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| − | '''5. Investigation of the Elements''' | + | '''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> | |
| + | <span class=TibUni18>།ནམ་མཁའ་ཅུང་ཟད་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན།</span><br> | ||
| + | <span class=TibUni18>།གལ་ཏེ་མཚན་ལས་སྔ་གྱུར་ན།</span><br> | ||
| − | 1. nam mkha'i mtshan nyid snga rol na/<br> | + | <span class=TibUni18>།མཚན་ཉིད་མེད་པར་ཐལ་བར་འགྱུར།།</span><br> |
| − | nam mkha' cung zad yod ma yin/<br> | + | |
| − | gal te mtshan las snga gyur na/<br> | + | 1. [[nam mkha'i mtshan nyid]] [[snga rol]] [[na]]/<br> |
| − | mtshan nyid med | + | [[nam mkha']] [[cung zad]] [[yod ma yin]]/<br> |
| + | [[gal te]] [[mtshan las]] [[snga]] [[gyur na]]/<br> | ||
| + | [[mtshan nyid med pa]]r [[thal bar 'gyur]]//<br> | ||
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. | 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> | ||
| + | <span class=TibUni18>།མཚན་ཉིད་གང་དུ་འཇུག་པར་འགྱུར།།</span><br> | ||
| − | 2. mtshan nyid med pa'i dngos po ni/<br> | + | 2. [[mtshan nyid med pa]]'i [[dngos po]] [[ni]]/<br> |
| − | 'ga' yang gang na'ang yod ma yin/<br> | + | [['ga' yang]] [[gang na]]'ang [[yod ma yin]]/<br> |
| − | mtshan nyid med pa'i dngos med na/<br> | + | [[mtshan nyid med pa]]'i [[dngos med]] [[na]]/<br> |
| − | mtshan nyid gang du 'jug par 'gyur/<br> | + | [[mtshan nyid]] [[gang du]] [['jug par 'gyur]]//<br> |
2. A thing without characteristics does not exist anywhere at all. If a thing without characteristics does not exist, to what do characteristics extend? | 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> | ||
| + | <span class=TibUni18>།གཞན་ལའང་འཇུག་པར་མི་འགྱུར་ཨོར།།</span><br> | ||
| − | 3. mtshan nyid med la mtshan nyid ni/<br> | + | 3. [[mtshan nyid]] [[med la]] [[mtshan nyid]] [[ni]]/<br> |
| − | mi 'jug mtshan nyid bcas la min/<br> | + | [[mi 'jug]] [[mtshan nyid]] [[bcas]] [[la]] [[min]]/<br> |
| − | mtshan bcas mtshan nyid med pa las/<br> | + | [[mtshan bcas]] [[mtshan nyid med pa]] [[las]]/<br> |
| − | gzhan la'ang 'jug | + | [[gzhan]] [[la'ang]] [['jug pa]]r [[mi 'gyur ro]]//<br> |
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. | 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. | ||
| + | ________________________________ | ||
| + | <span class=TibUni18>།མཚན་ཉིད་འཇུག་པ་མ་ཡིན་ན།</span><br> | ||
| − | 4. mtshan nyid 'jug pa ma yin na/<br> | + | <span class=TibUni18>།མཚན་གཞི་འཐད་པར་མི་འགྱུར་རོ།</span><br> |
| − | mtshan gzhi 'thad | + | |
| − | mtshan gzhi 'thad pa ma yin na/<br> | + | <span class=TibUni18>།མཚན་གཞི་འཐད་པ་མ་ཡིན་ན།</span><br> |
| − | mtshan nyid kyang ni yod ma yin/<br> | + | |
| + | <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> | ||
| + | [[mtshan gzhi]] [['thad pa]]r [[mi 'gyur ro]]/<br> | ||
| + | [[mtshan gzhi]] [['thad pa]] [[ma yin na]]/<br> | ||
| + | [[mtshan nyid]] [[kyang]] [[ni]] [[yod ma yin]]//<br> | ||
4. If characteristics do not extend [to something] , something characterized would be impossible. If something characterized is impossible, characteristics too would not exist. | 4. If characteristics do not extend [to something] , something characterized would be impossible. If something characterized is impossible, characteristics too would not exist. | ||
| + | ________________________________ | ||
| + | <span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ཕྱིར་མཚན་གཞི་ཡོད་མིན་ཏེ།</span><br> | ||
| − | 5. de phyir mtshan gzhi yod min te/<br> | + | <span class=TibUni18>།མཚན་ཉིད་ཡོད་པ་ཉིད་མ་ཡིན།</span><br> |
| − | mtshan nyid yod pa nyid ma yin/<br> | + | |
| − | mtshan gzhi mtshan nyid ma gtogs pa'i/<br> | + | <span class=TibUni18>།མཚན་གཞི་མཚན་ཉིད་མ་གཏོགས་པའི།</span><br> |
| − | dngos po yang ni yod ma yin/<br> | + | |
| + | <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> | ||
| + | [[mtshan nyid]] [[yod pa]] [[nyid]] [[ma yin]]/<br> | ||
| + | [[mtshan gzhi]] [[mtshan nyid]] [[ma gtogs pa]]'i/<br> | ||
| + | [[dngos po]] [[yang]] [[ni]] [[yod ma yin]]//<br> | ||
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. | 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. | ||
| + | ________________________________ | ||
| + | |||
| + | <span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་པོ་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཡིན་ན།</span><br> | ||
| + | <span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་མེད་གང་གི་ཡིན་པར་འགྱུར།</span><br> | ||
| − | 6. dngos po yod pa ma yin na/<br> | + | <span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་དང་དངོས་མེད་མི་མཐུན་ཆོས།</span><br> |
| − | dngos med gang gi yin par 'gyur/<br> | + | |
| − | dngos dang dngos med mi mthun chos/<br> | + | <span class=TibUni18>།གང་གིས་དངོས་དང་དངོས་མེད་ཤེས།།</span><br> |
| − | gang gis dngos dang dngos med shes/<br> | + | |
| + | 6. [[dngos po yod pa]] [[ma yin na]]/<br> | ||
| + | [[dngos med]] [[gang gi]] [[yin par]] [['gyur]]/<br> | ||
| + | [[dngos dang dngos med]] [[mi mthun]] [[chos]]/<br> | ||
| + | [[gang gis]] [[dngos dang dngos med]] [[shes]]//<br> | ||
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? | 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.] | ['''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.] | ||
| + | ________________________________ | ||
| + | <span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ཕྱིར་ནམ་མཁའ་དངོས་པོ་མིན།</span><br> | ||
| − | 7. de phyir nam mkha' dngos po min/<br> | + | <span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་མེད་མ་ཡིན་མཚན་གཞི་མིན།</span><br> |
| − | dngos med ma yin mtshan gzhi min/<br> | + | |
| − | mtshan nyid ma yin khams lnga po/<br> | + | <span class=TibUni18>།མཚན་ཉིད་མ་ཡིན་ཁམས་ལྔ་པོ།</span><br> |
| − | gzhan gang dag kyang nam mkha' mtshungs/<br> | + | |
| + | <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> | ||
| + | [[dngos med]] [[ma yin]] [[mtshan gzhi]] [[min]]/<br> | ||
| + | [[mtshan nyid]] [[ma yin]] [[khams lnga]] [[po]]/<br> | ||
| + | [[gzhan]] [[gang dag]] [[kyang]] [[nam mkha']] [[mtshungs]]//<br> | ||
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. | 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> | ||
| + | <span class=TibUni18>།ཉེ་བར་ཞི་བ་ཞི་མི་མཐོང།།</span><br> | ||
| − | 8. blo chung gang dag dngos rnams la/<br> | + | 8. [[blo chung]] [[gang dag]] [[dngos rnams]] [[la]]/<br> |
| − | yod pa nyid dang med nyid du/<br> | + | [[yod pa nyid]] [[dang]] [[med nyid]] [[du]]/<br> |
| − | blta ba des ni blta bya ba/<br> | + | [[blta ba]] [[des]] [[ni]] [[blta bya]] [[ba]]/<br> |
| − | nye bar zhi ba zhi mi mthong/<br> | + | [[nye bar zhi ba]] [[zhi mi]] [[mthong]]//<br> |
8. Those of small minds see things as existent and non-existent. They do not behold the utter pacification of what is seen. | 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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| + | ________________________________ | ||
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| + | <span class=TibUni18>།ཁམས་བརྟག་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་སྟེ་རབ་ཏུ་བྱེད་པ་ལྔ་པའོ།།</span><br> | ||
khams brtag pa zhes bya ba ste rab tu byed pa lnga pa'o//<br> | khams brtag pa zhes bya ba ste rab tu byed pa lnga pa'o//<br> | ||
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Chapter 5. Investigation of the Elements
(Space) - (nam mkha')
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།ནམ་མཁའི་མཚན་ཉིད་སྔ་རོལ་ན།
།ནམ་མཁའ་ཅུང་ཟད་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན།
།གལ་ཏེ་མཚན་ལས་སྔ་གྱུར་ན།
།མཚན་ཉིད་མེད་པར་ཐལ་བར་འགྱུར།།
1. nam mkha'i mtshan nyid snga rol na/
nam mkha' cung zad yod ma yin/
gal te mtshan las snga gyur na/
mtshan nyid med par thal bar 'gyur//
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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།མཚན་ཉིད་མེད་པའི་དངོས་པོ་ནི།
།འགའ་ཡང་གང་ནའང་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན།
།མཚན་ཉིད་མེད་པའི་དངོས་མེད་ན།
།མཚན་ཉིད་གང་དུ་འཇུག་པར་འགྱུར།།
2. mtshan nyid med pa'i dngos po ni/
'ga' yang gang na'ang yod ma yin/
mtshan nyid med pa'i dngos med na/
mtshan nyid gang du 'jug par 'gyur//
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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།མཚན་ཉིད་མེད་ལ་མཚན་ཉིད་ནི།
།མི་འཇུག་མཚན་ཉིད་བཅས་ལ་མིན།
།མཚན་བཅས་མཚན་ཉིད་མེད་པ་ལས།
།གཞན་ལའང་འཇུག་པར་མི་འགྱུར་ཨོར།།
3. mtshan nyid med la mtshan nyid ni/
mi 'jug mtshan nyid bcas la min/
mtshan bcas mtshan nyid med pa las/
gzhan la'ang 'jug par mi 'gyur ro//
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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།མཚན་ཉིད་འཇུག་པ་མ་ཡིན་ན།
།མཚན་གཞི་འཐད་པར་མི་འགྱུར་རོ།
།མཚན་གཞི་འཐད་པ་མ་ཡིན་ན།
།མཚན་ཉིད་ཀྱང་ནི་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན།།
4. mtshan nyid 'jug pa ma yin na/
mtshan gzhi 'thad par mi 'gyur ro/
mtshan gzhi 'thad pa ma yin na/
mtshan nyid kyang ni yod ma yin//
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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།དེ་ཕྱིར་མཚན་གཞི་ཡོད་མིན་ཏེ།
།མཚན་ཉིད་ཡོད་པ་ཉིད་མ་ཡིན།
།མཚན་གཞི་མཚན་ཉིད་མ་གཏོགས་པའི།
།དངོས་པོ་ཡང་ནི་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན།།
5. de phyir mtshan gzhi yod min te/
mtshan nyid yod pa nyid ma yin/
mtshan gzhi mtshan nyid ma gtogs pa'i/
dngos po yang ni yod ma yin//
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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།དངོས་པོ་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཡིན་ན།
།དངོས་མེད་གང་གི་ཡིན་པར་འགྱུར།
།དངོས་དང་དངོས་མེད་མི་མཐུན་ཆོས།
།གང་གིས་དངོས་དང་དངོས་མེད་ཤེས།།
6. dngos po yod pa ma yin na/
dngos med gang gi yin par 'gyur/
dngos dang dngos med mi mthun chos/
gang gis dngos dang dngos med shes//
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?
[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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།དེ་ཕྱིར་ནམ་མཁའ་དངོས་པོ་མིན།
།དངོས་མེད་མ་ཡིན་མཚན་གཞི་མིན།
།མཚན་ཉིད་མ་ཡིན་ཁམས་ལྔ་པོ།
།གཞན་གང་དག་ཀྱང་ནམ་མཁའ་མཚུངས།།
7. de phyir nam mkha' dngos po min/
dngos med ma yin mtshan gzhi min/
mtshan nyid ma yin khams lnga po/
gzhan gang dag kyang nam mkha' mtshungs//
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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།བློ་ཆུང་གང་དག་དངོས་རྣམས་ལ།
།ཡོད་པ་ཉིད་དང་མེད་ཉིད་དུ།
།བལྟ་བ་དེས་ནི་བལྟ་བྱ་བ།
།ཉེ་བར་ཞི་བ་ཞི་མི་མཐོང།།
8. blo chung gang dag dngos rnams la/
yod pa nyid dang med nyid du/
blta ba des ni blta bya ba/
nye bar zhi ba zhi mi mthong//
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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།ཁམས་བརྟག་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་སྟེ་རབ་ཏུ་བྱེད་པ་ལྔ་པའོ།།
khams brtag pa zhes bya ba ste rab tu byed pa lnga pa'o//