[Buddha-l] Pudgalavada

[Dan Lusthaus]

Stephen,

> bzod-pa dang | ming dang | mtshan dang | chos-kyi mchog-rnams-la ...

Thanks for this emendation.

> having something for the "xiang".  However, the abbreviated "mtshan" looks
> odd on its own in prose -- it should be "mtshan-ma" (nimitta) or
> "mtshan-nyid (lak.sa.na).  Other editions might clarify this, but as I
said
> before, this does confirm that the "xiang" (sign) is correct rather than
> "xiang" (sa.mj~naa).

I believe mtshan, even without an additional -ma or -nyid, can mean: naama;
nimitta; raatrau (or raatri); or vya~njana. If so, like xiang, it doesn't
let us narrow down between laksana and nimitta, but, as you say, it puts us
in the right ballpark.

Dan Lusthaus