women

[jonathan silk]

Perhaps one of the passages John Dunne was thinking of is the commentary
(v.rtti) to Jnaanagarbha's Satyadvayavibhang-kaarikaa 3.  This states, in a
discussion of the two truths (what else did you think that text would talk
about?) that the conventional truth is ascertained conventionally according
to the experience of ordinary people, including female cowherds and so on.
See the edition (tibetan only) and translation of Eckel 156.6-9 and 71. (ji
ltar ba lang rdzi mo la sogs pa yan chad kyis mthong ba de ltar kun rdzob
tu bden pa rnam par gnas kyi yang dang par ni ma yin te /...

Jonathan Silk
SILK at wmich.edu