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(return to list of '''''[[Contents & Translation of "Mulamadhyamakakarika: Verses from the Centre"]]''''')
 
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'''Chapter 5. Investigation of the [[Elements]]'''
 
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'''''(Space)''''' - ([[nam mkha']])
 
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<span class=TibUni18>ནམ་མཁའི་མཚན་ཉིད་སྔ་རོལ་ན།</span><br>
 
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<span class=TibUni18>ནམ་མཁའ་ཅུང་ཟད་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན།</span><br>
 
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<span class=TibUni18>གལ་ཏེ་མཚན་ལས་སྔ་གྱུར་ན།</span><br>
 
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<span class=TibUni18>མཚན་ཉིད་མེད་པར་ཐལ་བར་འགྱུར།།</span><br>
 
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1. [[nam mkha'i mtshan nyid]] [[snga rol]] [[na]]/<br>
 
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[[nam mkha']] [[cung zad]] [[yod ma yin]]/<br>
 
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[[gal te]] [[mtshan las]] [[snga]] [[gyur na]]/<br>
 
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[[mtshan nyid med pa]]r [[thal bar 'gyur]]//<br>
 
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1. Not the slightest bit of space exists prior to the characteristics of space. If [space] existed prior to its characteristics, it would follow that it would be without characteristics.
 
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<span class=TibUni18>མཚན་ཉིད་མེད་པའི་དངོས་པོ་ནི།</span><br>
 
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<span class=TibUni18>འགའ་ཡང་གང་ནའང་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན།</span><br>
 
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<span class=TibUni18>མཚན་ཉིད་མེད་པའི་དངོས་མེད་ན།</span><br>
 
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<span class=TibUni18>མཚན་ཉིད་གང་དུ་འཇུག་པར་འགྱུར།།</span><br>
 
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2.  [[mtshan nyid med pa]]'i [[dngos po]] [[ni]]/<br>
 
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[['ga' yang]] [[gang na]]'ang [[yod ma yin]]/<br>
 
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[[mtshan nyid med pa]]'i [[dngos med]] [[na]]/<br>
 
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[[mtshan nyid]] [[gang du]] [['jug par 'gyur]]//<br>
 
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2. A thing without characteristics does not exist anywhere at all. If a thing without characteristics does not exist, to what do characteristics extend?
 
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<span class=TibUni18>མཚན་ཉིད་མེད་ལ་མཚན་ཉིད་ནི།</span><br>
 
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<span class=TibUni18>མི་འཇུག་མཚན་ཉིད་བཅས་ལ་མིན།</span><br>
 
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<span class=TibUni18>མཚན་བཅས་མཚན་ཉིད་མེད་པ་ལས།</span><br>
 
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<span class=TibUni18>གཞན་ལའང་འཇུག་པར་མི་འགྱུར་ཨོར།།</span><br>
 
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3. [[mtshan nyid]] [[med la]] [[mtshan nyid]] [[ni]]/<br>
 
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[[mi 'jug]] [[mtshan nyid]] [[bcas]] [[la]] [[min]]/<br>
 
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[[mtshan bcas]] [[mtshan nyid med pa]] [[las]]/<br>
 
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[[gzhan]] [[la'ang]] [['jug pa]]r [[mi 'gyur ro]]//<br>
 
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3. Characteristics do not extend to that which has no characteristics; nor to what possesses characteristics. They also cannot extend to something other than what either possesses or does not have characteristics.
 
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<span class=TibUni18>མཚན་ཉིད་འཇུག་པ་མ་ཡིན་ན།</span><br>
 
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<span class=TibUni18>མཚན་གཞི་འཐད་པར་མི་འགྱུར་རོ།</span><br>
 
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<span class=TibUni18>མཚན་གཞི་འཐད་པ་མ་ཡིན་ན།</span><br>
 
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<span class=TibUni18>མཚན་ཉིད་ཀྱང་ནི་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན།།</span><br>
 
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4. [[mtshan nyid]] [['jug pa]] [[ma yin na]]/<br>
 
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[[mtshan gzhi]] [['thad pa]]r [[mi 'gyur ro]]/<br>
 
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[[mtshan gzhi]] [['thad pa]] [[ma yin na]]/<br>
 
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[[mtshan nyid]] [[kyang]] [[ni]] [[yod ma yin]]//<br>
 
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4. If characteristics do not extend [to something] , something characterized would be impossible. If something characterized is impossible, characteristics too would not exist.
 
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<span class=TibUni18>མཚན་ཉིད་ཡོད་པ་ཉིད་མ་ཡིན།</span><br>
 
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<span class=TibUni18>མཚན་གཞི་མཚན་ཉིད་མ་གཏོགས་པའི།</span><br>
 
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<span class=TibUni18>དངོས་པོ་ཡང་ནི་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན།།</span><br>
 
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5. [[de phyir]] [[mtshan gzhi]] [[yod min]] [[te]]/<br>
 
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[[mtshan nyid]] [[yod pa]] [[nyid]] [[ma yin]]/<br>
 
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[[mtshan gzhi]] [[mtshan nyid]] [[ma gtogs pa]]'i/<br>
 
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[[dngos po]] [[yang]] [[ni]] [[yod ma yin]]//<br>
 
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5. Therefore, something characterized does not exist and characteristics do not exist. There also does not exist a thing which is apart from being something characterized or a characteristic.
 
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<span class=TibUni18>དངོས་པོ་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཡིན་ན།</span><br>
 
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<span class=TibUni18>དངོས་མེད་གང་གི་ཡིན་པར་འགྱུར།</span><br>
 
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<span class=TibUni18>དངོས་དང་དངོས་མེད་མི་མཐུན་ཆོས།</span><br>
 
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<span class=TibUni18>གང་གིས་དངོས་དང་དངོས་མེད་ཤེས།།</span><br>
 
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6. [[dngos po yod pa]] [[ma yin na]]/<br>
 
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[[dngos med]] [[gang gi]] [[yin par]] [['gyur]]/<br>
 
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[[dngos dang dngos med]] [[mi mthun]] [[chos]]/<br>
 
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[[gang gis]] [[dngos dang dngos med]] [[shes]]//<br>
 
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6. If there is not a thing, of what can there be a non-thing? By whom are the opposites thing and non-thing known [as] a thing and a non-thing?
 
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['''Ts.''' 140 understands "a thing" to refer to the obstructive matter of which space, as a negation and hence a non-thing, is a negation of.]
 
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<span class=TibUni18>དེ་ཕྱིར་ནམ་མཁའ་དངོས་པོ་མིན།</span><br>
 
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<span class=TibUni18>དངོས་མེད་མ་ཡིན་མཚན་གཞི་མིན།</span><br>
 
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<span class=TibUni18>མཚན་ཉིད་མ་ཡིན་ཁམས་ལྔ་པོ།</span><br>
 
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<span class=TibUni18>གཞན་གང་དག་ཀྱང་ནམ་མཁའ་མཚུངས།།</span><br>
 
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7. [[de phyir]] [[nam mkha']] [[dngos po]] [[min]]/<br>
 
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[[dngos med]] [[ma yin]] [[mtshan gzhi]] [[min]]/<br>
 
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[[mtshan nyid]] [[ma yin]] [[khams lnga]] [[po]]/<br>
 
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[[gzhan]] [[gang dag]] [[kyang]] [[nam mkha']] [[mtshungs]]//<br>
 
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7. Therefore, space is not a thing; it is not a non-thing; it is not something characterized; it is not a characteristic. The other five elements too are similar to space.
 
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<span class=TibUni18>བློ་ཆུང་གང་དག་དངོས་རྣམས་ལ།</span><br>
 
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<span class=TibUni18>ཡོད་པ་ཉིད་དང་མེད་ཉིད་དུ།</span><br>
 
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<span class=TibUni18>བལྟ་བ་དེས་ནི་བལྟ་བྱ་བ།</span><br>
 
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<span class=TibUni18>ཉེ་བར་ཞི་བ་ཞི་མི་མཐོང།།</span><br>
 
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8. [[blo chung]] [[gang dag]] [[dngos rnams]] [[la]]/<br>
 
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[[yod pa nyid]] [[dang]] [[med nyid]] [[du]]/<br>
 
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[[blta ba]] [[des]] [[ni]] [[blta bya]] [[ba]]/<br>
 
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[[nye bar zhi ba]] [[zhi mi]] [[mthong]]//<br>
 
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8. Those of small minds see things as existent and non-existent. They do not behold the utter pacification of what is seen.
 
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<span class=TibUni18>ཁམས་བརྟག་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་སྟེ་རབ་ཏུ་བྱེད་པ་ལྔ་པའོ།།</span><br>
 
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khams brtag pa zhes bya ba ste rab tu byed pa lnga pa'o//<br>
 
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