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bhāşya ascribed to one Jinaputra by the Tibetan tradition, a there are several autochtonous Tibetan commentaries on the As. So far, I have examined five Tibetan commentaries, viz. those written by Bu ston Rin chen grub? (1290-1364), rGyal tshab Dar ma rin chene (1364-1432), BO don pan chen Phyogs las rnam rgyal' (1376-1451), gSer mdog pan chen sākya mchog ldan 10 (1428-1507), and Mi pham 'Jam dbyans rnam rgyal rgya mtsho 11 (1846-1912). As for the passage concerned, Bo don's commentary 12 is by far the most detailed one; next in length and substance are the commentaries of Bu ston 13 and sākya mchog ldan, 14 whereas rGyal tshab rje's 15 is significantly shorter and less substantial. Mi pham's commentary to the passage 16 is hardly more than excerpts from AS and ASB.
In the present paper, I shall limit myself to a discussion of Bu ston's commentary on the passage, and to a provisional one at that. The other Tibetan commentaries will be referred to only occasionally. In order to understand and evaluate Bu ston's explanations it is, however, necessary to see how the topic of darśanamārga is treated in the basic text itself as well as in the Indian commentary which is of course authoritative for the Tibetans. This means that I have to begin with an outline of the darśanamārga section of the As and the Asbh. .
6 The paragraph on darśanamārga is explained in ASBh 76,19-78,22 (= S 85), Peking
Tanjur, Sems tsam, si, 69a3ff. and 259a4ff. 6a For other ascriptions see J.w.de Jong, in: TP LIX, 340f. (= Buddhist Studies by J.W.
de Jong, ed. G. Schopen, Berkeley 1979, 602f.). ? Chos mon pa kun las btus kyi tīk rnam bśad si ma'i 'od zer (The Collected Works of
Bu ston. Ed. Lokesh Chandra, vol.20 (VA), New Delhi 1971, 79ff.). * Legs par bśad pa chos mnon rgya mtsho'i snin po (Gsun-'bum of rGyal-tshab Dar-ma-rin
chen, blockprint preserved in the State Library of Berlin, vol.Ga, second part). Encyclopedia Tibetica (The collected works of Bo-don Pan-chen Phyogs-las-rnam-rgyal).
Vol. 16, New Delhi 1970. 10 Dam pa'i chos mon pa kun las btus pa'i rnam par bśad pa rNal 'byor spyod głun rgya mtsho'i rlabs kyi phren ba. The Complete works (Gsun 'bum) of Gser-mdog Pan-chen Śakya-mchog-ldan. Vol. 14, Thimphu (Bhutan) 1975, 1-340. mNon pa kun btus kyi rnam grans sna tshogs bśad pa. Collected Writings of 'Jam-mgon
'Ju Mi-pham-rgya-mtsho. Vol.70, Gangtok 1975, 401ff. 12 Bo don 658,6-699,5. As also indicated in the edition, a piece of text reaching from 692,4 to 696,6 is misplaced (it has to be inserted in 701, 2) and belongs to the
section of the bhāvanāmārga. 13 Bu ston 578,4-585,1. 14 sākya 220,5-227,1. 15 rGyal tshab 154b3-156b1. 26 Mi pham 466,2-468,5.