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  1. Oct 2025
    1. Amitāyus

      insert glossary entry: tshe dpag med/ amitāyus/ AD/ Amitāyus/ 'Infinite Life,' the name of the buddha in the realm of Sukhāvatī. Also known as Amitābha ('Infinite Light').

    2. Dharma-teaching monk

      please make this link to the glossary entry for chos smra ba/ dharmabhāṇaka with these alternative entries:

      chos smra ba'i dge slong/ dharmabhāṇakabhikṣu/ AD/ Dharma-teaching monk

    3. ethical discipline

      here, and again below, it is "ethical disciple" not "discipline" that translates tshul khrims/ śīla. So please make the glossary entry tag the whole term "ethical discipline"

    4. Vanquishing the Darkness of All Sorrow

      add glossary entry: མྱ་ངན་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་མུན་པ་ངེས་པར་འཇོམས་པ་ mya ngan thams cad kyi mun pa nges par 'joms pa/ [no Sanskrit]/Vanquishing the Darkness of All Sorrow/ A bodhisattva present in the audience for this discourse.

    5. Fortunate Eon

      untag 'Eon' and please add a glossary entry for the whole term: bskal pa bzang po/ bhadrakalpa/AD/Fortunate Eon/ The name of the current eon, so-called because one thousand buddhas are prophesied to appear during this time.

    1. five acts of immediate retribution

      add glossary entry for mtshams med pa lnga - Standard Definition

      it also occurs later in the text (1.69) as "five deeds of immediate retribution" and at 1.75 as "deeds of immediate retribution" (without "five") -- these should also be caught by the glossary entry.

    2. the General Sūtra section and the Action Tantra (Skt. kriyātantra) section

      As far as I can see, the Toh number of the Tantra section version is not given anywhere- neither on the title page nor here. It should be given somewhere - depending on what our convention is - either on the title page or here in brackets ie: Action Tantra (Skt. kriyātantra) section (Toh 721).

    3. Mañjuśrī Kumārabhūta

      the glossary should pick both parts of the name together as a single glossary entry for 'jam dpal gzhon nur gyur pa (which could also link to just Mañjuśrī, but the point is that both parts of the name should highlight, not just the first part). The same issue is found for other instances of the name that occur later in the sūtra.

    4. the Beholding of Beings Through the Blessing of All the Tathāgatas, The Marvelous Display of Buddhafields

      make all lower case (samādhi name).

      also make the corresponding glossary entry all lower case.

  2. Mar 2024
    1. While no citations or references to this sūtra have as yet been discovered in other canonical works of Buddhist literature, as Skilling has also noted,

      [DF has been consulted} - delete "While" - after "noted" add period [.] and start new sentence - delete "also" So it should read:

      No citations..have as yet been discovered..., as Skilling has noted. Another complete Tibetan..can be found..

    2. France.

      please add at the end of the note 7:

      Pelliot Tibétain 89 consists of two sūtras, the first of which is a version of the Maitreyaparipr̥cchā (cf. Toh 86), and the second of which is a version of The Questions of Gaṅgottarā. The latter begins on folio ta-2, line 2.