Some Remarks on the Textual Transmission and Text of Bu ston

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154 Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines che yin no e zhes bka' bstsal nas e mtshan kyang sba o ratna zhes btags te / ag bod kyi rab tu e byung ba la snga ba de yin no / a DPA'(P), DPA': rtse. b DPA'(P), DPA': omit dang longs spyod. c DPA'(P), DPA': g.yengs. d DPA'(P), DPA': add 'dug /. e DPA'(P), DPA': omit. f DPA'(P), DPA': gsung. g DPA'(P), DPA': lug. h DPA'(P), DPA': smra ba'i. i DPA'(P), DPA': rnams for tsha mchims legs «bzang» la sogs pa. j DPA'(P), DPA': pas for pa las /. k DPA'(P), DPA': add pra bha. l DPA'(P), DPA': he. m Read ratna. n DPA'(P), DPA': rba khri bzher gyi bu khri gzigs sam sang shi ta dang for sba rma gzigs «khri bzher yang zer» kyi bu ratnar/. o DPA'(P), DPA': rba. p DPA'(P), DPA': add khri gzigs sam. q DPA'(P), DPA': omit yang zer ba de. r DPA'(P), DPA': btsan. s DPA'(P), DPA': omit this entire phrase. t DPA'(P), DPA': leb rnams. u DPA'(P), DPA': gzigs. v DPA'(P), DPA': omit pa..gzhan. w DPA'(P), DPA': mgos rgan. x Text has lob. y DPA'(P), DPA': zhu'o. z Text has phabs. aa DPA'(P), DPA': ab DPA'(P), DPA': ac DPA'(P), DPA': have saṃskṛta'i skad med kyang bod byang chub sems dpa'i sprul pa'i skad yin pas chos byar btub gsungs te sgom lung phog go / from dang / to gsung bas /. pas. have slob dpon gyis btub bam sad cig gsungs te skad bslabs pa after lan pas.
A Chronicle of Buddhism in India and Tibet 155 ad DPA'(P), DPA': add rab tu phyung ste. ae DPA'(P), DPA': add /. af DPA'(P), DPA': lnga'i mngon par shes pa. ag DPA'(P), DPA': zhes thogs /. At that time when the construction of Bsam yas 84 was completed, the Lord (rje) and his ministers diverted themselves in celebration and amusement, 85 and, due to the fact that up to that time there was not even the name for a monk in Tibet, the entire structure of Bsam yas was barren and empty of monks. Because there was no one to make offerings to and worship the temples and religious objects (rten), the Mighty One was unhappy and, saying to Śāntarakṣita: "It will be appropriate that the population gets involved with religion", the master then invited twelve monks of the Magadha-Vaibhāṣika of the Mūlasarvāstivāda school in the first spring-month of the hare-year. The master (slob dpon) having taught the Indian language [Sanskrit] to Mchims Legs «bzang», the son of his zhang blon [minister belonging to the families of the imperial fathers-in-law] etc., Khri srong lde btsan ordered that: [1] Shākya, the son of Mchims A nu, [2] Pa gor Bai ro tsa na, the son of Pa gor Na 'dod «also called He 'dod», 86 84 85 86 For the various names of this monastery, see A. Chayet, "Contribution aux recherches sur les états successifs du monastère de Bsam-yas," Tibet. Civilisation et Société, ed. F. Meyer (Paris: Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1990), 109-17. Both SBb, 57 and SBp, 54 [SBch, 154, Tong-Huang 1990: 44] as well as MES, 234, indicate that the celebrations lasted twelve years; we find the same in LDE'U, 355. Neither Nyang ral nor *Lde'u Jo sras or Ne'u Paṇḍita have anything to report here, but Bu ston writes that they took place over a thirteen year period! — see Szerb (1990: 28) and BUm, 1191 —, as does THUGS, 261. He was, of coure, one of the first two men to bring the Rdzogs chen teachings to Tibet. NYANG, 317-8 [NYANGa, 506, NYANGb, 368-9, NYANGm, 341b] notes that Khri srong lde btsan was visited by Vajrasattva in a dream who suggested to him that he send two Tibetan monks to search for the Bka' Rdzogs pa chen po in India. Allowing for rather serious orthographic instability, according to the reading of NYANGm, both men, Rtsang The lag and Rtsang Legs grub, were sons of Dpal gor He 'dod. On the other hand, the other editions all have simply a "son of Spa[P]a gor He 'dod and Rtsang[s] Legs grub, the son of Rtsang[s] The legs," a reading that would seem preferable. After having been ordained and taught the art of translation by Śāntarakṣita, they were given gold dust to cover the expenses for their trip and dispatched to the Indian subcontinent.
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