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5. Investigation of the Elements
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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/
'''Chapter 5. Investigation of the [[Elements]]'''
 
'''''(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>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།མཚན་ཉིད་མེད་པར་ཐལ་བར་འགྱུར།།</span><br>
 
1. [[nam mkha'i mtshan nyid]] [[snga rol]] [[na]]/<br>
[[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.


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/
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<span class=TibUni18>།མཚན་ཉིད་མེད་པའི་དངོས་པོ་ནི།</span><br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།འགའ་ཡང་གང་ནའང་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན།</span><br>
 
<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>
[['ga' yang]] [[gang na]]'ang [[yod ma yin]]/<br>
[[mtshan nyid med pa]]'i [[dngos med]] [[na]]/<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?


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/
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<span class=TibUni18>།མཚན་ཉིད་མེད་ལ་མཚན་ཉིད་ནི།</span><br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།མི་འཇུག་མཚན་ཉིད་བཅས་ལ་མིན།</span><br>
 
<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>
[[mi 'jug]] [[mtshan nyid]] [[bcas]] [[la]] [[min]]/<br>
[[mtshan bcas]] [[mtshan nyid med pa]] [[las]]/<br>
[[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.


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/
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<span class=TibUni18>།མཚན་ཉིད་འཇུག་པ་མ་ཡིན་ན།</span><br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།མཚན་གཞི་འཐད་པར་མི་འགྱུར་རོ།</span><br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།མཚན་གཞི་འཐད་པ་མ་ཡིན་ན།</span><br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།མཚན་ཉིད་ཀྱང་ནི་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན།།</span><br>
 
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.


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/
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<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ཕྱིར་མཚན་གཞི་ཡོད་མིན་ཏེ།</span><br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།མཚན་ཉིད་ཡོད་པ་ཉིད་མ་ཡིན།</span><br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།མཚན་གཞི་མཚན་ཉིད་མ་གཏོགས་པའི།</span><br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་པོ་ཡང་ནི་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན།།</span><br>
 
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.


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/
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<span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་པོ་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཡིན་ན།</span><br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་མེད་གང་གི་ཡིན་པར་འགྱུར།</span><br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་དང་དངོས་མེད་མི་མཐུན་ཆོས།</span><br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།གང་གིས་དངོས་དང་དངོས་མེད་ཤེས།།</span><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?


[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.]
 
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<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ཕྱིར་ནམ་མཁའ་དངོས་པོ་མིན།</span><br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་མེད་མ་ཡིན་མཚན་གཞི་མིན།</span><br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།མཚན་ཉིད་མ་ཡིན་ཁམས་ལྔ་པོ།</span><br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།གཞན་གང་དག་ཀྱང་ནམ་མཁའ་མཚུངས།།</span><br>


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. [[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.


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/
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<span class=TibUni18>།བློ་ཆུང་གང་དག་དངོས་རྣམས་ལ།</span><br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།ཡོད་པ་ཉིད་དང་མེད་ཉིད་དུ།</span><br>
 
<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>
[[yod pa nyid]] [[dang]] [[med nyid]] [[du]]/<br>
[[blta ba]] [[des]] [[ni]] [[blta bya]] [[ba]]/<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.  


khams brtag pa zhes bya ba ste rab tu byed pa lnga pa'o/ // /
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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>
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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།།

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