, for the sake of clarity. The Tibetan appears to have blended together the last two groups to create “brings fulfilment” (don, artha), “benefit” (phan pa, hita), “and happiness to a multitude of beings, to humans, and devas.”

n.311These are the four retentions ( dhāraṇī ) explained in this sūtra (see 24.­63) to be retention of all that is taught about the infinite composite phenomena, retention of what is said in infinite sounds, retention of everything that is taught about the infinite kleśas, and retention of everything that is taught about the infinite benefits of the qualities of purification.

n.312The corresponding Chinese verse is a summary of the three kinds of patience.

n.313According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit has “the best of humans, the sugatas, see him.” The Chinese has, “When the sugatas see such bodhisattvas,” 善逝見彼菩薩時 (shan shi jian bi pu sa shi).

n.314BHS: āryacetikā (revered noble ones). The Tibetan mchod rten could be misunderstood to mean “stūpa.” The Chinese devotes the last three lines to various auspicious signs instead.

n.315According to the Sanskrit and Chinese. The Tibetan seems to be the result of a corruption so that jāyati (birth) was changed to perhaps jānāti (“know,” “perceive”): “The emptinesses do not see / are not seen and have no death.”

n.316According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit vijānatha is the present-tense, second-person-plural form, but presumably this is the Sanskritization of a second-person-plural middle-Indic optative, such as the Pali second-person-plural optative ending yetha.

n.317The first part of the chapter until this point is missing in the Gilgit and the Chinese.

n.318The name means “arising from nonexistence,” 無所有起 (wu suo you qi) in the Chinese.

n.319According to the Sanskrit tṛṇa and the Yongle and Peking rtswa. The Degé has rtsa ba (“roots”).

n.320The Sanskrit adds auṣadha (“herbs”) before “forests.” Chinese: “trees, forests, and medicinal herbs.”

n.321According to the Tibetan ri. Sanskrit: auṣadha (“herbs”).

n.322According to the Tibetan dpa’ bo. The Sanskrit dhīra can mean “constant and resolute and calm” as well as “brave and courageous.”

n.323The past passive participle nirvṛta means “extinguished,” so the line reads literally, “he was extinguished like a flame.” Nirvāna literally means “extinguishment.”

n.324These concluding eleven verses do not appear in the Chinese. Instead there is this concluding sentence: “Then the Bhagavān said to the youth Candraprabha, ‘Young man, you should reflect that this samādhi has such great power. It can cause a bodhisattva to attain perfect buddhahood.’ ”

n.325The Sanskrit has an additional concluding verse exhorting those who wish to attain buddhahood to possess this sūtra.

n.326This opening of the chapter until this point is absent in the Gilgit and the Chinese.

n.327In Gilgit, this verse was the last verse of the preceding chapter. This verse and the preceding prose that begin this chapter do not appear in the Chinese.

n.328Sanskrit: “who wish for this samādhi.” Absent from the Tibetan. “Who wish to attain quickly the highest, complete enlightenment of perfect buddhahood” does not appear in the Chinese.

n.329Chinese: “should rest in.”

n.330According to the Sanskrit, including Gilgit. The Chinese is briefer: “Young man, bodhisattva mahāsattvas should rest in the patience of profound Dharma.” The entire passage in Chinese is: “Young man, you should know that this samādhi has such great power; it will enable bodhisattva mahāsattvas to attain the highest, complete enlightenment of perfect buddhahood. Young man, bodhisattva mahāsattvas should rest in the patience of profound Dharma.”

n.331According to the commentary: “They arise from oneself and not from illusions created by another.” In this sentence, the Chinese includes another analogy: “like a wild horse” 如野馬 (ru ye ma).

n.332The Chinese repeats all the analogies here.

n.333According to the Tibetan mi ’jigs pa thob pa, the Gilgit abhayaprāpta, and the Chinese 無畏 (wu wei). The Dutt has arūpaprāpta (attainment of formlessness), apparently from the Hodgson and Shastri, which is repeated in the Vaidya edition.

n.334According to the commentary, this means “the memory of previous lives.”

n.335According to the Tibetan rtogs pa can and the BHS meaning of gatiman. The Chinese has translated it literally as 去者 (qu zhe), “those who have gone to.”

n.336According to the BHS ananganaḥ and the Chinese. The Tibetan translates as nyon mongs med pa, which it also uses as the translation for niṣkleśa (being without kleśas ) just a little further on in this list.

n.337Sanskrit: ājāneya. Tibetan: cang shes. Ājāneya was incorrectly defined as meaning “all-knowing” and was translated therefore into Tibetan as cang shes (“all-knowing”). The term ājāneya was primarily used for thoroughbred horses, but was also applied to people in a laudatory sense. The commentary at a later point states this this means both “tamed” and “fearless.” Chinese translates as “those who are tamed” 調伏者 (tiao fu zhe).

n.338This term probably has its origins in the Middle Indic mahānāga, from which came the BHS Sanskrit mahānagna, meaning “a great champion,” “a man of distinction and nobility.” The BHS nagna can mean both “champion” and “naked” while in Classical Sanskrit it only means “naked.” Nāga can mean “elephant” and can also refer to the cobra deity that is called “nāga” in this translation. Therefore the Chinese translated this as “great dragon” 大龍 (da long).

n.339In this passage the prestigious titles of those in the traditional brahmanical tradition are used as titles of those who have mastered the Buddhist path. The commentary states, “the bodhisattvas are brahmins because they do no bad actions.”

n.340For snātaka , see glossary; Chinese: “one who has bathed” 沐浴者 (mu yu zhe). However, the commentary states here that bodhisattvas are snātaka because they have been washed clean of all the stains of the kleśas and remain in the water of patience.

n.341The Sanskrit of the threefold description here (of which this is the first) is pāragaḥ vedakaḥ śrotriyaḥ. The commentary states that bodhisattvas are masters (pāraga, pha rol du song ba) of the Vedas, as they have reached their ultimate conclusion (rig byed kyi mthar thug pa’i pha rol du song bas so, F.43.b.4).

n.342The commentary states that bodhisattvas are vedaka (rig par byed), as they know the nature of whatever is taught.

n.343For śrotriya , see glossary. However, the commentary states here that bodhisattvas are śrotriya because they have renounced everything.

n.344The commentary states that “Śākya” refers to Buddha Śākyamuni, who was born in the Śākya clan.

n.345The commentary states that this means there are no more “thorns of māras, kleśas, and so on,” that appear.

n.346According to the Tibetan and Chinese; does not appear in the Vaidya Sanskrit or the commentary.

n.347This is an analogy to the defensive trench around a fortification, which the commentary states is a boundary created by anger, and so on.

n.348The commentary states this is a boundary created by the kleśas.

n.349The commentary states this refers to the habitual tendency for the kleśas.

n.350The commentary states this means the vicious disease of the kleśas.

n.351The commentary states this means that they utter the lion’s roar that proclaims selflessness.

n.352The commentary states this means that their minds are at rest in meditation at all times.

n.353The commentary states this means that they are both trained and fearless in the battle with the kleśas.

n.354The commentary states this means that they are able to pull the heavy burden of benefiting all beings.

n.355The commentary states this means that they are victorious over the māras.

n.356The commentary states this means that they can single-handedly overcome the strength of the māras.

n.357The commentary states this means that their qualities are a delight to beings.

n.358The commentary states this means that they are unstained by the mud of saṃsāra.

n.359The commentary states this means that thay are filled with “white,” i.e. good, qualities.

n.360The commentary states this means that they know how to tame the most malicious beings.

n.361The commentary states this means that they bring delight and light that is like amrita to beings.

n.362According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan and Chinese omit “human.”

n.363Verses 9 and 10 are condensed into one verse in the Chinese.

n.364According to the Sanskrit śailavanāntare and the commentary gcong rong du. The Tibetan translates this as nags ri’i khrod (“a mountain forest”). The Chinese translates it as “mountain valley” 山谷 (shan gu).

n.365Verses 13 and 14 are condensed into one verse in the Chinese.

n.366The numbering follows the Sanskrit. Verse 17 is absent in the Tibetan, but it is commented on in the commentary. It repeats much of the content of verse 16: “When the mother’s son dies / In a dream she loudly laments. / But no son died for that mother. / Know that all phenomena are like that.” Absent in the Chinese as well.

n.367Tibetan: de ni ’dus ma byas kyi rigs zhes bya. Sanskrit: asaṃskṛtaṃ gotramidaṃ pravucyati. The language of the Tibetan and the commentary, and the notion of a noncomposite lineage (gotra) is here reminiscent of tathāgatagarbha theory.

n.368This verse is not present in the Chinese.

n.369The Chinese has “four methods of mindfulness.”

n.370The Sanskrit uses the term kāyasakṣin, “one who has the body as a witness,” which is explained in, for example, the Pali Kāyasakkhisutta as someone whose body has experienced the qualities, such as bliss and samādhi, of the four dhyānas. That is, they have directly experienced it for themselves.

n.371BHS: pṛthu sarva manyanā, “all worldly pride.”

n.372The order of verses 7–35 is heavily rearranged in the Chinese.

n.373The commentary states that Udraka was also known as Digambhara, which is also the name of a Jain school. However, the name Udraka (Rudraka in some texts) is best known in Buddhism as one of the first teachers of the Buddha. The Buddha stated that after death he was born in the formless realm but would eventually be reborn as an animal. The story for Udraka given in the commentary is that his motivation to meditate was to attain miraculous powers. He succeeded and was famous for being able to fly. But when he was told that his path was not genuine, he fell from the sky and went to the hells.

n.374According to the Sanskirt hanyate. The Tibetan translates as bcom (“vanquished”). The Chinese has “he will be killed ….”

n.375According to the Tibetan mi rgod. The Sanskrit caura is “bandit” or “thief.” The Chinese omits “thousands” and describes the bandits or thieves as “strong and carrying spears.” In Tibetan mi rgod can also mean “an ape” and could be used for “bandits.”

n.376The singular form is according to the Sanskrit.

n.377According to the Tibetan mar. The Sanskrit arpimaṇḍa actually means the scum formed when heating melted butter in order to create ghee. The Chinese has “like two clarified butters in accord” 猶二醍醐合 (you er ti hu he).

n.378According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan has “eat and drink.” The Chinese does not contain either verb and inteprets generally as, “Without proper understanding of the way.” 不應於其法 (bu ying yu qi fa).

n.379According to the Sanskrit bisā and the commentary pad ma’i rtsa ba. The Tibetan here has simply rtsa ba. Here the Chinese translates the Sanskrit bisā as 泥藕 (ni ou), “mud and lotus roots,” rather than simply as “lotus roots,” denoting that lotus roots grow in the mud and are covered in mud when the elephants rip them up from the mud.

n.380According to the Sanskrit hastipota. The Mahāvyutpatti has glang for “elephant,” though in later translations this was used exclusively for “oxen.” The Chinese has “elephant.”

n.381According to the Tibetan and Chinese. The Sanskrit has “birth and illness.”

n.382According to the Sanskrit. In Tibetan “beyond description” is an adjective only for the true nature of the jinas. In Chinese, it works both as a noun and an adjective.

n.383The prose and verse from this point down to “Young Candraprabha adorned the road with many different precious arrangements” 10.­30 do not appear in the Chinese, apart from the one prose sentence in which Candraprabha requests the Buddha to come to his home. There is somewhat more in the Gilgit manuscript than in the Chinese.

n.384The Roman numerals indicate verses that are not contained in the Gilgit manuscript and therefore are not in the Vaidya edition, but are given in footnotes in the Dutt edition of the Gilgit manuscript.

n.385The commentary states that this means that anything the samādhi is focused upon will be overcome.

n.386The commentary states that this means that whatever is desired will appear from space.

n.387The commentary states that this means that it is invulnerable to all distractions.

n.388The commentary states that this means that one can go miraculously anywhere at the speed of thought.

n.389The commentary states that this means that all forms can be perceived.

n.390The commentary states that this means that one can directly perceive the tathāgatas in infinite realms.

n.391The commentary states that this means the consecration of the perfection of wisdom, which has the direct perception of the essence of all emptiness.

n.392The usual traditional list is of eight liberations, but as in the Gaṇḍavyūhasūtra, this term can be used for any method that brings liberation.

n.393According to the commentary, these four enemies are the four māras: the māra of the kleśas, the māra of death, the divine māra (of distracting pleasures), and the māra of the aggregates (of the mind and body).

n.394Literally deva , and translated into Tibetan as lha, but this was a term of respect used for kings, as the equivalent of “Your Majesty,” and so on. It is not meant to be taken literally as “a deity.”

n.395According to the Sanskrit toraṇa. Translated into Tibetan as rta babs.

n.396Synonymous with agallochum and aloeswood. A dark resin in the heartwood of certain tropical trees.

n.397According to the Sanskrit. Basically the same as damaru. Translated into Tibetan as mkhar rnga.

n.398The text gives both the Sanskrit tuṇava and the Tibetan translation pi wang rgyud gcig pa.

n.399A kettle drum played horizontally, wider in the middle with the skin at both ends, played by the hands. One drumhead is smaller than the other. It is a South Indian drum, and maintains the rhythm in Karnataka music.

n.400Tibetan rnga mu kun da. Also called rnga zlum (“round drum”). From its representation in a sculpture of a mukunda drummer, it appears to be a much smaller version of the mṛḍaṅga drum, held in the middle with one hand with one end beaten by the other hand.

n.401Tibetan rdza rnga chen po (“large kettle drum”). It is a kettle drum played horizontally. Unlike the mṛdaṅga, one half of the body of the drum is wider than the other. The Sanskrit for the list of instruments is in Dutt (116). There the spelling is muruja.

n.402Considered the purest form of gold, found in the rivers, and believed to have come from a legendary site beyond the Himalayas.

n.403The Chinese account of this event resumes here, after a few introductory sentences. The Gilgit also omits all the preceding passage, apart from the description of Candraprabha taking leave of the Buddha and returning home.

n.404From the Sanskrit svādanīya (“tasty,” “flavorful”). The Tibetan translates as a noun: myang ba.

n.405According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit niryūha can also mean “a pinnacle” or “turret.”

n.406According to the Tibetan ba gam, which is an ornamental roof. The Sanskrit pañjara principally means “a cage,” and therefore could be “railings.”

n.407Tibetan: skar khung dra ba ris (“window-net pattern”). Sanskrit jāla (“net”), though jālaka does mean “lattice-window.”

n.408Sanskrit: ardhacandra. Tibetan: zla ba kham pa. This appears to have been a prominent part of a building’s design.

n.409None of the verses with Roman numerals appear in the Gilgit or the Chinese.

n.410According to the Sanskrit. Absent in the Tibetan, perhaps as a result of a scribal omission in the Sanskrit manuscript, or an omission in translation, as the next name is Durabhisambhava.

n.411The commentary states that this is on the south side of the city. Rājagṛha is well known for its natural hot springs. This passage does not appear in the Chinese from “accompanied by many adorned horses” up to this point.

n.412From this point until Candraprabha speaks does not appear in the Chinese.

n.413The following seven verses and two lines of prose do not appear in the Chinese or the Gilgit manuscript.

n.414According to most Kangyurs: zan. Degé: bran.

n.415According to the Narthang, Cone, and Degé: ’dong. Pedurma: ’dod.

n.416“After speaking these lines” does not appear in the Gilgit or the Chinese.

n.417“kumbhāṇḍas, pretas, pūtanas” does not appear in the Gilgit.

n.418Literally “ten million [times] a hundred thousand million [times] a hundred thousand, which adds up to “a hundred thousand quintillion.” The Chinese has 百千萬億那由他 (bai qian wan yi na yu ta), “one thousand million” (yi’ nayuta).

n.419Also known in the past as “Indian blue jay.”

n.420According to the Gilgit Sanskrit. Absent in the Tibetan, presumably accidentally.

n.421Also called “red avadavats,” “strawberry finches,” and “kalavinka sparrows.” Dictionaries have erroneously identified them as cuckoos; kalaviṅka birds outside India have evolved into a mythical half-human bird. The avadavat is a significant bird in the Ganges plain and is renowned for its beautiful song.

n.422The birds do not appear in Gilgit manuscript. The following prose and verses do not appear in the Chinese.

n.423From the Sanskrit muṣala. Yongle, Lithang, Peking Narthang, Cone, and Lhasa: rdung ’dzin. Degé: gtun ’dzin. Musala here refers to a large pestle, about three feet long, which is also used as a weapon, like a mace, by a deity such as a yakṣa who hurls it at an enemy.

n.424These are the four traditional divisions of the army: cavalry, elephants, chariots, and infantry. These are also the basis for the game of chess, which originated in India.

n.425These do not appear in the Gilgit manuscript.

n.426The Gilgit manuscript fragment has tilaka[ba]kula with what appears to be an omission of the syllable ba (sesame flowers, medlar flowers).

n.427This prose section does not appear in the Gilgit, but is present in the Shastri and Hodgson (Dutt p. 121).

n.428In the BHS verse their names are given as Avalokitu and Sthāmu.

n.429In the BHS verse this name is shortened to Amogha.

n.430In the verse this is given in the short form, “Ratna.” The commentary states that this is another name for Ratnapāṇi, a bodhisattva who appears in Mahāyāna sūtras.

n.431The BHS verse uses this synonym for Subāhu.

n.432In the BHS verse his name is given as Durabhisambhavu.

n.433In the BHS verse the name is shortened to Vīra.

n.434According to the BHS jina­pādānubaddha. The Tibetan could be interpreted as just meaning “attendants.”

n.435Synonym for Maitreya. In the BHS verse the form is Matraku.

n.436The Tibetan erroneously translates the kāya in bhāvitakāya as lus (body).

n.437Here the Tibetan has three lines of verse, where the Sanskrit has four. The BHS verse is: “He is one who has cultivated love, rejoicing, and equanimity, / He is a great being who has developed compassion, / And through the qualities of the teaching of the Dharma / He has infinite understanding of the qualities of the Lord of jinas.” The Tibetan translation therefore has the last line of each verse being the first line of the following verse, as compared to the Sanskrit. In addition, the last three lines of the final śloka in Sanskrit are not present in the Tibetan.

n.438According to the BHS. The Tibetan, zhabs ’bring byed, could be interpreted as “attended to.”

n.439According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit: “those humans.”

n.440In the verse, for the sake of the meter, the name is given as Mañjuśirī.

n.441According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan appears to mean “many thousands of millions of Mañjuśrīs.”

n.442According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit: “Who have accomplished bodies with the qualities of superior powers.” The Tibetan may have been translating śura instead of śarira.

n.443The Sanskrit here uses the synonym Śārisuta for Śāriputra.

n.444The Sanskrit here is “Maudgal,” which is the name shortened for the verse.

n.445BHS: Bhradrikurāja. Usually referred to simply as “Bhadrika.”

n.446In the BHS verse the name is given as Kauñciku. This may be Katyayāna (also known as Kaccāyana or Kaccāna), the only one of the Buddha’s ten principal students not to appear in this list.

n.447In the BHS verse the name is given as Koṣṭhilu.

n.448According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan has stong du, which appears to be a scribal error for stong dgu.

n.449According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit also has vrata (“vows of discipline”), which would have been translated into Tibetan as brtul zhugs.

n.450According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit: “And had mastered the recitation of curses and beneficial incantations.”

n.451According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit: Kārttika, the twelfth month of the Indian year, named after the Pleiades constellation, as the full moon appears near that constellation. In the Western calendar it is in October / November. In India, this is the time after the monsoon has ended and the sky is at its clearest.

n.452The Sanskrit uses the synonym dānava instead of asura .

n.453The Tibetan concludes here. The Sanskrit has the final line of that verse being the first of a four-line verse: “Scattered excellent flowers and supreme incense, / And an abundant variety of sandalwoods. / They circumambulated the Instructor, / And bowed down to the enlightened one.”

n.454The Chinese account of this event resumes again. This paragraph is brief in the Gilgit and Chinese.

n.455According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit: ṛṣabha-gaṇa, “herds of bulls.” Chinese: “a hundred thousand.”

n.456Chinese: “kings of bulls.”

n.457According to the Sanskrit dvirada and the Chinese. The Tibetan translates both “bull” and “elephant” with glang.

n.458The BHS has parihāraka, equivalent to the Sanskrit parihaṭaka, which can mean “anklet” or “bracelet.” “Anklet” is chosen here, as the others follow. The Tibetan translates this and the following ornament identically as gdu bu.

n.459From the Sanskrit kaṭaka.

n.460According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit: ambarakusumān (“cloth and flowers”).

n.461According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit: maṇisūtra (“strings of jewels”).

n.462According to the Tibetan mtsho bya (“lake birds”). The Sanskrit has haṃsa-krauñca (“ducks / geese and cranes”).

n.463The last half of this verse in the Sanskrit does not appear in the Tibetan. The entire verse does not appear in the Chinese. In the Gilgit and Shastri the second half is: “They were free from the net of fear, evil, and ignorance / And wished to bow down before the Sugata.” Hodgson has “stains” (mala) instead of “fear” (bhaya).

n.464The Chinese has “the body of the Buddha with the ten strengths.”

n.465Literally, a hundred-thousand ten-million.

n.466Chinese: “The celestial palaces became empty, as devas had come to see the Buddha.”

n.467According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit: lokanātha (“Lord of the World”). Chinese: “the Buddha, the Lord with the ten strengths.”

n.468This verse is absent in the Chinese.

n.469The main road connecting towns.

n.470Literally “principal and intermediate directions.” Chinese: “ten directions.”

n.471This verse is in the Gilgit, Shastri, and Hodgson, but does not appear in the Tibetan or the Chinese.

n.472This verse does not appear in the Chinese.

n.473This verse does not appear in the Chinese, but there is an alternative verse that relates how joy arose in those who saw the Buddha and that they wondered when they, too, could make supreme offerings.

n.474According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit does not have “in saṃsāra.” Chinese: “difficult to encounter for a long time,” 久遠難值遇 (jiu yuan nan zhi yu).

n.475According to the Sanskrit mahānubhāva and most Kangyurs. The Degé has thub chen (“great muni / sage”). The Chinese has 大比丘眾 (da bi qiu zhong), from the Sanskrit bhikṣu-saṃgha.

n.476According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit and Chinese: “precious jewels.” (BHS maṇiratana = Sanskrit maṇiratna.)

n.477The Sanskrit has Śubhamarutāḥ. Maruta is a synonym for deva , and Śubha is a shorter form for the name of the Parī­ttaśubha paradise.

n.478The Sanskrit has the synonym “Aparimitaśubha.”

n.479The Chinese has an additional verse about other devas coming to see the Lord of the World.

n.480This refers to the Mahābrahma paradise, where Brahmā resides, and is the highest of the three deva realms that are the realms of the first dhyāna in the form realm.

n.481Both the Sanskrit and Tibetan give here the shortened form of the name of this realm: Paranirmita; gzhan ’phrul. Chinese: 他化天 (ta hua tian), a shortened form too.

n.482The Sanskrit gives a shortened form tridaśa (thirty) instead of the usual Trāyastriṃśa (“thirty-three”). The Tibetan and Chinese, however, translate as thirty-three.

n.483This first line is conjoined into Verse 53 in the Chinese; the rest is omitted.

n.484It is Virūpākṣa that is traditionally said to be the lord over the nāgas. Nevertheless, this may reflect an earlier variant tradition. Not mentioned in the Chinese.

n.485According to the Tibetan and Chinese. The Sanskrit omits this and instead has “Also countless Māladhāra devas.”

n.486This verse is in the Gilgit manuscript but not present in the Chinese.

n.487This verse and the following two do not appear in the Gilgit manuscript or the Chinese. They are present in the Shastri and Hodgson. The Tibetan corresponds with the Hodgson version of the verses.

n.488According to the Tibetan gdengs ka can and the Mahāvyutpatti. Gilgit: Bhogaka.

n.489This verse is not present in the Gilgit or the Chinese.

n.490According to the Sanskrit, which is in the singular. The Chinese assumes the plural, referring to all the previous nāga kings.

n.491The Sanskrit name is kept in both the English and Chinese translation because it is the origin of the nāga’s name.

n.492According to the Sanskrit, which has the adjective “little,” and also the account in the Vinaya, which states that as a monk in the time of Buddha Kāśyapa he cut down the thorny bush at the entrance of his cave because it always snagged his robes. Cutting down bushes or even grass is contrary to the bhikṣu rules. Therefore he was reborn as a nāga with a tree growing out of his head. This caused him pain whenever the wind blew. In Chinese the word 小 (xiao), as an adjective, means “little,” as in the Sanskrit. As a verb it means “belittle” or “make something small.” The main verb used is 壞 (huai), i.e., “to destroy or damage,” rather than “to cut down.” These two verbs together, 壞小 (huai xiao), could be interpreted as “cutting the bush to make it small,” or “cutting the bush in contempt.”

n.493This verse is considerably different in the Chinese.

n.494In terms of early Mahāyāna cosmology, “the king of Alakavatī” is Kubera, king of the yakṣas. In the tantric tradition, Alakavatī is the realm of Vajrapāṇi.

n.495This is the first of eight verses that in the Chinese are reduced to three verses listing names.

n.496According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan here translates the names, earlier translated as lngas rtsen and shā kya ’phel, as dus ’phel lnga po, which appears to indicate a corruption in the Sanskrit text that was used for the translation, resulting in kālavṛddho (“time increase”), which would match dus ’phel (“time increase”).

n.497This verse and the following verses are absent in the Chinese.

n.498This name seems to appear twice, once in transliteration and once in translation in another line: mi’u thung (dwarf).

n.499According to the Sanskrit nadi and the Chinese 河 (he). The Tibetan ’bab chu could have been interpreted to mean “waterfall.”

n.500According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit: “rejoiced at the Jina’s entry.” The line order follows the Sanskrit. The last two lines are not present in the Chinese.

n.501Chinese: “When the Buddha and others had concluded their meals, put down their alms bowls, and washed their hands…”

n.502The Tibetan ras bcos bu (literally, “processed cotton”) is said in Tibetan-English dictionaries to mean “calico.” The Sanskrit has “divine duṣya cloths.” Duṣya in Sanskrit can mean “cotton” and “calico.” Calico was traditionally made in Karnataka, but was always the cheapest cloth, and therefore it is unlikely that it would have that meaning here. Dūṣya is probably a Sanskritization of a Middle Indic word such as the Pali dussa, which means “woven cloth.” In ancient India, cloth was usually made of cotton, but as the cloth referred to here is extremely expensive it may literally mean “divine cotton,” or alternatively, “silk,” which at that time in ancient India could only be imported from China and was very expensive.

n.503Only the number is given. In the Sanskrit the number is ninety-nine trillion. In the Chinese it is ten thousand. It is assumed that the reader will know this refers to silver coins, the raupya (the origin of the present day rupee), which was also tied to the value of silver until the end of the nineteenth century.

n.504The following verses are not in the Gilgit, Sanskrit, or Chinese, but are in the Shastri and Hodgson manuscripts.

n.505According to the Sanskrit kroṣṭaka. The Tibetan translates this as wa (“fox”), and the Chinese also translates it as “fox,” as the jackal is not native to China. However, the analogy is clearly concerning the rivalry between lions and jackals, the latter generally eating what the lions leave. The Chinese has “lion’s roar” rather than “lion.”

n.506The Sanskrit uses the same word as in the first line, svabhāva, translated in the first line as rang bzhin. In this second line svabhāva is translated into Tibetan as ngo bo nyid instead of rang bzhin (“nature”), and prakṛti (which can also mean “character” as well as “nature”) is translated as rang bzhin.

n.507The Tibetan translates prakṛti as rang bzhin, which in the first line had been used to translate svabhāva.

n.508In the Sanskrit but absent in the Tibetan is vipāka­lakṣaṇānārambhaṇa­lakṣaṇān.

n.509This is repeating with different words what is said in verse 27 of chapter 2. Here prabhāṣa is equivalent to pratibhāṇa (“confident eloquence”) in that verse. The Tibetan has here byang chub (“enlightenment”), possibly from a corruption of bhoti (“will be”) to bodhi (“enlightenment”) in the manuscript it was translated from. The Chinese version is slightly different: 若說如是法, 菩薩了知者, 彼得無愛辯, 說億修多羅 (ruo shuo ru shi fa, pu sa liao zhi zhe, bi de wu ai bian, shuo yi xiu duo luo). The equivalent of pratibhāṇa is used.

n.510The Tibetan sngon pa’i mtha’ from the Sanskrit pūrvāntaṃ means “the past.” The commentary explains this as knowing that phenomena have no past or future. However, this may be the result of an early corruption in the text, perhaps of prakṛtatvaṃ or similar, as the Chinese translates it more cogently as “they know the nature of the sound,” and so on.

n.511According to the Tibetan and Sanskrit. The Chinese has “nature.”

n.512The Sanskrit has hriyate (“ashamed”). The Tibetan ’phrogs appears to have translated from something like hāryate (“taken away”). Chinese: 染 (ran), (“polluted / afflicted”).

n.513According to the Sanskrit and Tibetan. The Chinese has “nature.”

n.514According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan omits “on birth.”

n.515According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan appears to have translated from a manuscript in which duḥkhaṃ had been corrupted to dharmaṃ, with the resulting meaning “cessation of phenomena.”

n.516Literally, buddhaputra (“sons of the buddhas”).

n.517Sanskrit: mitrabhadra. This is synonymous with kalyāṇamitra .

n.518According to the Tibetan srin po. Sanskrit: niśācarā, a synonym for rākṣasa .

n.519According to the Tibetan and the Chinese 柔何處眾演說法 (rou he chu zhong yan shuo fa). Vaidya Sanskrit: paryāyasūtrato, “teaches the Dharma according to the way of the sūtra.”

n.520According to the Sanskrit and Chinese. The Tibetan appears to say, “they teach the buddhas.”

n.521According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit and Chinese: “always skilled.”

n.522According to the Tibetan and Dutt’s Gilgit vipāka (ripening). The Shastri and Gilgit have vibhakti (“different categories”) and the Hodgson has the corruption virakti instead of vipāka. Chinese: 為人顯示因果理 (wei ren xian shi yin guo), “they reveal to others the principle / law of cause and results.”

n.523According to the Tibetan and Dutt’s Gilgit. The Vaidya Sanskrit has sbhṛti (“no meaning”) instead of smṛti (“memory”). The Chinese does not have “pure.”

n.524Unusually here nāga has been translated not just as klu but as klu ’brug, adding the syllable for “dragon.” Chinese: “dragon.”

n.525All four lines of this verse begin with vipula (“vast”), though this is not reflected in the Tibetan translation. There the word is translated differently in each line, but here an attempt has been made to keep the repetition in English.

n.526Chinese: 廣大 (guang da), “vast,” appears in the first and third line only.

n.527According to the Sanskrit rāṣṭra, translated into Tibetan as grong, which could mean “village,” “town,” or “city.” Chinese: “of the world” 世間.

n.528The name is in a BHS form: Maitraka.

n.529According to the Sanskrit. The order of the lines in the Tibetan translation is rather awkward, and it appears that the second and third lines have changed place. Rearranged they would be: “Similarly Buddha Amitāyus also / Has taught many kinds of benefits: / ‘All who wish (’dod) for my Sukhāvatī / Will go to Abhirati and see Buddha Akṣobhya.’ The Chinese does not include the name “Abhirati.”

n.530This last verse appears to be spoken by Candraprabha in the Sanskrit and Tibetan. In the Chinese, however, these are the words of the Buddha: “Now I have explained such innumerable benefits and merits / qualities. Those who wish to attain merits / qualities similar to mine should uphold this sūtra during the time of degeneration.”

n.531From the Sanskrit prabhāvyate. The Tibetan appears to have translated from a manuscript with something like pravbhidyate or prabhedyate (“divide,” “categorize”).

n.532According to the Sanskrit, the commentary, and the Chinese. The Tibetan translates as “the nature of the mind is without form,” presumably translating from svabhāvam arūpyam as a corruption of niḥsvabhāvam arūpyam.

n.533The Chinese adds “and cannot be seen.”

n.534According to the BHS and the Chinese. The Tibetan has either translated from a corruption in a manuscript from akṣara-vibhāvita-jñāna to akṣaya-vibhāvita-jñāna (“letters” being changed into “indestructible, unending”) or chosen akṣara’s alternative meaning, “imperishable.” The BHS meaning of vibhāva can be “to be free of.” However, vibhāva can be translated into Tibetan as “meditation” as well as “non-existing,” and so on. Therefore the Tibetan has, “They meditate on unending wisdom,” which does not appear to fit the context.

n.535According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan and Chinese omit “the words.”

n.536According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan and Chinese omit “the words.”

n.537According to the Sanskrit and Chinese. The Tibetan omits “the knowledge.”

n.538According to the Sanskrit karmakṛtāyāḥ. The Tibetan yongs su sbyang ba could be translated as “completely purified.” The Chinese omits “who created the karma (or completely purified) in previous lifetimes.”

n.539According to the Tibetan ’khyil ba and the Sanskrit avartāyāḥ, though it could also be translated as “repetition of dharāṇīs.”

n.540The commentary states that here “retention” ( dhāraṇī ) is equivalent to wisdom. The reference to retentions does not appear in the Chinese.

n.541According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan has the list of qualities as all being attainments. The commentary has “unobscured patience.” The Chinese 得修無障法忍 (de xiu wu zhang fa ren) can be interpreted as “became capable of practicing unobscured patience.”

n.542This verse is very different in the Chinese.

n.543According to the Sanskrit. Tibetan has only “They know all phenomena.”

n.544This verse is very different in the Chinese.

n.545According to the Tibetan, presumably translating from śīlaṃ, though the Sanskrit has śikṣāṃ (“learning,” “study”).

n.546Chinese: “They would rather forsake their own life than violate the teaching of the tathāgatas.”

n.547The Sanskrit manasikāra and the Tibetan yid la byed pa can mean, according to context, “fixed attention,” “concentration,” “focused reflection,” etc. The commentary states that the samādhi being devoid of such factors is in relation to mind and thoughts, subject and object, action and object, and so on. The negative of the term (amanasikāra, yid la mi byed pa) was later adapted into the mahāmudrā tradition.

n.548The BHS term raṇā is synonymous with kleśa , and both are translated into Tibetan as nyon mongs.

n.549In the Chinese, this line uses an unusual expression in conjunction with equality: 平等非嶮地 (ping deng fei xian di). 平等 (ping deng) is “equality,” 非 (fei) “not,” 嶮地 (xian) is the same as 險 and means “steep, lofty, precipitous,” and 地 (di) is “land, level, bhūmi.” The term samādhi does not appear.

n.550According to the Sanskrit: na… asti. The commentary and various Kangyurs, including the Degé, have yod med. The Pedurma has yong med.

n.551According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit and Chinese: “grasping.”

n.552According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit and Chinese: “grasping.”

n.553According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit and Chinese: “without attachment.”

n.554According to the Sanskrit spṛśi. Tibetan: dran pa, translated from a corruption of spṛśi to smrti (“mindfulness” without pride).

n.555According to the Tibetan, Sanskrit, and Chinese: “is the noble path.”

n.556According to the Sanskrit śantibhūmi. The Tibetan has “level of buddhahood,” perhaps translating from buddhabhūmi.

n.557According to the Tibetan, Sanskrit, and Chinese: “meditation and wisdom.”

n.558According to the Sanskrit and the commentary. The Tibetan has “peace” instead of “meditation.”

n.559Some of the lines of this verse have been exchanged with lines from the subsequent verse for a clearer reading.

n.560In the Chinese, the order of this and the preceding verse is reversed.

n.561According to the Sanskrit and the Kangyurs that have the genitive gi. The Degé has the instrumental gis.

n.562From the Sanskrit dharmadhātumaya, and as in the Chinese. The Tibetan may be translated from a manuscript that read dharmadhātunaya: “the way of the essence of phenomena.”

n.563According to the Tibetan mya ngan. The BHS has aṅgana (“blemish,” “impurity,” “evil”). The Chinese 惱 agrees with the BHS.

n.564According to the Tibetan and Sanskrit. The Chinese has “It cannot be understood through words. This is because phenomena do not have characteristics.” This is also a legitimate translation if it is assumed that in sarvadharmāṇa lakṣaṇam the latter word is actually alakṣaṇam.

n.565According to the Sanskrit and most Kangyurs. The Degé has dga’ (“joy”).

n.566The Chinese appears to mean, “through language only knowledge is gained.”

n.567The Degé has erroneously repeated the first two lines of the last verse at the beginning of this penultimate verse, making it into six lines.

n.568There is a play of words here on saṃpāra (“the further side”) and the BHS pārami (“perfection”). The Chinese translates as “the other side” and translates the verse as “a command to the listener.”

n.569Chinese: “Then the youth Candraprabha said these words to the Bhagavān.”

n.570According to the Tibetan spobs. The Sanskrit pratibhāti could also mean “elucidates this for me.”

n.571Chinese: “tormented by sickness, old age, and death.”

n.572According to the Tibetan dpa’ bo, which appears to have translated from a manuscript that had vīra instead of the Sanskrit vīrye, “with diligence.” Chinese: 善哉, the most common translation of Sanskrit sādhu, (“holy man,” “saint”).

n.573According to the Sanskrit krudhyase. The Tibetan translates as ’khrugs, which primarily has the meaning of “disturbed.” According to the Mahāvyuttpati this would be a translation of kṣubhyase, meaning “disturbed.” Therefore this may be a translation from a scribal corruption in the Sanskrit.

n.574According to the Sanskrit and Chinese. The Tibetan has “maintain various views.”

n.575According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan appears to make this line the voice of devas that are accompanying the music.

n.576According to the Sanskrit kalaviṅka, translated into Tibetan here as “cuckoo,” even though earlier they were listed separately where kalaviṅka was simply transliterated. The Chinese transliterates as 迦陵頻伽. The avadavat was unknown in Tibet while the cuckoo was very familiar. However, the avadavat is a bird known in North India for its beautiful song.

n.577The Sanskrit is literally “twice born,” referring to first the egg being laid and then the hatching.

n.578According to the Tibetan, the Gilgit manuscript, and the Chinese. The later Sanskrit manuscripts from Nepal (the Shastri and Hodgson manuscripts) have here the line about musical instruments‍—conches, drums, and so on‍—that will occur in the next verse in this version. There are two verses in the Tibetan and Gilgit version compared to one in the later Sanskrit manuscripts and the Chinese.

n.579The Tibetan here translates paṭaha as rdza rnga, which is usually the translation for the mṛḍaṅga drum.

n.580The Tibetan translation here (rnga bo che) does not make a very strong distinction between the bherī and the earlier muraja drum (rdza rnga chen po). The Chinese has simply “drums” and does not differentiate the two kinds, but also has “three-stringed lutes, lutes, and flutes.”

n.581This verse is in the Gilgit manuscript and the Tibetan. It does not appear in the later Sanskrit versions. In the Chinese this is a continuation of the previous verse without the line about the deva maidens.

n.582In the Chinese, this verse is preceded by a verse describing how the songs and music played by the king of the kinnaras cannot compare to the Buddha’s speech. This verse is not found in the Tibetan or Sanskrit.

n.583In the Sanskrit the synonym sura is used.

n.584In the Sanskrit the synonym dānu is used. In the Chinese both deva and dānu were translated by the same term.

n.585According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan translates it as mkhar rnga (“gong”).

n.586According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan has just rnga (“drums”).

n.587Unidentified Indian musical instrument. It appears in two lists of instruments in the Lalita­vistara­sūtra (see The Play in Full 15.39 and 15.67) with a stringed instrument preceding and following it, but some recent Tibetan-English dictionaries have “cymbals.”

n.588According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit appears to be still describing the music: “delightful, beautiful, and divine.”

n.589Literally, marutas and apsarases .

n.590This verse does not appear in the Chinese.

n.591This verse does not appear in the Chinese.

n.592Literally, “Lord of the Gods,” another name for Indra / Śakra.

n.593According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit has “by the Buddha’s light rays.” The Chinese has “one light ray emitted by the Buddha.”

n.594According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit: “unequaled.”

n.595According to the Tibetan and close to the version in Dutt’s “manuscript A” (the Shastri manuscript). Chinese: “requests the Buddha to be compassionate.”

n.596The Chinese has an extra verse here, requesting a prophecy, which does not appear in the Tibetan or the Sanskrit.

n.597The Chinese has different epithets.

n.598From the first half of the Sanskrit compound ratha-pattiya; the meaning of the second half is obscure, as is the Tibetan translation: rta rkang thang. The commentary glosses it as shing rta mchog (“perfect chariots”).

n.599According to the Tibetan. “Pearls” does not appear in the Sanskrit, but instead, “male and female slaves” (dāsadāsi). The Chinese has “male and female slaves, jewels, pearls, gold, cows, and sheep.”

n.600The commentary states that these lotuses appear as seats for the bodhisattvas.

n.601Chinese: “innumerable.”

n.602According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan has rnga (“drums”) and the Chinese also just has “drums.”

n.603According to the Tibetan mkhar rnga. Sanskrit: tunava (“flutes”). Chinese: 鐃, similar to “cymbals.”

n.604From the Sanskrit krauñca. Tibetan: khrung khrung. According to the Mahāvyutpatti, the Tibetan for krauñca is krung krung. See Julia Leslie, A Bird Bereaved: The identity and significance of Vālmīki’s krauñca, for the identification of this bird. Present Sanskrit dictionaries state it is a curlew. However, it is specifically the Sarus crane, which in Sanskrit is also called the sārasa krauñca, which can also be confusing because sārasa, as in this sūtra, is the word for “swan.”

n.605Chinese: 拘翅 (jue chi), 頻迦 (pin jia), 鵞鶴 (er he). The first two are from the pronunciation of the Sanskrit, and the third is a Chinese name, referring to one kind of crane.

n.606According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit: “tender ones.” Chinese: “tamed and gentle ones.”

n.607According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan could have been interpreted as “speak to Mañjughoṣa,” except for the adverbial particle su. Chinese: 和潤語, “harmonious and gentle speech.”

n.608Literally in Sanskrit, “sound of the clouds.” Chinese: “thunder” 雷霆.

n.609Although translated earlier in the text as bzhad (in accord with the Mahāvyutpatti), the Tibetan here simply transliterated sārasa (sa ra sa).

n.610According to the Tibetan. Vaidya Sanskrit: “You are sublime because of the results of good actions.”

n.611From the Sanskrit jīvaṃjīva (Tibetan: shang shang te’u). According to the Mahesh Sharma (141), jīvjīva is a pheasant, and jīvaṃjīva (as in Monier-Williams) is the chukar partridge (Alectoris chukar, also known as the Greek partridge). In later times, in China and Tibet this became a legendary half-human bird, or a two-headed bird. The Chinese transliterates: 命命鳥.

n.612This verse does not appear in the Chinese.

n.613The Chinese has 47 consecutive verses: the first 16 verses are in chapter 15 of the Tibetan-Sanskrit version and the remaining 31 verses are in chapter 16.

n.614According to the Sanskrit, and the Degé, Lithang, Narthang, and Lhasa Kangyurs: dpang. The Pedurma has dbang (“power”).

n.615This verse does not appear in the Chinese.

n.616According to the Sanskrit aviruddha, and the Chinese 不為他壞不違他.

n.617Sanskrit: ogha. A term also found in the Pali tradition, it refers to ignorance, desire, and so on. Translated in the Chinese as its implied meaning.

n.618Sanskrit: grantha. A term also found in the Pali tradition (gantha), it refers to the knots that bind one to existence. Chinese: “knots.”

n.619According to the Sanskrit tṛṣṇa. The Tibetan has srid pa (“existence”) in error for sred pa.

n.620The prose section that begins this chapter does not appear in the Chinese.

n.621According to the Sanskrit, the Tibetan klag, and the Chinese. Degé: lhogs.

n.622According to the commentary (’dod pa can) and the Sanskrit lubdha, which can also mean “confused,” hence the Tibetan translation brkam (“scattered”).

n.623Chinese: 放逸 (“careless”), 毀禁 (“do not follow precepts”), and 多慳吝 (“covetous”).

n.624According to the commentary, the Sanskrit, and the Chinese. The Tibetan has “attached to towns.”

n.625Chinese: “slander.”

n.626A euphemism for sexual activity. The Chinese is less specific in its descriptions.

n.627According to the Sanskrit parakumārī and the Tibetan gzhan gyi bu mo (“the girls of others”). Chinese: 童女 “girls” or “virgins.”

n.628Sanskrit: “path of the mendicant.”

n.629In the Chinese this verse is preceded by “one describing deviations from the path of the mendicant.”

n.630According to dhenu in the Sanskrit and gzho in the Mahāvyutpatti. The Tibetan Kangyurs have gzhon and bzhon in error for gzho or bzho.

n.631According to the Tibetan. In the Sanskrit and Chinese it could mean “among a hundred thousand.”

n.632According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit has, “They become intoxicated.”

n.633Chinese: 若得虛名自欣慶 (ruo de xu ming zi xin qing), “if they gain false reputation and become overjoyed.”

n.634This verse does not appear in the Chinese.

n.635This verse does not appear in the Chinese.

n.636According to the Tibetan, Chinese, and the Shastri and Hodgson manuscripts. The Dutt and Vaidya have vihāru, “play with each other.”

n.637This entire opening section about Maitreya and his miraculous activities does not appear in the Gilgit manuscript and therefore not in the Vaidya either. The Tibetan follows the version in the Hodgson manuscript.

n.638According to the Sanskrit, where tathāgata is clearly in the vocative and the verb “to go” is in the first-person singular.

n.639According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit: “Lamp of the three worlds.”

n.640There is a play on words here as “conquered the māras” is jitamārā, and Maitreya’s alternative name is “Ajita.”

n.641The first part of this chapter up to this point does not appear in the Gilgit or the Chinese.

n.642This sentence does not appear in the Gilgit or the Chinese.

n.643“Through the gateway of peace” does not appear in the Gilgit or the Chinese.

n.644“Kneeling on his right knee, with palms placed together, bowed toward the Bhagavān” does not appear in Gilgit or the Chinese.

n.645The Chinese gives the full name of the samādhi.

n.646The Chinese gives the full name of the samādhi.

n.647The Sanskrit has an additional quality at this point: “wish to leave them.”

n.648The Sanskrit has an additional quality at this point: “have no endurance for them.”

n.649Chinese: 深怖三界起驚畏心 (shen bu san jie qi jing wei xin), “they are deeply terrified of the three realms and develop a fearful mind”; 厭離三界起不染心 (yan li san jie qi bu ran xin), “they are determined to leave the three realms and develop the aspiration to be free from defilements”; 不著三界起逼惱心 (bu zhuo san jie qi bi nao xin), “they are not attached to the three realms and develop the aspiration to overcome suffering.”

n.650The Chinese omits part of these two sentences, apparently in error, resulting in: “If they accomplish this, they will attain this samādhi” and gives the full name of the samādhi.

n.651According to the Tibetan and Sanskrit. Chinese: “are widely learned.”

n.652According to the Tibetan. In the Sanskrit and Chinese this is phrased as a question.

n.653According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit has “proved,” “tried.” The Chinese has “trained in.”

n.654According to the Sanskrit (Hodgson and Shastri manuscripts). Absent in the Tibetan.

n.655According to the Tibetan and all Sanskrit. This paragraph does not appear in the Chinese.

n.656According to the Sanskrit and Tibetan. The Chinese has one yi 一憶 (yi yi), which can mean 100,000, one million, or ten million in various Buddhist scriptures.

n.657According to the Sanskrit and most Kangyurs. The Degé has mi in error for me.

n.658According to the Tibetan bye ba. The Sanskrit has ṣaḍvarṣakoṭyaḥ: “sixty times ten million,” i.e., six hundred million.

n.659According to the Tibetan nyin zhag. The Sanskrit has rātrimdivā (“day and night”).

n.660According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit has “thirty thousand years.”

n.661The Chinese lists twelve buddhas in twelve verses up to this point.

n.662According to the Tibetan. The Nepalese manuscripts appear to divide this into two names, and the Gilgit certainly does: brahmā ca devas tathā.

n.663According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit: Svara­brahma­datta.

n.664According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan has Brahmaghoṣa (tshangs pa’i dbyangs).

n.665According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit appears to be two names.

n.666Much of this verse repeats the names from the preceding verse, and there may have been a corruption. It is possible that they were meant to be variations of the same compounds but with a group beginning with Dānta, followed by a group beginning with Śānta. This would give: “Dāntottara, Dānta, Sudāntacitta, / Sudānta, Dāntendriya, Dāntamānasa, / Dāntottara, Dāntaśirin, Pradānta, / Dāntīyapāraṃgata and Dāntaśūra, [23] Śantottara, Śānta, Suśāntacitta, / Suśānta, Śāntendriya, Śāntamānasa, / Śāntottara, Śānta­śriya­jvalanta, / Śāntapraśānteśvara, Śāntiśūra. [24]”

n.667According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan here translates parivarta as le’u (“chapter”) and omits nirhāra. This paragraph is absent in the Chinese.

n.668According to the Sanskrit viśārada. Tibetan: “very great fame” (grags pa shin tu che). Absent from the Chinese.

n.669The last line of this verse is in the next verse in the Chinese version.

n.670According to the Tibetan and Chinese. Sanskrit: “forsaken the world in all their words.”

n.671According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan has, literally, “He renounced the earth for accomplishing food,” which differs from all Sanskrit versions. In the Tibetan rendering, nirhāra is translated as sgrub pa (“accomplish”), though its other meanings are “to extract, remove, take, acquire, accumulate, or store,” which seems more appropriate here for food; and sthapetva (“established in”) as bor ba (“renounce”). The Chinese has “remained in peace and practiced great diligence.”

n.672According to the BHS vasthitu. The Tibetan apparently translates as “being upright, standing” (’greng).

n.673Literally, “elephant-king.”

n.674The order of this and the previous verse is reversed in the Chinese.

n.675According to the Sanskrit śānti. The Tibetan has bzhi (“four”) in error for zhi (“peace”).

n.676The Chinese has an additional line: 於諸白法常無厭 (yu zhu bai fa chang wu yan), “never tired of engaging in virtuous actions [white dharmas].”

n.677The Tibetan ’chad could mean “to teach” or “to explain,” as well as “to cut through, destroy.” The latter meaning is supported by the Sanskrit uccheda and the Chinese 斷 (duan).

n.678Chinese: “termination of the speech (or views) of ordinary people.”

n.679The Chinese has an additional verse at this point concerning not violating precepts and not having attachment to families.

n.680According to the BHS niḥsṛti. The Tibetan translates as ’byung ba.

n.681This verse does not appear in the Chinese.

n.682According to the Sanskrit sadā. The Tibetan and Chinese use synonyms for the first and second line: the Tibetan has rtag tu and khor mo; Chinese: 常 (chang) and 恆 (heng). The third line also uses sadā but with a negative in Tibetan. The Chinese is a simple negative without the meaning “never.”

n.683According to the BHS gatiṃgata.

n.684According to the Sanskrit anartha, translated into Tibetan as gnod pa (“harm”), interpreting it to mean “non-beneficial.” The Chinese also translates as “non-beneficial.” Its other meaning has been translated here, as it appears to be more appropriate to the context.

n.685According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan lists three separate elements.

n.686According to the Tibetan and Chinese. The Sanskrit appears to have no negative: “there is mingling with…”

n.687The online Vaidya has vajane in error for varjane.

n.688Darśī is translated into Tibetan as “seen.” The Chinese translation focuses on how the certainty is arrived at: 心境相稱詞決定 (xin jing xiang chen ci jue ding).

n.689This verse is absent in the Gilgit and Hodgson, but present in the Tibetan and Shastri.

n.690According to the Sanskrit śīla. The Tibetan has only tshul instead of tshul khrims.

n.691According to the Sanskrit and Tibetan. The Chinese lists all four qualities as doorways that are entered.

n.692According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan makes the second and third lines into a single sentence.

n.693The Chinese here translates yoga as “method.”

n.694Sanskrit: ayuktayogin. Translated into Tibetan as mi rigs brtson pa.

n.695The online Vaidya has abhūbhi in error for abhūmi.

n.696In Chinese the order of the first two lines is reversed, and it begins, “the level of buddhahood is vast but not the level of the two [other] yānas.”

n.697According to the Sanskrit anubuddha and the Chinese. The Tibetan translates as rjes su ’brang (“followed”) instead of the expected khong du chud pa, or the like.

n.698According to the Tibetan grags pa chen po, which appears to have translated mahāyaśānām, although all Sanskrit versions have mahāśayānām (“those with great aspiration”). The Chinese translates as “those of the Mahāyāna.”

n.699The Tibetan adds “mantra” to make it vidyāmantra. The Chinese uses the unusual term 作明術 (zuo ming shu), literally meaning “techniques of clarifying,” which can be understood as “knowledge.”

n.700The Chinese has an additional verse before this one. It refers to emptiness and cessation.

n.701According to BHS niraṅga. Chinese: “free of kleśas.”

n.702Chinese: “can quickly attain wisdom.”

n.703According to the Sanskrit. Tibetan: “seeks bliss.”

n.704According to all Sanskrit versions and the Chinese. The Tibetan has “ninety-nine,” which appears to be an early scribal corruption in the Tibetan transmission.

n.705In the Chinese this verse is preceded by an additional verse not found in the Sanskrit or Tibetan.

n.706According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan has “In which there are no extremes or desire,” where anantasaṅga was taken as being negated and saṅga as having a negative meaning. The Chinese has “So that they can see many buddhas after their lives have ended.”

n.707At the beginning of this chapter he is the first in the list of past buddhas related by Śākyamuni, though the Tibetan and Chinese translations of the name differ from previous translations of the name.

n.708According to the Sanskrit prasannacitta. The Tibetan only translates citta (“mind”).

n.709Chinese: “in the past” instead of “numerous eons.”

n.710According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit: “numerous acts of generosity.”

n.711Chinese: “If I were to describe them it would take a long time.”

n.712Chinese: “go with you.”

n.713The Sanskrit has, in contrast to the earlier spelling, Śīrībala.

n.714Buddha Śākyamuni’s mother.

n.715This verse is not in the Gilgit or Chinese, but is in the Tibetan and the Shastri and Hodgson manuscripts, and is mentioned in the commentary.

n.716Buddha Śākyamuni’s father.

n.717This verse is not in the Gilgit or Chinese, but is in the Tibetan and the Shastri and Hodgson manuscripts, and is referred to in the commentary.

n.718According to the Tibetan, and the Shastri and Hodgson manuscripts.

n.719Chinese: End of fascicle 4.

n.720According to the Tibetan.

n.721Chinese: “mendicancy and perfect conduct.”

n.722According to the Sanskrit. Tibetan: “Those who have qualities of conduct and who have few requisites.” Chinese: “Numerous qualities of meditation and peace.”

n.723According to the Tibetan, Chinese, and the Dutt edition of the Sanskrit: literally, “destroyed.” The Vaidya edition has loke, “in the world,” in error for lope, “destroyed, ruined.”

n.724According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan repeats “beings.”

n.725This verse does not appear in the Chinese, though a variation of it appears four verses later.

n.726According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit: “Buddha.” Chinese: “Lord of Munis.”

n.727A verse in the Sanskrit and Chinese, which is a variation of a preceding verse, is absent in the Tibetan: “After eight hundred million eons / They will all, within the same eon, / Become guides of the world, / Compassionate and wishing to benefit.” The earlier version is absent in the Chinese.

n.728According to the Tibetan and Sanskrit. Chinese: “seventy.”

n.729According to the Tibetan and Sanskrit. Chinese: “and are moved to tears and weep.”

n.730From the Sanskrit satkṛta. Tibetan: mchod pa. Chinese: “offering.”

n.731According to the BHS ārocayāmi.

n.732According to the Sanskrit sparśita (“reached”). The Tibetan has thob corrupted to thos (“heard”).

n.733The passage from this point on until “the gandharva Pañcaśikha” (19.­9) is present in the Tibetan, Shastri, and Hodgson; it is briefly referenced in the commentary, but it is absent in the Gilgit.

n.734According to the Sanskrit padāni. The Tibetan tshig could mean “words.”

n.735These preceding three paragraphs are absent in the Chinese.

n.736The Sanskrit has them making the sounds ha ha and kilikilā. The Tibetan translates as “a la la.”

n.737According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan translates as “a la la.”

n.738Literally, “son of a gandharva.”

n.739According to the Sanskrit ahaṃ. The Tibetan has bdag cag (“we”).

n.740The Sanskrit pañcamātra, “fivefold” music, was not translated into Tibetan. It presumably refers, as in the White Lotus of Compassion Sūtra, to the five tempos (Sanskrit: pañcāṅgika; Tibetan: yan lag lnga dang ldan pa), referring to the number of strokes per beat. This is a characteristic of South Indian music, particularly that of Karnataka.

n.741According to the Sanskrit. Tibetan: “five hundred holders of musical instruments.”

n.742According to the Sanskrit saṃyukta. Tibetan: dang ldan pa (“possessing”).

n.743This paragraph does not appear in the Chinese.

n.744According to the BHS upīḍa for utpīḍa, and the Chinese 逼窄. Tibetan: gnod par byed pa (“causing harm”).

n.745According to the Tibetan and Sanskrit. Chinese: “sixteen.”

n.746According to the Sanskrit ramaṇīyāḥ. The Tibetan dbyangs dga’ ba may be a scribal corruption. Absent in the Chinese.

n.747Literally, maruta, here used as a synonym for deva . Both the Tibetan and Chinese translate deva and maruta by the same term.

n.748The Sanskrit here changes to the singular. The plural has been kept for consistency.

n.749The Sanskrit has “tathāgatas.”

n.750According to the Sanskrit kāmān and the Chinese. The Tibetan has a scribal corruption of ’dod to gdod.

n.751According to the BHS mata jñātaṃ. The Tibetan has rig dang bye brag phyed (“known and discriminated”). Chinese: 憶念, literally, “remembered”; can mean “have known.”

n.752According to the Sanskrit. Translated into Tibetan as bdud (“ Māra ”), which here has the same meaning. Chinese: 魔, a simple term that refers to both Māra and Namuci.

n.753In accordance with the Tibetan and the Hodgson and Shastri manuscripts. “The sound of the lute” is absent in the Gilgit manuscript and the Chinese.

n.754The prose introduction for this chapter is more concise in the Chinese.

n.755According to the BHS. Tibetan: “It is taught to all foolish (childlike) beings.”

n.756According to the Sanskrit paitṛkadhana. The Tibetan translates as “the wealth of the other shore” or “transcendent wealth,” pha rol nor, presumably from a corruption in a Sanskrit manuscript.

n.757According to the BHS and the commentary, where this is singular. The Kangyur version translates it as plural in this and the next verse. The commentary adds that Buddha Śākyamuni is stating that this is his previous life.

n.758This verse is in the Tibetan, and the Shastri and Hodgson manuscripts, but not in the Gilgit manuscript.

n.759According to the Tibetan, in which the verb here is gdon mi za bar bya’o. The Sanskrit of the Hodgson and Shastri manuscripts has “…should depend upon the duties and qualities of the training that is the root of all merit” (śikṣāguṇa­dharmaniśrita). They also have at this point “…should have pure conduct through depending on roots of merit…” and so on. The Gilgit manuscript chapter is composed only of the verses.

n.760According to the BHS nirhāra. The Tibetan translates as mos pa (“aspire”), which does not appear to fit the context.

n.761The prose introduction to this chapter is absent in the Gilgit manuscript and the Chinese.

n.762According to the Tibetan and Chinese. The Sanskrit has jambusāhvaye (“called Jambu”).

n.763According to the commentary they were sons of merchants. Chinese: 二不放逸長者子 (er bu fang yi zhang zhe zi) “two sons of elders.”

n.764Kṣatriya is absent in the Chinese.

n.765According to the Sanskrit and the Yongle Kangyur. The other editions have lam in error for las.

n.766Tibetan rgyal po’i glang po, translating the Sanskrit rājakuñjara (literally, “king-elephant”), which has the meaning “preeminent king.” It is classified in Sanskrit as a metaphor, i.e., “a king who is an elephant,” meaning “an elephant among kings,” in contrast to the simile “a king who is like an elephant.” The Chinese translates this epithet either as simply “king” or “great king.”

n.767The Sanskrit and Tibetan omit the number “ten million” so that it becomes six trillion, but this is evidently a brief way of referring to the entire sixty quintillion in the army, as later that number is said to have all developed the aspiration to enlightenment. Chinese: six yi, which can mean “sixty thousand,” “six million,” or “sixty million.”

n.768This verse does not appear in the Chinese.

n.769According to the Tibetan and Sanskrit. Chinese: “protector.”

n.770According to the Tibetan and Sanskrit. Chinese: “great king.”

n.771According to the Sanskrit ghātaya and the Chinese. Tibetan: spong (“abandon”).

n.772Chinese: “The king should remain with friends who act according to the Dharma.”

n.773According to the Sanskrit and Tibetan. Chinese: “This deva speaks the truth to the king; please do not abandon the Buddhadharma.”

n.774The commentary states that this refers to the bhikṣus. The Chinese translates as “was stationed at the border to safeguard the nation.”

n.775The Dutt and therefore the Vaidya divide the verses into fewer numbers with six lines each.

n.776The Chinese adds: “and would not let you live.”

n.777In the Chinese this verse is preceded by an additional verse. The Gilgit manuscript repeats the earlier verse that begins, “You must kill those two dharmabhāṇakas.”

n.778According to the commentary, “the king” in this and the succeeding three verses is not the king himself but “the king’s brother.” This is further established by the supplementary verses that were not present in the Gilgit manuscript. The Chinese translates as “the king’s brother.” The Sanskrit and Tibetan have just “king” or “elephant king,” which is confusing.

n.779In the Chinese the last line states that one should avoid bad friends. The following verses are absent in the Chinese.

n.780This is the final verse in the Gilgit manuscript. The Hodgson and Shastri manuscripts and the Tibetan have three additional verses.

n.781According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit: “Those dharmabhāṇakas.”

n.782According to the Tibetan rgyal po. This verse is absent in the Gilgit. The Hodgson and Shastri have maitreyurāhu. The Tibetan may have been translating from a manuscript that read maitreyurāju.

n.783The Chinese adds: “Therefore, bodhisattvas should know about the dharmakāya and the rūpakāya.” The rest of this chapter does not appear in the Chinese.

n.784In the Sanskrit manuscripts and in the commentary, chapter 22 continues and includes the chapter numbered 23 in the Tibetan.

n.785This paragraph does not appear in the Chinese.

n.786The Chinese adds “born from immeasurable merit.”

n.787According to the Tibetan, Chinese, and Hodgson manuscript, budhyā ekarthani. The Gilgit and Shastri have budhyānekarthani (“many meanings” instead of “one meaning”).

n.788Chinese: “this is because all phenomena arise from causes.”

n.789Chinese: “It is devoid of all features because it is profound.”

n.790Chinese: “It is immeasurable because it has no limits.”

n.791Chinese: “It is without attributes because it has no nature of its own.”

n.792Chinese: “It is without attributes because it is devoid of attributes.”

n.793Chinese: “It is unwavering because it abides in tranquility.” This is followed by a few additional descriptions: “It is nondual because it has only one aspect. It is unchanging because it is free from conceptualization. It is indescribable because it transcends words / languages.” After these, there are a few extra and missing verses here and there, compared to the Tibetan and Sanskrit. For example, an extra verse is: “Phenomena have no base because they transcend all views.”

n.794This sentence does not appear in the Chinese.

n.795The Gilgit manuscript follows this with “It cannot be shown,” which is absent in the later manuscripts and the Tibetan.

n.796Sanskrit: aniketa. The Tibetan translates as gnas med pa. Earlier in the list apratiṣṭhita (“no location”) was translated as mi gnas pa. Not present in the Chinese.

n.797According to the Sanskrit and the commentary. The Tibetan here interprets this as “has the quintessence that transcends the scope of words …”

n.798According to the Tibetan and the BHS: doṣapatha in Classical Sanskrit would mean “the path of wickedness.” The Chinese puts “transcendence of desire, anger, and ignorance and their respective causes” together in one phrase, and follows it with “because all phenomena are empty in essence.”

n.799Chinese: “It is unborn because it has ended all births.” At this point the Gilgit manuscript also has “It is undefiled as it transcends the ripening [of karma]. It is permanent…” This is all absent in the later manuscripts and the Tibetan. See also the following note.

n.800According to the Gilgit Sanskrit nityo vyāhāreṇa vyavahāraś ca śūnyaḥ. The words vyavahāraś ca śūnyaḥ are omitted from the later Sanskrit manuscripts, whereas the commentary was evidently based on a text that omitted only ca śūnya, but retained nityo vyāhāreṇa (“ ‘permanent’ in terms of words”). The Tibetan appears to be based on a manuscript that also omitted nityo so that the resulting vyāhareṇa vyavahāra was translated as meaning “through language there is terminology.” The commentary, because of the absence of ca śūnya, explains “terminology” as referring to nirvāṇa . The corresponding Chinese phrase seems to be 以無常但言説故（yi wu chang dan yan shuo gu), which could be understood as “It is impermanent because it is [permanent] only in terms of words or speech.”

n.801According to the commentary no differentiation is taken as a cause for nirvāṇa, which is just a term used in the world, and there is no difference between the nirvāna of buddhas, pratyekabuddhas, and śrāvakas.

n.802Literally, nirvṛta, the past passive participle “extinguished.” According to the commentary this means that it is indescribable through words.

n.803According to the commentary: “The words that are like an echo pacify the concepts of the subject that is talked about, and therefore there is peace.”

n.804According to the commentary: “Designations are merely concepts, and therefore mere designations can act as terminology for anything.”

n.805According to the commentary the correct speech uses synonyms, such as “truth,” “true nature,” and “the ultimate,” which are used to teach the ultimate truth.

n.806According to the Sanskrit and the commentary. The Tibetan in the Kangyur translates as “there is calmness because of the absence of anguish” because they are corollaries. The same words could mean “There is coolness, the absence of fever.” The commentary states: “anguish or fever means the kleśas .” The Chinese has 以清涼離惱熱故 (yi qing liang li nao re gu), in which 清涼 (qing liang) literally means “coolness” but can be understood as “calmness.” 惱熱 (nao re) literally means “the fever of agitated mind,” but can also mean “anguish” and “kleśas.”

n.807From the Sanskrit animitta, translated into Tibetan as gnas med pa, here meaning “baseless,” or “groundless,” even though gnas med pa had just been used to translate aniketa.

n.808The Sanskrit has anindita, and the commentary has smad du med pa (“cannot be denigrated” or “irreproachable”).

n.809The commentary states that this is because its qualities are endless. The Tibetan translates “description” literally as “teaching its color,” which is not quite appropriate in this context. In the Chinese this is followed by: “There is no end to the description of its merit.”

n.810Chinese: “If someone wishes to see the Lord of the World and know his body.”

n.811The commentary states that this is because the nature of the samādhi and the Buddha’s body are the same.

n.812According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan has added “hundred,” presumably for metrical reasons.

n.813Chinese: “His body.”

n.814According to the commentary, these three bad perceptions are those arising from aversion, attachment, and ignorance.

n.815According to the commentary, but not the Sanskrit manuscripts, chapter 22 ends here.

n.816According to the Sanskrit acintya and most Kangyurs. The Degé has bstan (resulting in “unteachable,” or “unshowable”) instead of bsam.

n.817This paragraph is more concise in the Chinese.

n.818The Dutt divides up the verses unevenly.

n.819According to the Sanskrit naikakāle prajānitum. The Tibetan may have been translated from a corrupt manuscript and has du ma dag ni shes mi sla (“the numerous that are not easy to know.”) Chinese: “I can look at all beings, whose number is greater than that of these particles, and know their aspirations and motivations all at the same time.” 我觀一切生, 多於彼塵數, 發心及起信, 於一時悉知 (wo guan yi qie zhong sheng, duo yu bi chen shu, fa xin ji qi xin, yu yi shi xi zhi).

n.820According to the Tibetan, Chinese, Gilgit, and Shastri manuscripts (naiva). The Hodgson has only caiva, without any negation.

n.821According to the Sanskrit niittakarmanā, which is in the instrumental, but the Tibetan has dang (“and”) instead of kyis (“through”).

n.822Sanskrit: varṇa. Translated into Tibetan as kha mdog (“color”).

n.823According to the Tibetan, presumably translating from tatrākalpitam. There appears to be no negation in the Sanskrit tatra kalpitam.

n.824End of the fascicle 5 and beginning of fascicle 6 in the Song, Yuan, Min, Gong, and Sheng editions, but in the Taisho edition fascicle 5 continues. 卷第五終【宋】【元】【明】【宮】【聖】本.

n.825According to the Sanskrit varṇavyāhāra and the Mahāvyutpatti’s translation of varṇa and vyāhāra as brjod pa. The Tibetan in both the sūtra and the commentary is bsngags brjod pa (“expression of praise”), which does not fit the context here, and may be a scribal corruption of ngag brjod pa.

n.826The text has just “inconceivable,” which is used numerous times in this chapter, but with the meaning of an inconceivable number, rather than one of the inconceivability of the words expressed.

n.827This first part of the chapter up to this point does not appear in the Chinese.

n.828From this point on, the Gilgit lists the names of the sets of four with the nature of the four merely implied because of the repetition. The Tibetan, Hodgson, and Shastri have the same variation in the list, and the contents of each set of four are given in full.

n.829From the Sanskrit udbhāva. The Tibetan translates this freely as sgrol ba (“liberation”). The Chinese translates as 度 (du), which means “reach the other shore.” This is the same word that translates paramitas.

n.830This is followed in the Sanskrit by a list of vyavāhāra (“practices”), absent in the Tibetan and Chinese.

n.831According to the Tibetan and the commentary. Not present in the Sanskrit.

n.832According to the Tibetan and the commentary. Not present in the Sanskrit.

n.833According to the Tibetan and the commentary. Not present in the Sanskrit.

n.834According to the Tibetan spyad pa. Not present in the Sanskrit manuscripts or the commentary.

n.835Here both “countless” and “inconceivable” are translating the same word: acintya; bsam gyis mi khyab pa. However, the first appears from context to mean “an inconceivable number.”

n.836According to the commentary these words prove that there is no center and no edge, no past and no future.

n.837According to the Tibetan rgyu ba med pa and the commentary. The commentary explains that this means that there is no coming or going by anyone. The Hodgson and Shastri have pracārapadāni (“conduct”) at this point.

n.838Tibetan: gzhal du med pa, which in the Mahāvyutpatti corresponds with atulya. Gilgit: [a]tulyapatha. The Chinese translates from atulya (不可稱, bu ke cheng). Hodgson and Shastri: aparyantapāda (“unlimited words”). The commentary states that the words describe qualities that are unequaled or incomparable because there are no phenomena like them.

n.839According to the commentary, this means that these words are the cause for the listening, contemplation, and meditation that give rise to wisdom.

n.840According to the BHS chanda. The commentary states that this means “teaching definitions through various languages so as to bring delight to beings.”

n.841According to the Sanskrit and BHS prajñapana.

n.842According to the Sanskrit prakāśana.

n.843According to the Sanskrit prasthānapa.

n.844According to the BHS uttānīkaraṇa. The Tibetan has gsal bar byed pa (“make clear”).

n.845According to the BHS anela. The commentary has tshig mi ’dres pa (“unmixed”). Tibetan: tshig mi ’dor (“casting out”).

n.846According to the Tibetan. Absent in the Sanskrit and commentary.

n.847According to the Tibetan. Absent in the Sanskrit and commentary.

n.848The Chinese has an additional verse that precedes this one.

n.849According to the BHS jānamī and the Chinese 我知 (wo zhi). The Tibetan has bshad pa (“teach”), which may be a scribal corruption of shes through copying from dictation.

n.850According to the Sanskrit guṇāḥ and the Chinese 功德 (gong de). The Tibetan has bsngags (“praise”).

n.851Sanskrit: “highest of engagements with discernment.”

n.852From “They do not seek enlightenment as other than consciousness” to this point does not appear in the Chinese.

n.853According to the Tibetan, presumably translating from a text that read śabdena saṃprakāśitam, and the commentary. The Sanskrit has śabdenāsaṃprakāśitam (“is not taught through words”).

n.854Dutt’s edition accidentally numbers this verse as 9, so that all subsequent verses are misnumbered.

n.855According to the Sanskrit niḥsṛta and the Chinese. The Tibetan has mi brten par (“without being based on”), perhaps from a text that had śrita instead of sṛta.

n.856These apparently extra lines in this verse appear in both the Sanskrit and the Tibetan.

n.857According to the Tibetan. All the Sanskrit manuscripts have “Cannot be defeated / By many ten millions of māras.” The Chinese has “will not be disturbed by millions of māras.”

n.858In the Chinese the order of this and the preceding verse is reversed.

n.859According to one meaning of the Sanskrit pranaṣṭa, and the Chinese. Translated into Tibetan in this verse as brlag (destroyed) and in the next verse as shin tu ’khyams (“wandering far”).

n.860According to the Sanskrit bhave cābhāvasaṃjinaḥ, the Chinese, and the commentary, which explains that this means “not believing in the existence of nirvāṇa and the ultimate nature.” The Tibetan basically repeats the first line.

n.861According to the Tibetan interpretation of the Sanskrit compound jñātralabha. However, these terms appear uncompounded in other texts, meaning “acquisition and reputation.” The Chinese has “close relations (families) 親 (qin) (presumably from a manuscript that had jñatri), wealth / possessions 財 (cai), and profits 利 (li).”

n.862According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit pranaṣṭa literally means “destroyed” or “lost.” The Chinese has “lost” (有失, you shi).

n.863According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit, including the Gilgit, has “will think of their sons and daughters as being their wives.”

n.864The Chinese specifies the five lay precepts.

n.865According to the Sanskrit avadata. The Degé has skya bo (“white”). The Yongle, Peking, Narthang, and Lhasa Kangyurs have skye bo.

n.866A conical or bowl kettle drum, also called a nagada. The upper surface is beaten with sticks. Often played in pairs, one larger than the other.

n.867A kettle drum played with the hands. Held horizontally, it is wider in the middle with the skin at both ends. One drumhead is smaller than the other. It is a South Indian drum; it maintains the rhythm in Karnataka music.

n.868According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit: “They will perceive the enlightenment of buddhahood / Through being incited by false words.”

n.869According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit: “Will prattle on about the wisdom of buddhahood.”

n.870The Chinese of this verse is different: “I have never heard of or seen those with that kind of conduct, who are ignorant and dwell in bad ways, attaining the wisdom of buddhahood.”

n.871The Chinese of this verse is different: “If I were to talk for an eon / About the various faults of those / Who claim to be bodhisattvas, / I could mention only a fraction. 我若一劫中, 說彼諸過失, 自謂菩薩者, 但能說小分 (ruo wo yi jie zhong, shuo bi zhu guo shi, zi wei pu sa zhe, dan neng shuo xiao fen).

n.872According to the Sanskrit saṃstava, the Lithang, Narthang, and Cone Kangyurs, and the Chinese. The Degé has ston (“teach”) instead of sten.

n.873Literally, “guides.” Chinese: “buddhas.”

n.874According to the Sanskrit vaipulya and the Chinese 我學習不廣 (wo xue xi bu guang). The Tibetan mtshungs med appears to have translated from a corruption to atulya (“unequaled”). The Hodgson manuscript has a corruption to puṇya (“merit”).

n.875Chinese: “the merit of correct conduct.”

n.876The Chinese has an additional verse following this one.

n.877According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit and Chinese: “the bliss of meditation.”

n.878According to the Tibetan, Chinese, Shastri (vidhāraṇīmukham), and Hodgson (dhāraṇīye mukham). The Gilgit manuscript, however, has evaṃ hi dhārayet sukham (“and thus you should possess happiness”).

n.879According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit and Chinese: “the wisdom of enlightenment.”

n.880This verse does not appear in the Chinese.

n.881Literally, “the Teacher.” Chinese: 汝今得值佛, 發於菩提心 (ru jin de zhi fo, fa yu pu ti xin), “Now that you have met the Buddha, you should arouse bodhicitta.”

n.882Beginning of fascicle 6 of the Taisho ed., and fascicle 7 of the Song, Yuan, Ming, Gong, and Sheng eds.

n.883There are two verses in the Gilgit manuscript, numbered 4 and 5, that are also present in the Chinese, but do not appear in the later Sanskrit manuscripts, are not mentioned in the commentary, and are absent in the Tibetan: “I rejoice in those who do not believe in a self, / Who do not believe in existence or believe in a soul. / I rejoice in those who do not have bad views, / Who have seen emptiness and developed contentment. / I rejoice in those who follow the Sugata’s teaching, / Who attain the state of a mendicant, / And who have few desires, dwell content in the forest, / And have peaceful conduct and the practice of meditation.”

n.884This verse does not appear in the Gilgit manuscript or the Chinese, and does not appear to be mentioned in the commentary.

n.885According to the Tibetan and the commentary. This verse does not appear in the Gilgit manuscript or the Chinese.

n.886According to the Tibetan and the commentary. This verse does not appear in the Gilgit manuscript or the Chinese.

n.887Divided into two points in the Chinese.

n.888Points 8 and 9 are combined into one point in the Chinese.

n.889The Chinese adds “that is, the disciples of the buddhas, the bodhisattvas, and śrāvakas.”

n.890From the BHS anuparivārayati and according to the definition in the commentary. The Tibetan translates with the alternative meaning of “encircling” or “surrounding.” The Gilgit version has pariśodhayati (“purifies”). The Chinese translates this sentence as “They will perfect wisdom of all kinds.” 滿足一切智 (man zu yi qie zhi).

n.891According to the Sanskrit, the commentary, and most Kangyurs, except for the Degé which has ’byor pa in error for ’byol ba. Chinese: “They abandon all concern about life and death.” 棄捨生死 (qi she sheng si).

n.892Tibetan: thob par byed pa (“cause to obtain”). Sanskrit: arpayati (see Mahāvyutpatti 7428). Chinese: “They long for the joy of nirvāṇa,” 慕樂涅槃 (mu le nie pan).

n.893Chinese: “They will not lack faith or wealth,” 不乏信財 (bu fa xin cai).

n.894According to the Sanskrit and Chinese. The Tibetan repeats “the wise ones.”

n.895Chinese: “obstructions” or “obstacles,” 無障礙 (wu zhang ai).

n.896According to the Sanskrit niraṅga. Translated into Tibetan as nyon mongs med pa.

n.897Literally, “they are difficult to approach.” The commentary explains that this means they have such a complete attainment of qualities that they cannot easily be surpassed. Chinese: “Others cannot surpass their attainments.”

n.898The Chinese adds the point: “their confidence of speech increases,” 增長辯才 (zeng zhang bian cai).

n.899According to the Sanskrit musala and the Mahāvyupatti. The Chinese combines 9 and 10 as the tenth point. The verses that follow do not expand on the last analogy, but the commentary’s explanation (F.85.a.7) of these two last benefits is: “Their positive qualities progressively increase without being contaminated by the mud of saṃsāra’s defects, without gradually being worn down like the metal of a pestle, and without giving rise to suffering.”

n.900Chinese: “their attainments are difficult to surpass.” See note n.­897.

n.901Gilgit and Chinese: “without anguish or kleśas,” 其心無惱熱 (qi xin wu nao re).

n.902Chinese: “always,” 常 (chang).

n.903Does not appear in the Chinese.

n.904At this point the Chinese has an additional two lines concerning discernment and wisdom.

n.905This line does not appear in the Chinese.

n.906The first half of this verse is absent in the later Sanskrit and the Tibetan. The Gilgit has: “He maintains what he has learned / And is presented with what he has not learned.” The order of qualities in this and the succeeding verse differs in the Tibetan from all three Sanskrit manuscripts.

n.907In the Chinese this four-line verse is in a shorter form as the first half of a verse.

n.908At this point, Dutt has a second half-verse that is said to be reconstructed from the Tibetan and absent in the Sanskrit (although these lines are not present in the Degé, their absence is not noted in the Pedurma, and they are not present in the Stok Palace): “When it comes time to die, / It is similarly fruitful for them.” The commentary does not gloss any of these verses. Here, the Chinese has: “In this way, after hearing the Dharma / They develop the Dharma they have heard. / They remember it constantly, / Day and night, without intermission.”

n.909The commentary states that this refers to “the levels, the six perfections, and so forth.” The Chinese has “engage in the field of loving kindness,” 行慈境界.

n.910According to the commentary, this means that in a state of meditation the senses are disengaged from their objects. The Chinese has “protected,” 守護 (shou hu).

n.911Chinese: “bliss without food.” “Without food” is a synonym for the meditative state.

n.912The Tibetan here has bsam gtan (as in the prose opening on this topic), while the Sanskrit has samādhi both here and in the last line of the preceding verse.

n.913According to the commentary, this means that there is no conceptualized fixation upon the diligent activity of body, speech, or mind.

n.914Chinese: “Their minds cannot be swayed by other views,” 於他言論其心不動 (yu ta yan lun qi xin bu dong).

n.915The commentary explains that involvement with the composite is like darkness and the bodhisattvas’ wisdom is like a light that eliminates that darkness. The Chinese here has: 能達生死海底 (neng da sheng si hai), literally, “they have reached the bottom of the ocean of life and death,” which means, “they know the depth of the ocean of saṃsāra” or “they transcend saṃsāra.”

n.916These two qualities are the ninth and tenth benefits in the Chinese.

n.917This does not appear in the Chinese.

n.918According to the Tibetan and Chinese. Here the Sanskrit has vimukta (“liberation”) instead of the earlier vivikta (“isolation”).

n.919“Wise” does not appear in the Chinese.

n.920According to the Sanskrit, here māra is in the singular, while earlier it was in the plural. Neither is indicated in the Tibetan or Chinese.

n.921Chinese: “They are unswayed by other views.”

n.922According to the Sanskrit gādha. The Tibetan has gting, “depth.” The Chinese uses the expression, “have reached the bottom of (the ocean of) life and death (compare n.­915),” to mean “knowing the depth of samsara, or the composite.” Gādha translated into Chinese can mean “shallowness” or “depth.”

n.923Chinese: “faith and wisdom.”

n.924Chinese: “They know the kleśas.”

n.925Chinese: “They know purification.”

n.926According to the Sanskrit pratiṣthate (“to be upon”) and the Yongle and Peking Kangyur sten (“to rely upon”). The Degé has ston (“teach”).

n.927The commentary explains that this means that they dedicate the merit they have to the beings who do not have that merit. The Chinese translates as “portion of merit.”

n.928According to the Sanskrit singular form. The Chinese has “realms.”

n.929According to the later Sanskrit manuscripts and the Tibetan. The Gilgit has “the highest.” Chinese: “as the Buddha has taught.”

n.930According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit bodhimaṇḍaṃ samārūḍha means, “He has taken his seat upon the Bodhimaṇḍa.”

n.931According to the commentary, the dwelling of the Buddha is emptiness.

n.932According to the Tibetan mi gnas pa. The BHS aniśrita and the Chinese could be translated as “nondependent.”

n.933The Chinese adds “of any kind.”

n.934According to the Sanskrit parmāṛṣati and the Chinese 於戒不取 (yu jie bu qu). Translated into Tibetan as mchog tu ’dzin pa (literally, “holding as supreme”). According to the commentary this means there is freedom from the concepts of a self who maintains conduct, a conduct that is being maintained, and a goal that is to be achieved through that conduct. Śīla­vrata­parāmarśa (tshul khrims dang brtul zhugs mchog tu ’dzin pa), “clinging to conduct and observance,” is one of the four kinds of attachment (upādana, len pa) as well as one of the ten fetters (saṃyojana, kun tu sbyor ba).

n.935Commentary: “they see the empty nature of all things.” Chinese: “they are without conflict.”

n.936According to the commentary: “they remain in the meditation of emptiness, which is detached, separate, or isolated from all kleśas.” Chinese: “detached from all bad matters.”

n.937According to the commentary, disparaging the Buddha means claiming that the Buddha’s true teaching was the existence of individuals, and so on, instead of the emptiness of all phenomena.

n.938Chinese: “all white, pure Dharma.”

n.939Chinese: “have immaculate conduct,” 成就無漏戒 (cheng jiu wu lou jie), from anāsravaśīla.

n.940According to the Sanskrit and the prose section. The Tibetan adds “path” here, making it the superior, or noble, path rather than a superior being.

n.941The Chinese has a different version of the second half of the verse: “They will not be born in lower realms, 不生惡道中 (bu sheng yu er dao zhong) / And will always remain within noble families 常安住聖種 (chang an zhu sheng zhong).”

n.942Chinese: “There is no fixation on the bliss of dhyāna ,” 不依禪定樂 (bu yi chan ding le).

n.943Sanskrit: aniśrita (“nondependent”). Chinese: “teachings on emptiness.”

n.944According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit has āryas (the superior, noble ones). The Chinese has “buddhas and āryas” (佛勝人, fo sheng ren).

n.945According to the Sanskrit and Tibetan. The commentary, however, has chos (“Dharma”) instead of the similarly sounding spyod (“conduct”). However, the definition of it as both “realization” and “scriptural transmission” indicates that it was “Dharma” in the Sanskrit commentary.

n.946According to the commentary: “they do not have any doubt as to whether the Buddha’s wisdom exists, or their ability to attain it.” Chinese: “wisdom of the Buddha.”

n.947According to the commentary this means engaging in looking at the Buddha, paying homage to him, making offerings to him, and so on, as a result of knowing the qualities that come from hearing, contemplating, and meditating on the Dharma. The Chinese has only “they have gratitude.”

n.948Chinese: “disparage,” 謗 (bang).

n.949According to the commentary these are the kleśas and karma that arise from ignorance, aversion, and attachment.

n.950The Tibetan has the plural here, while the Sanskrit is in the singular, as in other lines of this passage. For this translation, as in many other similar passages, the plural has been preferred because it avoids the use of gender-specific pronouns.

n.951According to the commentary, this means the four noble truths. The Chinese does not have “four.”

n.952According to the commentary, this is referring to “households from which they receive food on their alms rounds, maintaining equanimity or impartiality toward them all.” Chinese: “they are devoid of attachment and aversion.”

n.953According to the Sanskrit nirāmiṣa and the commentary. The Tibetan translates vaguely as zang zing (“material goods”). Āmiṣa can mean gifts in general and also specifically food. The Chinese integrates this into the previous point. Chinese: “They teach the Dharma without expectation of food.”

n.954Chinese: “These are the qualities of austere mendicancy.”

n.955Chinese: “These are the qualities of austere mendicancy.”

n.956This verse is absent in the Chinese.

n.957The beginning of this chapter, up to this point, is absent in the Chinese.

n.958“In order to explain this topic” does not appear in the Chinese.

n.959According to the Sanskrit. Absent in the Tibetan.

n.960This is a reference to the Haṃsajātaka, the story of the Buddha’s previous life as a goose king named Dhṛtarāṣṭra who taught the Dharma to a king and queen.

n.961According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit vihaga is usually a generic word for “birds.”

n.962According to the commentary this is referring to the Samkhya view of a puruṣa (“individual”) and his or her jīva (“soul”), which keeps them bound to prakṛti (“nature”). Chinese: “lifespan,” 壽 (shou).

n.963According to the Sanskrit nara, Chinese 人 (ren), and Yongle, Peking, Lithang, Narthang, and Cone Kangyurs mi. Degé: ming (“name”).

n.964According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit has phena (“foam”), and this is matched by the Tibetan of the commentary (dbu ba). The Tibetan may therefore have been translated according to a variant Sanskrit manuscript not represented today.

n.965Instead of “dreams / foam or a plantain tree,” the Chinese has “like a wild horse.”

n.966At this point in the Shastri manuscript there is a verse that begins, “The three realms are like a dream…” which is absent in the Gilgit, Chinese, Tibetan, and the Hodgson manuscript, and yet is quoted by Candrakīrti in the seventh century.

n.967Chinese: “six.”

n.968According to the BHS nipuṇa. The Tibetan translates incorrectly according to its classical Sanskrit meaning mkhas pa (wise, or skillful). Absent in the Chinese.

n.969In this and the following verses, there is much word-play in both Sanskrit and Tibetan between the closely related (see glossary) terms for “movement” or “going” (Sanskrit gati, Tibetan ’gro), and “mode” (Sanskrit gatī, Tibetan ’gros).

n.970According to the BHS nipuna and the Chinese 微細 (wei xi). The Tibetan translates incorrectly according to its classical Sanskrit meaning mkhas pa (“wise,” “skillful”).

n.971Chinese: “true.”

n.972According to the Sanskrit nipurṇārtha. The Tibetan has zhi ba’i don (“peaceful meaning”). The Sanskrit nipurṇārtha is sometimes translated into Chinese as “true,” and sometimes as “subtle.” Here it is translated as “mode of true meaning,” 真義道 (zhen yi dao).

n.973The Chinese has a different order for this and the preceding three verses.

n.974According to the Gilgit manuscript tada, and the commentary; does not appear in the Shastri. The Hodgson has sadā, and the Tibetan has translated from sadā as rtag (“always”), which does not seem to fit the context.

n.975Here the synonym “Jambudhvaja” (Jambu Banner) is used. The Chinese has “Jambudvīpa,” 閻浮提 (yan fu ti).

n.976In the Chinese there are an additional two lines to make the second half of a verse, about pursuing the bliss of bodhicitta.

n.977In the Chinese there are an additional two lines to make the second half of a verse, about suffering and lack of faith.

n.978According to the Sanskrit and Chinese. The Tibetan has the obscure bla ma yi chad pa, presumably meaning “punishment from on high.”

n.979Replaced by a different verse in the Chinese.

n.980Chinese: “they guard their own fortune but rob others of their wealth.”

n.981According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan has translated as mkhas pa (“wise”).

n.982Chinese: “When they see a Dharma teacher make a small mistake, / They would exaggerate it and add hundreds or thousands more to it.” 若見法師少過失，增長加說百千種 (ruo jian fa shi shao guo shi, zeng zhang jia shuo bai qian zhong).

n.983According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit: “do not praise.” Chinese: “do not get close to,” 勿親近 (wu qin jin).

n.984According to the Sanskrit nirvrtti. The Tibetan translates as mnya nga las ’das pa (nirvāṇa). This verse does not appear in the Gilgit manuscript or the Chinese.

n.985According to the Sanskrit rucira. The Tibetan perhaps translated from a text that had cūrna (“powders”) translated as “incense.”

n.986This verse does not appear in the Gilgit manuscript or the Chinese.

n.987According to the Sanskrit vipañcī. Apparently replaced in Tibetan by the word sna tshogs (“various”).

n.988According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan has “wiped clean.” The Chinese has “skillfully made and adorned with precious materials,” 眾寶善巧而雕飾 (zhong bao shan qiao er diao shi).

n.989This verse is absent in the Gilgit manuscript and the Chinese.

n.990This verse is absent in the Gilgit manuscript and the Chinese.

n.991Absent in the Chinese.

n.992In the Chinese, this verse is followed by an additional verse about offerings.

n.993Sanskrit: śila. These are ammonite shell fossils, of great significance and value in India.

n.994From the Sanskrit ghana. The Tibetan appears to have translated from a manuscript that had dhāna (“grain”).

n.995Sanskrit sīhanukāḥ, Tibetan seng ge can rin chen. The meaning is obscure.

n.996No number in the Chinese.

n.997According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit: “hundreds.”

n.998Chinese: “There were hundreds and thousands (or many hundred thousands) of other kinds of hardship, which I endured to the point that my body was totally exhausted.”

n.999Chinese: “How did I attain this samādhi? By freeing others from hundreds and thousands of kinds of suffering.”

n.1000According to the Sanskrit, in which, in all manuscripts, there is the adjective maitraka . The commentary glosses this as meaning Maitreya after he has attained buddhahood. The Tibetan rgyal ba byams pa grags pa mtha’ yas could be translated as “infinitely famous Jina Maitreya,” and possibly, “the Jina with infinitely famous kindness.”

n.1001“Infinite fame” does not appear in the Chinese.

n.1002According to the Tibetan, presumably translating from manuja and the Chinese 人. The Sanskrit has maruta, which is a synonym for “the devas.”

n.1003According to the Tibetan ’byung po and the Gilgit manuscript bhūta. The Shastri and Hodgson manuscripts have deva . The Chinese has a combination of two words: “spirits” and “worldly gods,” 鬼神.

n.1004Chinese: “Do not have a mind of love and desire.”

n.1005According to the Sanskrit gira and the Yongle and Peking Kangyurs dbyangs. Other Kangyurs have the incorrect dbyings. Chinese: “delightful voice.”

n.1006According to the Sanskrit krauñca. The Tibetan translation is khrung khrung, which usually means “the crane.” Sanskrit dictionaries normally identify this as “the curlew.” The Mahāvyutpatti has krung krung for krauñca.

n.1007The Chinese does not have “crane,” but has “peacocks, avadavats, and various musical instruments.”

n.1008This refers to the sixteen vowels and thirty-four consonants in Sanskrit. The Chinese describes the voice as the melodious sounds of geese, bells, and drums blended with the sound of a hundred musical instruments.

n.1009According to the Tibetan grong. The Sanskrit has kula (“families”).

n.1010Chinese: “every family who has come to pay their respects all praise them,” 往詣家家皆讚歎.

n.1011This verse is followed in the Chinese by an additional verse about rebirth in Sukhāvatī.

n.1012According to the Tibetan, presumably from supraśāntamana. The Sanskrit has suviśuddhamana (“a pure mind”).

n.1013The Sanskrit is in the singular, the Tibetan in the plural. This verse does not appear in the Chinese.

n.1014These are taught in the Sūtra of the Ten Bhūmis (see bibliography).

n.1015This verse is not in any of the Sanskrit sources, nor in the Chinese, but is glossed in the commentary.

n.1016These are taught in,the Tathāgatotpattisambhavanirdeśa (“The Teaching on the Emergence of the Tathāgata”), chapter 43 in the Avataṃsaka Sūtra.

n.1017According to the commentary, power over life means that the bodhisattva can remain alive for countless eons.

n.1018According to the commentary, power over karma means that the bodhisattva can control the time when it ripens.

n.1019According to the commentary, power over materials means that the bodhisattva can adorn many worlds.

n.1020According to the commentary, power over devotion means that the bodhisattva can see all worlds filled with buddhas.

n.1021According to the commentary, power over aspiration means that the bodhisattva can choose the time and world of his buddhahood.

n.1022According to the commentary, power over miracles means that the bodhisattva can manifest every kind of miracle.

n.1023According to the commentary, power over birth means that the bodhisattva can manifest taking birth in every world.

n.1024According to the commentary, power over Dharma means that the bodhisattva can teach every kind of Dharma.

n.1025According to the commentary, power over mind means that the bodhisattva is able to remain in countless samādhis.

n.1026According to the commentary, power over wisdom means that the bodhisattva can without fear teach the understanding of all the strengths of the Buddha. This verse is not in any of the Sanskrit sources, or in the Chinese, but is glossed in the commentary.

n.1027This verse is absent in the Chinese.

n.1028According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit: “He obtains the highest happiness, the happiness of dhyāna, the noble happiness.” Chinese: “nirvāṇa.”

n.1029According to the Sanskrit akhila (“complete,” “without a gap”) and the Yongle and Peking Kangyurs dag (“pure,” “correct”). Other Kangyurs have dge (“virtuous”).

n.1030Chinese: “restrain the sense faculties.”

n.1031According to the Tibetan and the Shastri manuscript priyabhaṇi. Other Sanskrit manuscripts: priyavāṇi.

n.1032The Sanskrit and Chinese add “and truthfully.”

n.1033Chinese: “pride.”

n.1034Chinese: “patient,” and also “they remain honest, avoid sharp language, and are lovable.”

n.1035This verse is expanded into two in the Chinese.

n.1036“Like a kinnara’s song” does not appear in the Chinese.

n.1037Chinese: “Their voice is like five hundred kinds of pleasant sounds,” 亦如五百美妙音 (yi ru wu bai mei miao yin).

n.1038Chinese: “Their fame spreads into numerous worlds,” 名聞遍彰諸世間 (min wen pian zhang zhu shi jian).

n.1039This verse is in the Tibetan, and referred to in the commentary. It is in the Shastri and Hodgson manuscripts, but does not appear in the Gilgit or Chinese.

n.1040Chinese: “they have wisdom and miraculous power,” 智慧及神足 (zhi hui ji shen zu).

n.1041According to the Sanskrit and the commentary. The Tibetan in all Kangyurs has gzugs in error for gzungs.

n.1042Chinese: “they know dhāraṇīs and have reached the other shore” (or “the way to reach the other shore”), 總持到彼岸 (zong chi dao bi an).

n.1043Chinese: “They know how to cure kleśas.”

n.1044Chinese: “they are skilled in removing poisonous arrows.”

n.1045The Sanskrit adds: “and a jina.” This verse does not appear in the Chinese.

n.1046This verse does not appear in the Chinese, which has another verse about the quality of non-attachment and being worthy of offering.

n.1047Chinese: “the skandhas are empty in nature.”

n.1048Chinese: “lions.”

n.1049Chinese: “The strength of their patience is as vast as Mt. Meru.”

n.1050The Degé and other Kangyurs of the tshal pa group have the verb of this sentence as mi gtong (“not letting go”), which would not make much sense. The Stok Palace Kangyur has mi mthong (“not seeing”), closer to the sense of the Sanskrit and the commentary.

n.1051In the Chinese this verse is followed by an additional verse concerning knowing the three times and the three realms.

n.1052These are, according to the commentary, the four retentions ( dhāraṇīs ), which might mean either of the two sets of four (see glossary). The commentary has gzugs (“forms,” or “bodies”) in error for gzungs.

n.1053The Sanskrit has “ten million māras.” This verse is present in the Tibetan, and the Shastri and Hodgson manuscripts, but absent in the Gilgit and Chinese.

n.1054This verse is present in the Tibetan, and the Shastri and Hodgson manuscripts, but absent in the Gilgit and Chinese.

n.1055Conclusion of fascicle 6 in the Chinese.

n.1056According to the Tibetan byi dor bya ba yongs su sbyang ba. The Sanskrit pari­karma­dhāraya could be translated as “maintaining or gaining the preparation for.”

n.1057This paragraph is in a simpler form in the Gilgit and Chinese.

n.1058See also n.­934.

n.1059According to the main classical meaning of vivekadarśana and its description and translation, or gloss, in the commentary as de bzhin nyid mthong ba. The Tibetan translates according to its alternate meaning of “separation,” dben pa.

n.1060The five “aggregates” mentioned here are the “five undefiled aggregates” (Tibetan zag med kyi phung po lnga, known in Sanskrit according to Mahāvyutpatti 103 as the “five aggregates of those equal to the unequaled ones,” asamasama­pañca­skandhaḥ). See glossary under “aggregate of correct conduct.” The Gilgit manuscript adds here “insight into the empty nature of all phenomena,” which is absent in the later Sanskrit manuscripts and the Tibetan.

n.1061According to the Tibetan of the commentary, the Sanskrit, and the Chinese. The Tibetan of the sūtra has “emptiness.”

n.1062According to the Sanskrit na durlabhāḥ and the Chinese. The Tibetan has dkon ma yin (“are not rare”), perhaps in a scribal error of dkon for dka’.

n.1063There is a play on words here that is lost in translation, as phenomena and the Buddha’s teaching are both called “dharma.” The commentary explains that this is because the nature of phenomena (dharmatā) is such that no phenomenon ever transcends its nature of emptiness.

n.1064This verse does not appear in the Chinese.

n.1065According the commentary and the Sanskrit yāvanta. The Tibetan ’jig rten (“worldly”) in the sūtra may be a translation of a corruption in a Sanskrit manuscript. Chinese: “various.”

n.1066According to the commentary, the Sanskrit, and the Chinese. The sūtra’s Tibetan has sangs rgyas sgra (“the word buddha”), perhaps translating from buddhaśabda in error for buddhadharma. Also, throughout this passage, Dharma is in the plural, meaning “the numerous Dharma teachings,” though rendered here into English as singular.

n.1067The Gilgit manuscript has a verse 26 (anāsravā hi te dharmā […] nena ucyanti hi / stṛtā aparyāpannā daśadiśe eṣā buddhan deśanā) that does not appear in the Hodgson, Shastri or Tibetan, but is present in the Chinese.

n.1068According to the Sanskrit pratibhāsa, the commentary, and the Chinese. The Tibetan here has mig yor (“mirages” or “optical illusions,” as defined by the tshig mdzod chen mo), another meaning of pratibhāsa, and the Mahāvyupatti gives mig yor as the equivalent, while gzugs brnyan (“reflection”) is given as the equivalent of pratibimba. Pratibhāsa and pratibimba both appear in the same list of types of illusory appearances, where pratibhāsa evidently does not mean “reflection.” The etymology of mig yor makes it unlikely that the Tibetan translator intended it to mean “reflection.”

n.1069I.e., rūpakāya (“form body”).

n.1070Here the word for “body” in Sanskrit is vigraha and not kaya. The Tibetan translates as lus gzugs (“body-form”). Chinese: “shapes and forms / images,” 形像 (xing xiang). The Sanskrit vigraha is variably translated as “images,” “shapes,” “body,” and so on.

n.1071The plural forms of dharmakāya and buddha are in accordance with the Sanskrit. The Tibetan and Chinese could be either singular or plural.

n.1072The Gilgit manuscript has a verse 34 (aprāpti [prāpti] nirdiṣṭā sattvānāṃ jñātva āśayam / yo sandhābhāṣyottarate na so kena vihanyate) that does not appear in the Hodgson, Shastri, or Tibetan. It is present in the Chinese.

n.1073According to the Sanskrit and Chinese. The Tibetan has the synonym rgyal ba’i sras ( jinaputra ).

n.1074The Chinese has simply “no attachment.”

n.1075Intentional change from singular to plural.

n.1076According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit and Chinese: “practiced by all the buddhas.”

n.1077According to the Tibetan. Not present in the Sanskrit or Chinese.

n.1078According to the Tibetan and the Shastri and Hodgson manuscripts. According to the Gilgit manuscript and the Chinese it would be “And they attain the highest enlightenment.”

n.1079According to the Sanskrit vṛkṣa and the Chinese “marvelous trees,” 復化作妙樹 (fu hu zuo miao shu). The Tibetan has zhing (“realm”), which appears to be a scribal corruption of shing (“tree”), though a translation from a manuscript corruption to kṣetra is possible.

n.1080According to the Sanskrit saharṣika, which is an obscure term, but presumably adjectival from saharṣa (“delight”). The Tibetan translates as pu shu bcas, (“having harṣa” which would still seem to mean “having delight”) with pu shu meaning “the water gutter” usually, but can mean “balcony” or “upper level.” The Chinese has no adjective.

n.1081Sanskrit vimāna. This term, while it can generally mean “a palace” may refer, as it seems to here, to a particular architectural style. Vimāna is a South Indian term (South Indian terminology appearing to be distinctively present in a number of sūtras), with the northern equivalent being śikhara. It means “a tapering tower with progressively smaller stories of pavilions.”

n.1082According to the Sanskrit puṣkariṇī. The Tibetan translates simply as “ponds.” The Chinese has literally, “flower ponds,” implying, as does the Sanskrit, “lotuses.”

n.1083According to the Tibetan and the Shastri and Hodgson manuscripts (upalambhika). The Gilgit and Chinese have tīrthikas .

n.1084This verse is in the Tibetan and the later Sanskrit manuscripts, but not in the Gilgit. However, it is present in the Chinese.

n.1085This verse does not appear in the Chinese.

n.1086According to the Sanskrit. Tibetan: “That which is a concept is taught.”

n.1087According to the Gilgit, Chinese, and the Shastri manuscript. The Hodgson manuscript has “The nature of conceptions is wisdom” (with jñāna in error for jñāta); the Tibetan translates accordingly.

n.1088According to the Tibetan, the Hodgson manuscript, the Vaidya edition, and the Chinese. The Gilgit and Shastri manuscript do not have the negative na but have ca (“and”) instead.

n.1089Chinese: 不寂者是想 (bu ji zhe shi xiang), “Conceptions are detachment”; 寂滅者是智 (ji mie zhe shi zhi), “Detachment is wisdom.” 若知想自性 (ruo zhi xiang zi xing), “If one knows the nature of conception,” 便離於諸想 (bian li yu zhu xiang), “Then he is free from conceptions.”

n.1090Chinese: 名心盡法者 (ming xin jin fa zhe), “[though] the name and thought of cessation exist,” 盡中本無智 (jin zhong ben wu zhi), “there is no wisdom in [that] cessation.”

n.1091According to the Tibetan sgra shes pa. The Sanskrit and Chinese have “knowledge of a level” ( bhūmi ; 地).

n.1092According to the Tibetan and the Hodgson manuscript, which has saṃvṛti (“conventional” or “relative”). According to the Gilgit and Shastri, it is nirvṛti (extinction).

n.1093According to the Tibetan dmigs pa med, and the Shastri manuscript nirālambhā. The Gilgit and Hodgson have nirābhogā, which in BHS means “without desire.” Chinese: “naturally free of defilements.”

n.1094This line is missing in the Degé. The Chinese has “having faith in the teaching of the Buddha,” 於佛語決定 (yu fo yu jue ding).

n.1095This verse is followed by an additional verse in the Chinese that is absent in all Sanskrit versions and the Tibetan.

n.1096According to the Tibetan and the later Sanskrit manuscripts. The Gilgit has, “They roar the lion’s roar, / The inconceivable roar of the buddhas.”

n.1097According to the Tibetan mtha’ yas. The Sanskrit analpa and the Chinese 無量 (wu liang) mean “a great number,” or “a multitude.”

n.1098According to the Tibetan and the Shastri manuscript. The Gilgit, Hodgson, and Chinese have “domain of the bodhisattvas.”

n.1099According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit (atuliyanāyakānāṃ) could mean “offerings to the unequaled guides.” Chinese: “buddhas” 佛 (fo).

n.1100According to the Tibetan and Chinese. “Teaching” does not appear in the Sanskrit.

n.1101According to the Tibetan and the commentary’s explanation. The Sanskrit and Chinese have “stainless” (vimala; 無垢, wu gou ). The Tibetan has rgya che (“vast”) perhaps translating from a corruption in a Sanskrit manuscript from vimala to vipulya.

n.1102According to the commentary, this means that one cannot color with thoughts the mind that is in the nondual state of the samādhi.

n.1103Chinese: “ten.”

n.1104According to the Tibetan ma chags. Sanskrit: anopalipta (“undefiled”); Chinese: “undefiled by the world.”

n.1105This verse does not appear in the Chinese,

n.1106According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit: “will never dwell in…”

n.1107The Chinese has a different version of the second half of this verse: “No beings in the three existences are comparable to them. / Only buddhas of the three existences are their equals.”

n.1108According to the commentary this is referring, of the three realms, to the desire realm and the form realm, with the formless realm implied. Chinese: “rebirth in the gods’ realm,” 生天 (sheng tian).

n.1109According to the Sanskrit svarga. The Tibetan has rgyal srid (“kingdom”), which from the context may be a translation of a corruption to rājya.

n.1110According to the Tibetan spos. Sanskrit: saṃga (“meeting”).

n.1111The following six verses are not present in the Gilgit manuscript or the Chinese.

n.1112According to the Tibetan and the Chinese.

n.1113Referring to the contemplation of that which is unpleasant. Chinese: “the unpleasantness of one’s own body.”

n.1114Chinese: “born in the most excellent, wealthy, and prominent family,” 最勝賢善豪貴家 (zui sheng xian shan hao gui jia).

n.1115According to the Sanskrit bahujana. Tibetan: g.yogs bran (“servants and slaves”). Chinese: “live in abundance with great wealth and extensive retinues,” 資生眷屬悉豐備 (zi sheng juan shu xi feng man).

n.1116The Tibetan adds “and cowries.” Cowrie shells were used as currency in ancient India. Chinese: “abundant silver, gold, and all kinds of treasures / precious jewels,” 豐饒金銀具眾寶 (feng rao jin yin ju zhong bao).”

n.1117According to the Tibetan. Hodgson manuscript: “And turn the Dharma wheel in thousands of buddha realms.” The Sanskrit could be interpreted as “unequaled buddha realms.” “Buddha realms” does not appear in the Chinese.

n.1118Verse 205 is not present in the Tibetan. Sanskrit: “Unending, numerous hundreds of thousands of millions of beings / Who there hear of the roots of merit, / will also attain the highest aspiration to enlightenment / when the Jina, the great being, teaches the bodhisattva.” Chinese: “…teaches one bodhisattva.”

n.1119The singular is in accordance with the Sanskrit. The Tibetan has the plural. The Chinese indicates neither.

n.1120The Chinese does not mention Māra ’s army, but has “subdues māras” (in the plural).

n.1121According to the Sanskrit sattvā vijānanti and the Chinese. The Tibetan has presumably read it as sattvā-avijānanti, which includes the negative, and translates it “all beings do not know this.”

n.1122There is a play on words here, as the Sanskrit for “phenomena” is “dharma” and the teaching given by a Buddha is also “Dharma;” also, the word “understood” here is budhyate.

n.1123According to the BHS gatiṃgata, and the Chinese. Gatiṃgata is not translated consistently into Tibetan. Previously it was translated as rtogs pa khong du chud, and here its two elements are split up into ’gro ba and shes pa (“knowing states of existence”). There is here as elsewhere a play on words in using both gati (“state of existence”) and gatiṃgata (“complete understanding”).

n.1124According to the Sanskrit sarvasya māyā. Hodgson: sarvepy māyā. The Tibetan appears to have been translated from a text that read as sarvasyāpāyā, translating as ngan song thams cad (“all lower realms”), which does not appear to fit the context. The Chinese has “lower realms” instead of “illusions” and reverses the order of the lines: “He is free from lower realms / And knows the characteristics of all dharma / phenomena,” 遠離於惡道，能知諸法相 (yuan li yu e dao, neng zhi zhu fa xiang).

n.1125According to the Tibetan, and the Hodgson and Shastri manuscripts. This verse does not appear in the Gilgit manuscript or the Chinese.

n.1126According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit and Chinese have “These teachers of the Dharma.”

n.1127Chinese: “Go to various worlds to benefit beings.”

n.1128This verse is followed by an additional verse in the Chinese.

n.1129According to the Sanskrit and Chinese. The Tibetan has “main and intermediate directions.”

n.1130According to the Sanskrit, taking prāsāda as the first part of a bahuvrīhi compound. The Tibetan translates as khang pa (“house”), which appears to be the meaning of prāsāda in verse 74 (the Tibetan khang pa is translated as “mansions”). The Chinese translation conforms with ideas of Chinese architecture.

n.1131According to the Sanskrit harmya, which is usually translated into Tibetan as bsil khang (“cool room”) as it is designed to benefit from both shade and breeze. Here the Tibetan translates it as pu shu, which in verse 74 was used to translate saharṣika.

n.1132According to the Sanskrit. Translated here as stegs bu, which can mean “a turret,” although according to the Mahāvyupatti it should be ba gam, which has a range of meanings from “dome” to “tower.”

n.1133According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan here has “and incense in censers,” which appears to be a corruption brought in from the first line of the next verse. The Chinese has 香瓶 (xiang pin) “and so on,” which could be interpreted as “incense and vases” or “vases of fragrances.”

n.1134According to the Gilgit gandhena. The Hodgson is corrupted and the Shastri has dhūpena in agreement with the Tibetan bdugs pa, repeating “incense.”

n.1135According to the Tibetan, Hodgson, and Shastri. Gilgit: “spreads to the summit of the sky.” The Chinese translation is roughly “spread out [to] the beautiful platform of clouds,” and therefore corresponds more to the Gilgit version.

n.1136Literally, “a thousand ten-million,” which would be “ten billion.” The translation here follows the spirit of a poetic description of a great number rather than a mathematically precise enumeration of realms. Chinese: 千世界, literally, “one thousand worlds.”

n.1137Could also be translated as “thorn,” as in the Chinese.

n.1138According to the Tibetan and BHS doṣaśalya (“the pain of faults / wickedness”). The BHS doṣa is the equivalent of the Classical Sanskrit dveṣa (“anger”), while doṣa in Classical Sanskrit means “fault” or “wickedness.” The Tibetan appears to have been translating from tṛṣna or perhaps chanda instead of śalya. The Chinese has “the kleśa of anger.”

n.1139According to the Sanskrit mohajālaṃ and the Chinese. The Tibetan appears to have translated from a manuscript that had mahājālam (“great net”).

n.1140The number of seats in Chinese is 億 (yi), which can mean a wide range of numbers, but many scholars simply interpret the term as an expression of “numerous.”

n.1141The specific number of ten million cannot be intended here, because there would not be enough cloths for the seats!

n.1142There is considerable variation between the Gilgit (which does not have in this verse the words “beautiful seats,” but only their descriptions), the Shastri, and the Hodgson (though they both agree in also having parasols as an adornment, which is absent in the Tibetan). The Tibetan is closest to the Hodgson, though the Tibetan translation has literally, “cloths adorned by the lattices of jewels,” and omits the parasols.

n.1143According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan does not have the word “seats,” which appears instead in the previous verse.

n.1144The Sanskrit has “pure uragasāra .”

n.1145According to the Sanskrit daṇḍa. The Tibetan translates as yan lag (“branches”).

n.1146The Sanskrit pañjara usually means “an enclosing cage.” The Tibetan has khog pa, which means “interior.” However, the leaves are the part of the lotus that is usually described in this way, and pañjara may be an early corruption in the text, perhaps of palāśa.

n.1147Sanskrit: girigarbha, (“mountain essence”). Tibetan: dpal gyi snying po can (“glorious essence”). The Hodgson has sirigarbha, which is a corruption. The Tibetan appears to have translated from śrīgarbha. This appears to be a synonym for aśmagarbha (“stone-essence”), which is an emerald. The commentary repeats ’dab ma, though this can mean “leaves” as well as “petals.” Compare with the Ten Bhūmi Sūtra in which a lotus has a beryl stem, a pericarp of sandalwood, emerald stamens, and leaves of gold. The Chinese has “stems and leaves of crystal, and stamens of gold.”

n.1148Absent in the Gilgit, Shastri, Hodgson, and Tibetan. The Chinese has a combination of this and the following verse.

n.1149According to the Tibetan and the Shastri and Hodgson manuscripts. The Gilgit has śakunta (“jays”).

n.1150According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit has “unsurpassable,” as in the preceding and following verses.

n.1151Three verses here (this one and the following two) are absent in the Gilgit manuscript and the Chinese, but present in the Shastri and Hodgson manuscripts, and the Tibetan.

n.1152This verse is followed in the Chinese by an additional verse summarizing the marvelous decorations and sights.

n.1153This verse is followed in the Chinese by an additional verse stating that these decorations are blessings from the Buddha to benefit beings.

n.1154Chinese: “grasping.”

n.1155According to the Tibetan and the Hodgson manuscript.

n.1156This verse is followed by an additional verse in the Chinese that reiterates that there should be no doubt and that strong faith will surely lead to rebirth in Sukhāvatī.

n.1157According to the Tibetan, Hodgson, and Shastri. The Gilgit has “this supreme realm.”

n.1158This verse is expanded into two verses in the Chinese.

n.1159Chinese: “pure conduct.”

n.1160According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit has “practitioners who are Dharma protectors.” In the Chinese, “in later times” is absent and this verse is followed by six additional verses.

n.1161In the Gilgit manuscript, the prose is absent from this point until “Young man, in the past…” (34.­7).

n.1162In the Chinese the prose up to this point is absent.

n.1163According to the Sanskrit and Chinese. The Tibetan appears to translate as “more innumerable than innumerable.”

n.1164The Chinese has three synonymous phrases.

n.1165The Chinese refers to him in this chapter as “bhikṣu.”

n.1166Chinese: “he composed melodious verses on…”

n.1167According to the Sanskrit saṃgīti. The Tibetan rol mo usually means “music.” In the Chinese, “The apsarases engaged in singing divine songs” is absent.

n.1168According to the Sanskrit; absent in the Tibetan.

n.1169The Sanskrit here is specifically in the dual form hastau, meaning both hands, although the preceding prose specifies his right hand only. The Tibetan and Chinese have no specific plural form and so could be read as singular. This appears to be an instance of inconsistency revealing the different authorship of verses and prose. For consistency in English the singular of “hand” is used here.

n.1170According to the Sanskrit pūti, the Chinese, and the commentary rul pa. In the Tibetan version of the sūtra there is a scribal corruption of rul pa (“rotten”) to rus pa (“bones”).

n.1171The Chinese has some variation in the preceding two verses and they are followed by an additional verse.

n.1172According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan and Chinese omit “sandalwood.” The Chinese has “incense.”

n.1173In the Chinese this verse is followed by an additional verse.

n.1174Sanskrit: kinnaras, apsarases, and mahoragas.

n.1175Chinese: “All became men.”

n.1176According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan associates “all” with “worlds.” The Chinese does not indicate singular or plural.

n.1177According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit has saṃlekhaguṇa (“the qualities / disciplines of austerity”).

n.1178In the Chinese, at this point fascicle 7 comes to an end in the Taisho edition, and fascicle 8 in the Song, Yuan, Ming, Gong, and Sheng editions.

n.1179From the Sanskrit avaropayāmi. The Tibetan is bskyed (“generate,” “create”).

n.1180The Chinese version of this sentence differs.

n.1181From the Sanskrit aśāṭhyena (literally “without craftiness”) and the Chinese. The Tibetan translation g.yo ba med pa could otherwise be understood as meaning “unwaveringly.”

n.1182According to the Sanskrit sevitavyā bhjitavyāḥ.

n.1183According to the Sanskrit and the commentary, which mentions correct conduct. The Tibetan omits the qualifying characteristics, which obscures the meaning. “Good qualities and wisdom” does not appear in the Chinese.

n.1184According to the Sanskrit visaradena. Translated into Tibetan as g.yo ba med pa.

n.1185According to the BHS (īrya), the commentary (spyod lam), and the Chinese 威儀. In the Tibetan of the sūtra it is translated as g.yo ba (“movement,” “wandering”), which is one meaning of īrya but does not fit the context well.

n.1186The Sanskrit and Chinese have here the additional sentence, “He was wise in certainty in meaning,” which is absent in the Tibetan version of the sūtra and the commentary.

n.1187Tibetan: gsong por smra. The BHS has pūrvabhilāpī (“respectfully”). In Sanskrit this is followed by, “He had a smiling face,” which is absent in the Tibetan but incorporated to make a single sentence in the Chinese.

n.1188According to the Sanskrit and the commentary. The Tibetan here has “blood and flesh,” which does not appear to fit the context. Chinese: “fresh blood of a young virgin.”

n.1189According to the Sanskrit ācārya and the Tibetan of the commentary slob dpon. The Tibetan has ’phags pa (“noble one”), which appears to be translated from a corruption of cācāryam (“and the ācārya”) to cāryam (“and the ārya”). Chinese: “She went to the king who then called the sick bhikṣu into the palace. He was seated in front of the king…”

n.1190According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan omits the negative, and gang could be misunderstood as a personal pronoun rather than the interrogative.

n.1191According to the Tibetan, which specifies “red sandalwood” for candana, and translates kālānusārī literally as ’dus brang (“following time”). The Chinese has simply “sandalwood.”

n.1192This prose section does not appear in the Gilgit, Sanskrit, or Chinese, but is present in the Tibetan, and in the Hodgson and Shastri.

n.1193The BHS sugatāna putrakāḥ appears to be specifically male as “sons of the sugatas,” although putra can be taken in the more general sense of “child.” The Tibetan translates as byang chub sems mo, specifically meaning a female bodhisattva, which accords with the use of the female personal pronoun, but although the female pronoun is used she is also described as having become irreversibly male.

n.1194Translated into Tibetan in the sūtra and commentary as mar me mdzad, and therefore this may have been from a text that had dīpaṃkara instead of dīpaprabha , although that would be in contradiction with the standard account of Buddha Śākyamuni’s previous life as a student of Dīpaṃkara.

n.1195This verse is in the Tibetan, the commentary, and the Shastri and Hodgson manuscripts, but absent in the Gilgit manuscript and the Chinese.

n.1196According to the Tibetan and the BHS doṣa, which is the equivalent of the Classical Sanskrit dveṣa (“anger”), while the Classical Sanskrit doṣa means “fault” or “wickedness.” Chinese: “anger and pride,” though doṣa has been translated variably as “faults, pride, and anger.”

n.1197These last three sentences are absent in the Gilgit manuscript and the Chinese.

n.1198The Sanskrit has the obscure vitardda, while the Mahāvyutpatti gives vitardi and vedika as the corollary of the Tibetan stegs bu. A vedika is a raised platform, usually with a railing, around a building or stūpa.

n.1199The Sanskrit niryūha, which the Mahāvyutpatti defines as sgo khang or ba gam according to context, is translated here as sgo khang.

n.1200Sanskrit: toraṇa. Tibetan: rta babs. The name of the outer gateways for entering a courtyard, it was also an ornamental form above the doorways of a building.

n.1201Sanskrit: gavakṣa. Tibetan: skar khung. Literally, “ox-eye.” This does not refer to the modern glass windows, but rather apertures, usually round, for the breeze or wind to pass through.

n.1202Sanskrit: harmya. Tibetan: pu shu. The Tibetan has various meanings, such as “rainwater spouts,” but here probably means “the pavilion or upper room in a palace, open to cool breezes.”

n.1203Sanskrit: kūṭāgāra. Tibetan: khang pa brtsegs pa. Here this means, not a building that has a tower, but the tower itself. Here the Tibetan has khang pa, “twice,” without an equivalent in Sanskrit, therefore probably a scribal error. Otherwise, according to the Mahāvyutpatti, khang pa could be a translation of kuṭikā, which could mean “a belvedere.”

n.1204The description of the king and his palace does not appear in the Gilgit manuscript or the Chinese.

n.1205According to the commentary. The sūtra translation omits “water.”

n.1206According to the Sanskrit siddha-vidyādhara… and the commentary (grub pa dang rig pa ’dzin pa dang). The Tibetan of the sūtra has grub pa’i rig sngags ’chang.

n.1207According to the Sanskrit. Omitted in the Tibetan.

n.1208According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan omits translating kiṃ, or has lost the word in ci in skyes bu’am ci (literally, “person or what?”) in a scribal omission, leaving only skyes bu’am (“person and”).

n.1209According to the Sankrit. The Tibetan omits “It was inhabited by flocks of birds.” The commentary mentions them.

n.1210The entire description of the forest does not appear in the Gilgit manuscript or the Chinese.

n.1211According to the Sanskrit rājaputrāḥ. Literally, “king-sons.” The Tibetan translates as just “king,” omitting “sons.” The translation of the commentary also has just “king.”

n.1212According to the Tibetan. Not present in the Sanskrit or the commentary.

n.1213This paragraph is absent in the Chinese.

n.1214Verses 6 to 14 in the Sanskrit have longer lines than the others, and each four-line verse in Sanskrit was therefore translated into eight lines of Tibetan. This English translation maintains the Tibetan verse structure, although the numbering (as elsewhere) is from the Sanskrit.

n.1215According to the Sanskrit gandha and the Chinese. However, the Tibetan has sgra (“sound”) instead, which does not fit the context.

n.1216According to the Sanskrit. Chinese: “ministers,” 大臣 (da chen).

n.1217According to the Sanskrit and the commentary. The Tibetan numbering in the sūtra translation appears to be in disarray. Chinese: “36 yi,” 三十六億 (xan shi liu yi), which can be 360,000, or 36 million, or 360 million.

n.1218According to the Sanskrit pṛṣṭhaḥ samanubaddhāni, and the Chinese.

n.1219According to the Sanskrit doṣa and the Chinese. The Tibetan translation has dveṣa (“anger”), which seems to be an obvious error for this sentence.

n.1220See the preceding note. The Chinese switches to “bondage,” 結縛 (jie fu).

n.1221According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit could be translated as: “The unequaled buddha heroes, dedicated to beings, / The heroes of the past, disseminated the supreme Dharma. / They will also appear in that way in future times. / Thereby, the son has gained the power of a king of the Dharma.”

n.1222Gilgit: “strings of pearls.” Chinese: “jewels strung as long necklaces.” Includes the word 珠 (zhu), which can mean “pearls” or “pearl-shaped jewels.”

n.1223Verses 29 to 33 in the Sanskrit have longer lines than the others, and each four-line verse in Sanskrit was therefore translated into eight lines of Tibetan. This English translation maintains the Tibetan verse structure, although the numbering (as elsewhere) is from the Sanskrit.

n.1224The original assumes that the reader will know this refers to silver coins, the raupya‍—the origin of the present day rupee, which was itself tied to the value of silver until the end of the nineteenth century.

n.1225This verse has an extra line in the Sanskrit (two extra lines in the Tibetan format) and here both the Hodgson and Shastri have an additional verse of offerings that is not present in the Tibetan, Gilgit manuscript, or the Chinese.

n.1226According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit: “vajras.”

n.1227The Tibetan has nang las byung ba (“emerged from”) and the Sanskrit has antargata (“entered”), though in both cases the other verb is implied.

n.1228This paragraph does not appear in the Chinese.

n.1229According to the Sanskrit. Absent in the Tibetan.

n.1230This paragraph does not appear in the Gilgit manuscript.

n.1231The Chinese does not mention what the crowd saw.

n.1232According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit and Chinese: “eighty-four thousand.”

n.1233According to the Tibetan. Not present in the Sanskrit or Chinese.

n.1234The first two lines are divided into four in the Tibetan. This line does not appear in the Chinese.

n.1235This verse does not appear in the Gilgit manuscript, but is present in the Chinese.

n.1236According to the Tibetan, “Made joyous by the bhikṣu …”

n.1237Chinese: “They all loved and sympathized with the bhikṣu.”

n.1238From the Sanskrit suduṣṭa. The Vaidya online edition has sudṛṣṭa.

n.1239Chinese: “At that time, driven by anger, I ordered someone to kill him.” 我時瞋心遣令殺 (wo shi chen xin qian ling sha).

n.1240The commentary explains that as the bhikṣu’s body parts are not decomposing, the king believes him to still be alive and able to return to his former condition.

n.1241According to the Sanskrit adoṣaduṣṭa, and in accordance with the commentary. The Tibetan has zhe sdang gtum med pa (“neither anger nor wrath”), translating in accordance with the BHS meaning of the phrase, which does not seem to fit the context here. There is a different verse here in the Chinese.

n.1242This verse does not appear in the Chinese.

n.1243This verse does not appear in the Chinese.

n.1244This verse is in the Tibetan, the commentary and the Hodgson manuscript. It is absent in the Gilgit, Chinese, and Shastri.

n.1245According to the Sanskrit sūrata and the Chinese 善調柔 (shan tiao rou); the Tibetan has nges in error for des.

n.1246The Tibetan divides the Sanskrit four-line verses into eight-line verses from verses 63 to 65.

n.1247According to the Sanskrit and Chinese; “tastes” has been omitted in Tibetan.

n.1248The Tibetan and Chinese again divide the Sanskrit four-line verses into eight-line verses from verses 67 to 69.

n.1249According to the commentary and the Sanskrit. The Kangyur has gnas (“places”), probably being translated from a scribal corruption of bhārya.

n.1250This fourth line is according to the Tibetan, Chinese, Hodgson, and Shastri.

n.1251This is according to the Gilgit manuscript. The addition of the line, “The bodhisattvas established in retention,” in the later versions creates an unequal number of lines in the verses. The extra line is in the Chinese, while retaining a four-line format.

n.1252According to the Gilgit manuscript. Following later versions, this line would be in the next verse, where it clearly does not belong. Does not appear in the Chinese.

n.1253The Chinese makes this a verse on the “three poisons” by speaking of anger in the third line instead of stupidity: 非非貪想非貪想 (fei fei tan xiang), 非非瞋想非瞋想 (fei fei chen xiang fei chen xiang), 非非癡想非癡想 (fei fei chi xiang fei chi xiang). In Chinese Buddhist literature, the word 癡 (chi) can mean either “stupidity” (as in 愚痴, yu chi) or “ignorance” (無明, wu ming, literally “not clear,” “not knowing”) or both. However, when refering to the “three poisons” 三毒 (san du), the word 癡 (chi) is used.

n.1254This verse does not appear in the Gilgit or Chinese.

n.1255The Tibetan and Chinese divide the Sanskrit four-line verses 78 and 79 into eight-line verses. This verse marks the end of fascicle 8 of the Taisho editon and fascicle 9 of the Song, Yuan, Ming, Gong, and Sheng editions.

n.1256The verse literally says, “avoid both of those,” referring back to the verse on attachment and anger.

n.1257This paragraph and the following ten verses, along with the prose paragraph they include, do not appear in the Gilgit or the Chinese.

n.1258The Sanskrit is literally, pratyekajina.

n.1259According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit has mṛtyu (“death”) instead of māra. Probably a scribal corruption in the Sanskrit, or perhaps a free translation, since Mṛtyu can also mean Yama, the lord of death, and by extension Māra .

n.1260According to the BHS karvaṭaka, which is equivalent to the Sanskrit karvaṭa. They are defined as being the central administrative town for two to four hundred villages. It is also said to mean “a mountain village,” though that is not the meaning here. However, the Tibetan translation ri khrod means just “mountains,” which does not fit the context.

n.1261This paragraph does not appear in the Gilgit or the Chinese.

n.1262This sentence is simpler in the Gilgit and Chinese. Fascicle 9 in the Taisho edition, and fascicle 10 in the Song, Yuan, Ming, Gong and Sheng editions, begin here.

n.1263This does not quite match the description of the princesses in palanquins, and simply “maidens” pulling the chariot, as given in the prose, perhaps indicative of different origins for these passages. Chinese: “Their chariots are completely covered in nets of gold,” 金網彌覆於車上 (jin wang mi fu yu che / ju shang).

n.1264This verse is followed by an additional verse in the Chinese in which the sons elaborate on their reasons for refusal.

n.1265According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit has “glorious svastikas and wheels.” This verse not in the Gilgit manuscript, but is present in the Chinese.

n.1266From this point on in the verses, Supuṣpacandra is frequently referred to as Puṣpacandra, and once as Supuṣpa, presumably because of the verse meter. The Tibetan translates all as if they were Supuṣpacandra (me tog zla mdzes, “beautiful flower moon”), although, literally, Puṣpacandra would be me tog zla ba (“flower moon”) and Supuṣpa would be me tog mdzes pa (“beautiful flower”). The Chinese consistently translates the name as 善花月 (shan hua yue), the equivalent of Supuṣpacandra, except for three instances of Puṣpacandra 花月 (hua yue, flower moon). Rather than “beautiful,” it uses the word 善 (shan, “excellent,” “virtuous”) which in the Chinese perception is more befitting and dignified for a dharmabhāṇaka.

n.1267This verse is not in the Gilgit manuscript, but is in the Chinese.

n.1268This paragraph of prose and the subsequent nine verses are not in the Gilgit manuscript or the Chinese.

n.1269According to the Sanskrit siddha-vidyādhara , and to the commentary (grub pa dang rig pa ’dzin pa dang). The sūtra translation has grub pa’i rig sngags ’chang.

n.1270“Lord of birds” (Sanskrit, khagādhipa; Tibetan, bya rgyal) is usually a synonym for garuḍa .

n.1271A group of lions is called a “pride.”

n.1272The Degé here has bde in error for de, as in the Yongle and Peking Kangyurs.

n.1273According to one of the meanings of the Sanskrit sāra, and the commentary. The Tibetan translation of the sūtra has snying po (“essence”).

n.1274This sentence does not appear in the Chinese.

n.1275Sanskrit: hā. Translated into Tibetan in the commentary as ha ha, and in the sūtra as kye ma.

n.1276According to the Tibetan, which presumably translated from a manuscript with āścarya. The Shastri and Hodgson have ācārya (“master,” “spiritual teacher”).

n.1277This and the twenty-six verses that follow are not in the Gilgit manuscript or the Chinese.

n.1278The Sanskrit has also kinnaras .

n.1279According to the Sanskrit vihvala. The Tibetan translation has mi dran (“without memory”).

n.1280According to the Tibetan and the commentary. Sanskrit: “In a pure body come and teach beings.”

n.1281According to the Sanskrit bho bho. The Tibetan translates as kye ma and kye kye. The commentary explains that this is an exclamation to keep someone’s attention.

n.1282According to the Sanskrit and the commentary. The sūtra in Tibetan has a scribal corruption of gzungs to gzugs.

n.1283The four-line verses from 14 to 27 in the Sanskrit are each made into eight-line verses in the Tibetan.

n.1284The Degé has bcu (“ten”) in error for dang, which is in most Kangyurs. The Tibetan appears to have translated from a manuscript with bala (“strength”), while present manuscripts have vara (“supreme”).

n.1285According to the Tibetan, which may have translated from a text that had vīrāya (“heroism”), or vīrayā (“heroically”), or less likely vīrya (“heroism”), or vira (“hero”). The Sanskrit has virajā (“stainless one”).

n.1286According to the Sanskrit tṛṣṇāya and the Yongle and Peking sred pas. Other Kangyurs have srid pas (“by existence”).

n.1287According to the Sanskrit. Another variation of the shorter form of Supuṣpacandra.

n.1288These lines are actually from verse xxi, but in the Tibetan and in this translation have been moved forward to make the passage more readable in these languages.

n.1289In the Tibetan, this line is erroneously repeated in a slightly different translation. That repetition has been avoided here.

n.1290According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit has instead sattvān nātha (“lord of humans”).

n.1291According to the Sanskrit. This line is absent in the Tibetan.

n.1292According to the Sanskrit and the commentary. “Four” is omitted in the translation of the sūtra.

n.1293According to the commentary’s sangs rgyas dang sangs rgyas ma yin pa’i sems can (“buddhas and beings who are not buddhas”). The sūtra translation has the obscure sangs rgyas sangs rgyas sems can (“buddhas, buddhas, beings”). The Sanskrit has buddhaputra-sattva (“bodhisattvas and beings”).

n.1294According to the Sanskrit and the commentary. The Tibetan translation of the sūtra has just “tree.”

n.1295According to the Tibetan; “quickly” is absent in the Sanskrit.

n.1296According to the Sanskrit patitaṃ mṛttikaṃ. The Tibetan has shing bzhin ’gyel (“fallen like a tree”), presumably from a corruption in a Sanskrit manuscript of mṛttikaṃ (“dead”) to vṛkṣaṃ (“tree”).

n.1297According to the Tibetan gnod byed. The Sanskrit has anitya (“transient,” “impermanent”).

n.1298Chinese: “The world is destroyed by desires.”

n.1299According to the Tibetan, which unusually here is in accord with the Gilgit jvara (“fever”) while the Shastri and Hodgson have jala (“net”).

n.1300Chinese: “This fever and anxiety of the body and mind.”

n.1301This is followed by an additional verse in the Chinese.

n.1302The four-line verses from 108 to 115 in Sanskrit are each rendered as eight-line verses in the Tibetan and Chinese.

n.1303This is followed by two additional verses in the Chinese.

n.1304The Gilgit has padmaka (“cherry wood”).

n.1305These two lines translated according to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan has de yi rus pa sgrom ni byas par gyur / dge slong dag gis de yang der bsregs te, interpreting droṇa according to one of its other Sanskrit meanings of “bucket,” as sgrom (“box”) and seeming to mean that the bhikṣus then burned the relics, which is surely not the intended meaning; the verb here in the Sanskrit, māpita, meant “measure” or “amount,” as in the Pali equivalent doṇamāpaka. One droṇa is said to be roughly equivalent to 5 liters or 9.5 kilograms, and therefore this is a substantial amount of relics.

n.1306Morning, noon, and evening.

n.1307Chinese: “made offerings three times a day.” This is followed by two additional lines describing the offerings in the Chinese.

n.1308Past, present, and future. Chinese: “To correct all the wrongdoings resulting from stupidity, he confessed in front of the stūpa.”

n.1309The Chinese adds “tirelessly.”

n.1310This line does not appear in the Chinese.

n.1311The text suddenly switches to first-person narrator, the reason for this‍—that the Buddha was King Śūradatta in one of his previous lives‍—having been explained in verse 80 (36.­142) and to be repeated some verses later in verse 119 (36.­224).

n.1312The text reverts briefly to the third-person narration at this point.

n.1313The Gilgit and Chinese have “young man!” (kumāra; 童子, tong zi) instead of “Ānanda.”

n.1314As throughout this translation, the bracketed verse numbers are those of the Sanskrit text; here, the order of the verses in the Tibetan differs and verses 119-120 appear below. In the Chinese, this verse is followed by an additional verse.

n.1315According to the Sanskrit, the Tibetan of the commentary zhi ba’i rgyal po, and the Chinese 寂王佛 (ji wang fo). The Tibetan translation of the sūtra has zhi ba’i rgyal ba, which appears to have been a scribal corruption. A buddha of this name is briefly mentioned elsewhere in the Kangyur.

n.1316This verse does not appear in the Gilgit manuscript or the Chinese.

n.1317This is followed by an additional verse in the Chinese.

n.1318According to the sūtra translation, Chinese, Shastri, and Gilgit susamvṛta. The commentary translates as bsdams (“restrained”), which is in accordance with the Dutt saṃbṛhita.

n.1319The Chinese has: “the bodhisattva is learned in the Dharma, which is like a vast ocean, and has limitless merit.”

n.1320According to the Sanskrit and the commentary. The sūtra translation has “below them.” The Chinese has “comparable.”

n.1321The division of the lines into verses in this passage differs in the Chinese. The last line of this verse is the first of a Chinese verse that has three additional lines not present in the Sanskrit or the Tibetan.

n.1322The Degé has zhing (“realm”) in error for zhi (“peace”).

n.1323Translated according to the Sanskrit śrutasya and the Tibetan thos in the Narthang, Coné, Peking, Lithand and Yongle Kangurs. The Degé, Lhasa, and Stok Palace Kangyurs have stong (“thousand” or “empty”).

n.1324This verse does not appear in the Chinese.

n.1325In the Chinese this verse is followed by a short prose passage.

n.1326From this point to the end of the chapter, each four-line Sanskrit verse is rendered in Tibetan as an eight-line verse.

n.1327According to the Tibetan, presumably translating from a Sanskrit text that read adānta instead of the extant Sanskrit text’s sudānta , according to which this line would be translated as “They are tamed, perfectly tamed, and tamers of beings.”

n.1328According to the Tibetan and the Hodgson. The Gilgit and the Shastri have, “pacified and follow the perfectly pacified.”

n.1329According to the Sanskrit nairyāṇika. The Tibetan has simply ’byung bar ’gyur ba (“arising”).

n.1330According to the Tibetan. The Sanskrit has “wild and intoxicated.”

n.1331This verse is followed by an additional verse in the Chinese.

n.1332The Chinese has, “They are supreme ones, leaders of the three realms.”

n.1333According to the Sanskrit and Chinese. The Tibetan has gsal (“clarity”).

n.1334According to the Sanskrit jātyandha and the Chinese 生盲無所睹 (sheng mang wu suo du). The Tibetan has just “blind.”

n.1335The Chinese has a different verse.

n.1336According to the Tibetan. Sanskrit: “immeasurable.”

n.1337According to the Sanskrit bahulīkartavya. The Tibetan mang du bya, a regular element in this list elsewhere, is missing here.

n.1338According to the Sanskrit puṇya­balādhipataye and the Tibetan of the commentary bsod nams kyi dbang du gyur pa. The Tibetan translation of the sūtra has bsod nams kyi zhing du gyur pa (“becoming a field of merit”), which from the context appears to be an error.

n.1339The prose up to this point does not appear in the Chinese.

n.1340The Chinese version of this sentence is more detailed.

n.1341According to the Sanskrit abhirata and the Tibetan dga’ zhing of the Narthang, Coné, Peking, and related Kangyurs. The Degé, Lhasa, and Stok Palace have dpa’ zhing (“heroic”), which may be a scribal corruption of dga’ zhing. but could also mean “were heroic” [with the strength of patience].

n.1342In the Chinese the last line of this verse is the first line of a verse with three additional lines. The division into verses of this entire passage differs in the Chinese.

n.1343The Chinese uses the analogies of a wild horse and foam.

n.1344The commentary explains this verse at great length (18 pages in the Degé Tengyur, from F.239.a.1 to F.248.a.3).

n.1345This verse is translated according to the Tibetan and accords with the Chinese.

n.1346The order of this and the preceding verse is reversed in the Chinese.

n.1347Chinese: “because.”

n.1348The order of this and the preceding verse is reversed in the Chinese.

n.1349Chinese: “moon on water.”

n.1350The Chinese uses the name 善花 (shan hua), which translates Supuṣpa, the name of the bhikṣu in chapter 36, which appears to be a scribal error for 善化 (shan hua, Varapuṣpasa). The first character is the same, while the second characters sound very similar; one is “flower” 花 (hua, the first tone), the other one is “tamable” 化 (hua, the fourth tone): “transformation, transformable, teachable, tamed, tamable.” However, both Varapuṣpasa and Supuṣpa have been prophesied to become Maitreya.

n.1351Chinese: “At that time King Supuṣpa (in error for Varapuṣpasa) had a son named …”

n.1352In the Sanskrit, this interjection translated into Tibetan as a la la is actually hūṃ. Hūṃ, though presently associated with seed-syllables and mantras in tantric practice, in this context is clearly an expression of rejoicing. The Chinese has literally, “uttered loud voices and wept aloud.”

n.1353The order of this and the preceding verse is reversed in Chinese.

n.1354The Gilgit has “unblemished correct conduct” instead of “countless Dharma teachings.” The Chinese agrees with the Gilgit, but adds “thought” or “motivation.”

n.1355The Gilgit has “said these words to him” instead of “felt great joy.” Chinese: “even when he went to visit Puṇyamatin.”

n.1356Chinese: “The king…”

n.1357Chinese: “The king…”

n.1358The Sanskrit actually has an alternative version of his name: Maitraka. The Chinese has an alternative name as well, 慈尊 (ci zun), but the Chinese translation does not make a distinction between Maitreya and Maitraka.

n.1359The Chinese has Supuṣpa, 善花 (shan hua).

n.1360According to the BHS padumotturu, and the commentary’s pad ma’i mchog. The Tibetan translation of the sūtra has rkang gnyis gtso bo (“Chief of the two-legged”), perhaps translating from a corruption that included padma (“lotus”) becoming pada (“legs”).

n.1361Chinese: “at the places of the jinas.”

n.1362The Chinese adds: “flowers and incense.”

n.1363The Sanskrit is vihāra, but here with its meaning of huts, forest abodes for renunciants. This is absent in the Chinese.

n.1364According to the Sanskrit udāra and the Chinese. The Tibetan translates this as rgya che (“vast”) according to one of its other meanings.

n.1365Conclusion of fascicle 9, in the Taisho edition.

n.1366According to the commentary, which gives gold as an example. The Sanskrit kāṃsya, which the Tibetan translates as nor (“wealth”), means brass or bell metal, so that the phrase kāṃsya-kūṭa could literally mean “brass-fraud.” Edgerton (p. 175) defines the BHS equivalent kāṃsa-kūṭa as meaning someone who substitutes brass for gold.

n.1367According to the commentary. The Sanskrit karṣaṇa (which could be translated as “dragging”) the Tibetan translates as gzung or omits.

n.1368From the Sanskrit rhodana. The Tibetan omits or translates as gzung (“grasp”).

n.1369From the Sanskrit taḍaṇa. The Tibetan translates as gtse (“harm”).

n.1370According to the Tibetan bsdigs pa.

n.1371The commentary specifies this means “cutting off hands, feet, ears, nose, and so on.”

n.1372According to the Tibetan and Chinese.

n.1373According to the Sanskrit upakleśa and the commentary’s nye ba’i nyon mongs. In the Chinese, instead of the usual translation for the Sanskrit upakleśa as 隨煩惱 (sui fan nao), the Chinese puts another word, “gathering after kleśa,” 煩惱聚 (fan nao ju), which can mean all aspects of kleśa , and will include both major and minor aspects: 遠離一切煩惱聚 (yuan li yi qie fa nao ju).

n.1374This verse does not appear in the Chinese.

n.1375Literally, “elephant king.” The Chinese simply has “the king.”

n.1376Chinese: “The king gained supreme benefits”是王獲得最勝利.

n.1377According to the Sanskrit ṛkṣa and the Chinese. The Tibetan translates as dred.

n.1378According to the Sansrit prārthana. The Tibetan lists “accomplishment” and “aspiration” as separate qualities.

n.1379According to the Sanskrit. Saṃṛddhi was translated into Tibetan as ’byor pa according to alternate meanings such as “wealth.”

n.1380According to the Sanskrit of the Hodgson and Shastri. It is absent in the Gilgit and the Chinese.

n.1381There is an additional first verse in the Chinese.

n.1382This is followed by an additional verse in the Chinese, and another two lines about water flowing from the body.

n.1383This and the other verses with Roman numerals do not appear in the Gilgit manuscript or the Chinese.

n.1384This is followed by an additional verse in the Chinese.

n.1385This paragraph does not appear in the Chinese.

n.1386In the Chinese, in place of this paragraph there is a long prose passage on knowing all views in one instant.

n.1387This verse is in the Hodgson manuscript and the Tibetan. It does not appear in the Chinese, or the Gilgit or Shastri manuscripts.

n.1388The Chinese has a variation of this verse.

n.1389According to the Sanskrit. Absent in the Tibetan.

n.1390In the Tibetan this four-line verse is reduced to three lines.

n.1391This verse does not appear in the Gilgit manuscript or in the Chinese.

n.1392According to the Sanskrit and the Chinese. Absent in the Tibetan.

n.1393Chinese: “have attained all the Dharma of the buddhas,” 得一切佛法 (de yi qie fo fa), and adds “have attained all higher cognitions,” 得一切神通 (de yi qie shen tong).

n.1394The verses with Roman numerals are absent in the Gilgit manuscript and the Chinese.

n.1395According to the Stok Palace reading log pa’i lta ba ngan dang mi grogs shing. The Degé has log pa’i lta ba phan dang mi grogs shing.

n.1396According to the Sanskrit kaya-vāṅmanaḥ-saṃvara-parivartaḥ. The title does not appear in the Tibetan translation. The commentary divides this chapter into three chapters.

n.1397According to the Sanskrit tṛṣṇa and the Chinese. The Tibetan has srid, which is a scribal error for sred.

n.1398According to chapter 1, where the Sanskrit is satyānupraveśa, and the Chinese. In this chapter, the Sanskrit in all versions is sattvānupraveśa (“entering beings”) and is translated accordingly into Tibetan. This therefore appears to be a very early scribal error in the Sanskrit.

n.1399The commentary explains this to mean the birthlessness of all letters, such as a. Otherwise, the identity of the three mantras is a mystery. Chinese: 三種語言 (san zhong yu yan), literally, “three kinds of languages,” which may mean “teachings” or “theories,” and may be a translation of the Sanskrit vāc or vākya.

n.1400Does not appear in the Chinese, which has instead “the quality of being generous to beggars.”

n.1401This is absent in the list of chapter 1, and in the commentary to that chapter. The commentary does not discuss the list in chapter 40, but this is also absent in the Sanskrit for that chapter. It is present in the Chinese as “the four noble truths.”

n.1402According to the Tibetan des pa, the commentary, and the Sanskrit suratatā. Here there is dge ba instead of des pa, presumably the remainder of “correct conduct” listed in chapter 1 but missing here. The definition given here matches the commentary given for des pa in chapter 1. Chinese: “the face is always pleasant.”

n.1403According to the Tibetan ’jam pa in chapter 1, and the Sanskrit mādhurya, which can also mean “sweet.” Here in chapter 40 there is mnyen pa, presumably from “tolerance” (mārdavatā), which was in the list of chapter 1 but is missing in this chapter. Chinese: 美妙言; the adjective 美妙 accords with mādhurya but adds 言 (yan, “speech / speak”) so that it means “gentle speech.”

n.1404Chinese: “It is saying beneficial things to others.”

n.1405In chapter 1, being welcoming is also in the list, and “standing up quickly” one would expect to be its definition. It may be that there was an early loss of the definition of “courteous.” Chinese: 先言善來速起迎接 (xian yan shan lai su qi ying jie), literally, “saying words of greeting first, and standing up quickly to welcome visitors.”

n.1406Tibetan: gus pa. Sanskrit: gaurava. The commentary’s explanation is to be fearful in the guru’s presence while seeing him as your teacher and being his follower at all times.

n.1407Chinese: “respectful and fearful.”

n.1408According to the BHS akūhaṇatā and the Chinese 無諂曲 (wu chan chu).

n.1409According to the Sanskrit. Instead of “interior” the Tibetan has sman shong (“valley of herbs”). The Chinese has just “caves” 巖穴 (yan xue).

n.1410According to the Tibetan and Chinese. “Strengths” and “fearlessnesses” are absent in the Sanskrit.

n.1411According to the Tibetan and the Chinese 斷除憎愛. The BHS anunaya­pratigha­prahāṇa means “the elimination of the obstacle of attachment.”

n.1412According to the Tibetan and the Chinese 發起未生之善 (fa qi wei sheng zhi shan). Sanskrit: “Not developing the bad qualities that have not been developed.”

n.1413According to the Tibetan. In chapter 1 this was listed as “the knowledge of the nature of the level of irreversibility.” In this chapter it is simply “irreversibility,” while the Sanskrit for this chapter is “the characteristic of irreversibility” (avaivartya­lakṣaṇam). Chinese: 不退相 (bu tui xiang), which accords with the Sanskrit. In chapter 1, this is translated as 住不退相 (zhu bu tui xiang), “remaining in the state of irreversibility.”

n.1414According to the Tibetan and the Sanskrit of chapter 1. Here in chapter 40, and also in the commentary on chapter 1, it is translated as dge ba’i chos phun sum tshogs pa (“a perfection of good qualities”) from the Sanskrit kuśala­dharmābhisaṃpat (which could be translated as “the attainment of good qualities”). Chinese: 出生善法 (chu sheng shan fa).

n.1415According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan appears to have translated from a manuscript that had utpāda (“production”) in error for anutpāda (“nonproduction”), translating therefore as “the production and nonperishing of the phenomena of the mind and mental events.” The Tibetan translation in the commentary’s first chapter of this definition omits both negations, and therefore has “skilled in the realization of the essence of the arising and cessation of the phenomena of the mind and mental events.” Chinese: 知心及數善巧方便而得一心 (zhi xin ji shu shan qiao fang bian er de yi xin), “a one-pointed mind that is skilled in knowing the mind and mental events.” It does not mention production or nonproduction.

n.1416Absent in the list of definitions here, and in the commentary, is chapter 1’s “the equality of the different kinds of beings.” The Chinese uses three descriptions here: 捨棄 (she qi), “disregard”; 忍辱 (ren ru), “tolerate the insult”; and 無減 (wu jian), “without decreasing.” The third can refer to patience, thus “without losing patience.”

n.1417According to the Tibetan of chapter 1, the commentary, and the Sanskrit. In the Tibetan translation of chapter 40, the word “words” is omitted. Chinese: 句義 (ju yi), “verses and meanings,” “meaning of verses.”

n.1418The commentary gives as an example “the sixteen emptinesses.” Chinese: 法句 (fa ju), “Dharma verses.”

n.1419Chinese: 知義非義差別智 (zhi yi fei yi cha bie zhi), which can also be interpreted as “the knowledge to distinguish between correct and incorrect meanings.”

n.1420According to the Tibetan and Chinese. Absent in the Sanskrit in this chapter, though present in the list in chapter 1.

n.1421According to the Tibetan, the Chinese, and the Sanskrit rakṣaṇam (“guarding”) in chapter 1, the Tibetan in chapter 40, and the commentary on chapter 1. The Sanskrit for chapter 40 has lakṣaṇam (“characteristic”), which would give the meaning “characteristic of conduct.”

n.1422According to the Sanskrit asaṃbhrantatā and its Mahāvyutpatti definition as ma nor ba. The Tibetan editions have spyos and spyoms. The Chinese has 覆藏善事 (fu cang shan shi), literally, “concealing virtuous acts,” which may refer to training in the conduct of a bodhisattva: “revealing one’s own nonvirtuous acts, concealing virtuous acts.”

n.1423The Tibetan translates avikalpa in chapter 1 and in the commentary as mi ’chos pa, but here in chapter 40 it is translated as rnam par mi rtog pa (“not conceptually fabricated”), which is a particular BHS meaning of avikalpa. The Chinese 不分別威儀 (bu fen bie wei yi) accords with the BHS. The commentary’s definition does, however, encompass both meanings by saying that this means being free of negative thoughts and therefore the conduct is uncontrived, unfabricated.

n.1424According to chapter 1, where the Sanskrit īryāpatha-prāsādikatā was translated as spyod pa mdzes pa (“beautiful conduct”). In chapter 1 the Chinese translated prāsādikatā as two qualities: 端 (duan), “proper, upright, dignified,” and 雅 (ya), “elegant, graceful.” However, here in chapter 40 [F.164.b] the Tibetan translates prāsādikatā in the more usual way as dang ba (“clear,” “serene,” “attractive”), but the Sanskrit has indryapatha, presumably a corruption of īryāpatha, and therefore the Tibetan has dbang (“faculties”) instead of spyod pa (“conduct,” “beautiful faculties”), and therefore appears to have been translating from indryapatha.

n.1425Literally, “the hands are always extended.” The commentary says, “ready to give material possessions or the Dharma.” Chinese: 常舒施手 (chang shu shi shou), “always extending hands of generosity.”

n.1426Chinese: 恥諸暴惡 (chi zhu bao er), “embarrassed by [one’s own] nonvirtuous actions, which are exposed.”

n.1427According to the Sanskrit anabhimukhatā. The Tibetan does not have the negative and has simply mngon du gyur pa. The commentary to chapter 1 appears to follow the absence of the negative. The Chinese adds 羞諸愚害 “ashamed of the stupidity and harms committed by oneself.”

n.1428According to the Tibetan in chapter 1, sgrub pa dang nges par sgrub pa, and the Sanskrit āhāranirhāra. Cf. Edgerton (112) where āharaṇatā means “winning, getting, attainment.” Here in chapter 40, the Tibetan is zas sgrub pa (“attainment of food”) with āhāra here translated as “food.” The definition is “sharp wisdom,” which does not appear to be food related. The commentary also defines it as “perfecting good qualities and eliminating negative ones, and that sharp wisdom develops from that.” Gómez et al. (n. 18, p. 85) describe this compound as a problematic term and give a conjectural translation as “bringing together and taking away” (p. 57). Chinese: 部分別巧便智 (bu fen bien qiao bian zhi) from the Sanskrit āhāranirhāra-kauśalya-jñāna. This consists of two elements: the first is 部分別智, “knowledge based on analysis of various categories of Buddha’s teachings”, and the second element, 巧便智, is “knowledge based on skillful means.”

n.1429In chapter 1 the Tibetan is nges pa’i tshig rnam par gzhag pa shes pa and the Sanskrit is nirukti­vyavasthāna­jñānam. The commentary makes “definitions” (nges pa’i tshig) part of the definition of rnam par gzhag pa shes pa and the Tibetan and Sanskrit in chapter 40 has rnam par gzhag pa shes pa and vyavasthāna­jñānam only. Chinese: 知處所智 (zhi chu suo zhi), in accord with the Sanskrit. Literally, “the wisdom of knowing,” 處所 (chu suo). The term 處所 (chu suo) literally means “place” or “how to place, set forth, establish.”

n.1430According to the Sanskrit abhirati . The Tibetan has mi ’dor ba (“not abandon”). In chapter 1 the word used was nispādana, translated into Tibetan as sgrub and into English as “accomplishment.”

n.1431Chinese: 修禪發通 (xiu chan fa tong), which can be understood as “miraculous powers or higher cognitions that arise from meditation practice.”

n.1432According to the BHS āmiṣa. Translated into Tibetan as zang zing. Chinese: 不悕資生 (bu xi zi sheng), literally, “not expecting to receive things for daily needs.”

n.1433Chinese: “inappropriate mendicants.”

n.1434According to the commentary, this means that pointless conversations with other mendicants will prevent the development of one’s own meditation. Chinese: “associating with those who are appropriate and avoiding those who are inappropriate.”

n.1435Absent from the Chinese.

n.1436According to the Sanskrit upālambhā and the Chinese 取著 (qu zhuo). Translated into Tibetan as klan ka, “objectors.”

n.1437Chinese: 凡愚 (fan yu), “ordinary foolish people.”

n.1438Chinese: 貧賤 (pin jian), “who are impoverished and in low social ranks.”

n.1439Chinese: 貧苦 (pin ku), “impoverished and suffering.”

n.1440According to the Sanskrit, Chinese, and the commentary. “The result” is absent from the Tibetan, apparently by error.

n.1441Sanskrit nimantraṇatā (Shastri: nimantrahatā): “to invite.” Tibetan and commentary: mgron du gnyer ba (“take care of as one’s guests”). Chinese: 勸請 (quan qing), “urging” or “encouraging.”

n.1442According to chapter 1 and the commentary. “Having veneration” is absent in chapter 40.

n.1443“Knowledge” is according to chapter 1. It is absent in the Sanskrit for chapter 40. The Tibetan has, “What is the rejection of the characteristics of things?” Chinese: “skill in discerning the characteristics of things.”

n.1444According to the Hodgson manuscript. The Tibetan lacks “of dhyāna.” The Sanskrit has solely “the knowledge of the teachings.” The Chinese has solely 知佛法力 (zhi fo fa li), “understanding the strength of the Buddha’s Dharma.”

n.1445In chapter 1 the Sanskrit has śīladṛdhatā (“stability of conduct”) and the Tibetan has tshul khrims dam pa (“excellent conduct”). In chapter 40 the Sanskrit is śīlādhiṣṭhānatā and the Tibetan has tshul khrims kyi gnas (“the state of conduct”). Chinese: 安住於戒 (an zhu yu jie), “remaining in correct conduct.”

n.1446According to the Tibetan of chapter 1, the Sanskrit in both chapter 1 and chapter 40, and the commentary. The Tibetan here has “the light of wisdom.” Chinese: 得智照明 (de zhi zhao ming), “attainment of the illumination of wisdom.”

n.1447“Knowledge” has been added in the English translation for clarity, but is only implied in the Sanskrit, Chinese, and Tibetan.

n.1448According to the Sanskrit vidyā. The Tibetan has rigs in error for rig.

n.1449In chapter 1 this is “the level of patience.”

n.1450“Level” is clearly singular in the Sanskrit bhūmiḥ. The commentary identifies this with the ten bhūmis (“levels”) of the bodhisattva. Chinese: “ten levels.”

n.1451In chapter 1 this is “being free from impatience.”

n.1452Chinese: “tathāgatas.”

n.1453According to the Sanskrit bhaiṣajya and the Chinese 醫王 (yi wang); translated into Tibetan as rtsi.

n.1454According to the Sanskrit vandanīyā. Tibetan: phyag bya ba. Chinese: 禮拜 (li bai), “pays homage,” “bows down to.”

n.1455According to the Sanskrit kola. The Tibetan gzings can mean “a boat,” but also “a ferry,” which in Tibet was sometimes a raft. Chinese: 舟筏 (zhou fa), “boat” or “raft.”

n.1456In chapter 1 “quality” is singular, and in this chapter it is plural. This difference is not discernible in the Tibetan.

n.1457According to the Tibetan in chapter 1, which has sgrub pa (“accomplishment”). The Sanskrit āhārikā was translated by Gómez et al. according to an alternate meaning, “that which brings.” Chapter 40 has asaṃhartya, which in that chapter and in the commentary is translated as mi ’phrogs (“cannot be taken away”). The Sanskrit and the Tibetan of chapter 1 better fit the definition of this term as given in chapter 40, which includes the word āharaṇa. However, the commentary differs in its definition, specifying that it cannot be undermined by māras or tīrthikas. Chinese: 獲得一切智智, “attainment of the wisdom that accomplishes all wisdom”; the word “wisdom,” 智, appears twice consecutively in chapter 40. In chapter 1, it is 引導一切智, where the word “wisdom” appears only once, “[the wisdom] that brings all wisdom.”

n.1458According to the Sanskrit and Chinese. “Beings” is absent in the Tibetan.

n.1459According to the Sanskrit upadrava. The Tibetan translates as gtse ba (“violence”) and the commentary as gnod pa (“harm”). The Chinese 苦難 (ku nan), “sufferings and hardships,” accords with the Sanskrit upadrava.

n.1460Chinese: “Why have they obtained fearlessness?”

n.1461According to the Sanskrit kṣema. The Tibetan translates as bzod pa.

n.1462According to the Tibetan yongs su brtag pa dang phyir brtag pa. The commentary has btran par byas (“made stable”) and the Sanskrit ākoṭi and pratyākoṭi is obscure as it appears to mean “to beat,” but presumably “examine” is meant. Chinese: “because they have examined 觀察 (guan cha) and reexamined 溫習 (wen xi) all phenomena thoroughly,” or alternatively, “because of the familiarity of having examined all phenomena thoroughly.”

n.1463This appears to be a combination, perhaps with some scribal omission, of two qualities listed in chapter 1.

n.1464According to the Sanskrit. The Tibetan has the negative: “they don’t give rise to reverence.” Chinese: 謂知多欲過故 (wei zhi duo yu guo gu), “because they know the faults of having many desires.”

n.1465In the Dutt this is the conclusion of a penultimate chapter at this point.

n.1466According to the Tibetan. “Light rays” is absent in the Sanskrit and Chinese.

n.1467According to the Tibetan and Chinese. “The meaning” is absent in the Sanskrit.

n.1468The title of this final chapter, which would normally appear here at the conclusion of the chapter, is not given in the Sanskrit or Tibetan.