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'''21. Investigation of Rising and Passing'''
 
'''Chapter 21. Investigation of Rising and Passing'''


'''''(Disappearance)'''''
'''''(Disappearance)'''''


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<span class=TibUni18>།འཇིག་པ་འབྱུང་བ་མེད་པར་རམ།</span><br>


1. 'jig pa 'byung ba med par ram/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།ལྷན་ཅིག་ཡོད་པ་ཉིད་མ་ཡིན།</span><br>
lhan cig yod pa nyid ma yin/<br>
 
'byung ba 'jig pa med par ram/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།འབྱུང་བ་འཇིག་པ་མེད་པར་རམ།</span><br>
lhan cig yod pa nyid ma yin /<br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།ལྷན་ཅིག་ཡོད་པ་ཉིད་མ་ཡིན།།</span><br>
 
1. /[['jig pa]] [['byung ba med pa]]r [[ram]]/<br>
/[[lhan cig yod pa]] [[nyid]] [[ma yin]]/<br>
/[['byung ba]] [['jig pa med pa]]r [[ram]]/<br>
/[[lhan cig yod pa]] [[nyid]] [[ma yin]]//


1. Passing does not exist without or together with rising. Rising does not exist without or together with passing.
1. Passing does not exist without or together with rising. Rising does not exist without or together with passing.


[The Sanskrit terms sambhava ([['byung ba]] - rising) and vibhava ([['jig pa - passing) are related to bhava ([[dgnos po]] - thing); also cf. svabhava and parabhava. So "appearance" and "disappearance" would capture the play on the two words. Note also that in verses 15-16 the Tib. [['byung]] - [['jig]] does not translate sambhava / vibhava, but udaya / vyaya].
[The Sanskrit terms sambhava ([['byung ba]] - rising) and vibhava ([['jig pa]] - passing) are related to bhava ([[dngos po]] - thing); also cf. svabhava and parabhava. So "appearance" and "disappearance" would capture the play on the two words. Note also that in verses 15-16 the Tib. [['byung]] - [['jig]] does not translate sambhava / vibhava, but udaya / vyaya].


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<span class=TibUni18>།འཇིག་པ་འབྱུང་བ་མེད་པར་ནི།</span><br>


2. 'jig pa 'byung ba med par ni/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།ཇི་ལྟ་བུར་ན་ཡོད་པར་འགྱུར།</span><br>
ji lta bur na yod par 'gyur/<br>
 
skye ba med par 'chi bar 'gyur/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།སྐྱེ་བ་མེད་པར་འཆི་བར་འགྱུར།</span><br>
'jig pa 'byung ba med par med /<br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།འཇིག་པ་འབྱུང་བ་མེད་པར་མེད།།</span><br>
 
2. /[['jig pa]] [['byung ba med pa]]r [[ni]]/<br>
/[[ji lta bur na]] [[yod par 'gyur]]/<br>
/[[skye ba med pa]]r [['chi ba]]r [['gyur]]/<br>
/[['jig pa]] [['byung ba med pa]]r [[med]]//


2. How can passing exist without rising? Is there death without birth? There is no passing without rising.
2. How can passing exist without rising? Is there death without birth? There is no passing without rising.


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<span class=TibUni18>།འཇིག་པ་འབྱུང་དང་ལྷན་ཅིག་ཏུ།</span><br>
<span class=TibUni18>།ཇི་ལྟར་ཡོད་པ་ཉིད་དུ་འགྱུར།</span><br>


<span class=TibUni18>།འཆི་བ་སྐྱེ་དང་དུས་གཅིག་ཏུ།</span><br>


3. 'jig pa 'byung dang lhan cig tu/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།ཡོད་པ་ཉིད་ནི་མ་ཡིན་ནོ།།</span><br>
ji ltar yod pa nyid du 'gyur/<br>
 
'chi ba skye dang dus gcig tu/<br>
3. /[['jig pa]] [['byung]] [[dang]] [[lhan cig tu]]/<br>
yod pa nyid ni ma yin no /<br>
/[[ji ltar]] [[yod pa]] [[nyid du]] [['gyur]]/<br>
/[['chi ba]] [[skye]] [[dang du]]s [[gcig tu]]/<br>
/[[yod pa nyid]] [[ni]] [[ma yin no]]//


3. How could passing exist together with rising? Death does not exist at the same time as birth.  
3. How could passing exist together with rising? Death does not exist at the same time as birth.  


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<span class=TibUni18>།འབྱུང་བ་འཇིག་པ་མེད་པར་ནི།</span><br>


4. 'byung ba 'jig pa med par ni/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།ཇི་ལྟ་བུར་ན་ཡོད་པར་འགྱུར།</span><br>
ji lta bur na yod par 'gyur*/<br>
dngos po rnams la mi rtag nyid/<br>
nam yang med pa ma yin no /<br>


['''Lha.''' *ji ltar yod pa nyid du 'gyur]
<span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་པོ་རྣམས་ལ་མི་རྟག་ཉིད།</span><br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།ནམ་ཡང་མེད་པ་མ་ཡིན་ནོ།།</span><br>
 
4. /[['byung ba]] [['jig pa med pa]]r [[ni]]/<br>
/[[ji lta bur na]] [[yod par 'gyur]]*/<br>
/[[dngos po rnams]] [[la]] [[mi rtag]] [[nyid]]/<br>
/[[nam yang med pa]] [[ma yin no]]//
 
['''Lha.''' *[[ji ltar]] [[yod pa]] [[nyid du]] [['gyur]]]


4. How could rising exist without passing? Things are never not impermanent.
4. How could rising exist without passing? Things are never not impermanent.


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<span class=TibUni18>།འབྱུང་བ་འཇིག་དང་ལྷན་ཅིག་ཏུ།</span><br>


5. 'byung ba 'jig dang lhan cig tu/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།ཇི་ལྟར་ཡོད་པ་ཉིད་དུ་འགྱུར།</span><br>
ji ltar yod pa nyid du 'gyur/<br>
 
skye ba 'chi dang dus gcig tu/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།སྐྱེ་བ་འཆི་དང་དུས་གཅིག་ཏུ།</span><br>
yod pa nyid ni ma yin no /<br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།ཡོད་པ་ཉིད་ནི་མ་ཡིན་ནོ།།</span><br>
 
5. /[['byung ba]] [['jig]] [[dang]] [[lhan cig tu]]/<br>
/[[ji ltar]] [[yod pa nyid]] [[du]] [['gyur]]/<br>
/[[skye ba]] [['chi]] [[dang du]]s [[gcig tu]]/<br>
/[[yod pa nyid]] [[ni]] [[ma yin no]]//


5. How could rising exist together with passing? Birth does not exist at the same time as death.
5. How could rising exist together with passing? Birth does not exist at the same time as death.


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<span class=TibUni18>།གང་དག་ཕན་ཚུན་ལྷན་ཅིག་གམ།</span><br>


6. gang dag phan tshun lhan cig gam/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།ཕན་ཚུན་ལྷན་ཅིག་མ་ཡིན་པར།</span><br>
phan tshun lhan cig ma yin par/<br>
 
grub pa yod pa ma yin pa/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།གྲུབ་པ་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཡིན་པ།</span><br>
de dag grub pa ji ltar yod /<br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་དག་གྲུབ་པ་ཇི་ལྟར་ཡོད།།</span><br>
 
6. /[[gang dag]] [[phan tshun]] [[lhan cig]] [[gam]]/<br>
/[[phan tshun]] [[lhan cig]] [[ma yin par]]/<br>
/[[grub pa]] [[yod pa]] [[ma yin pa]]/<br>
/[[de dag]] [[grub pa]] [[ji ltar]] [[yod]]//


6. How can those that are not established either mutually together or not mutually together be established?
6. How can those that are not established either mutually together or not mutually together be established?


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<span class=TibUni18>།ཟད་ལ་འབྱུང་བ་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན།</span><br>


7. zad la 'byung ba yod ma yin/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།མ་ཟད་པ་ལའང་འབྱུང་བ་མེད།</span><br>
ma zad pa la'ang 'byung ba med/<br>
 
zad la 'jig pa yod ma yin/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།ཟད་ལ་འཇིག་པ་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན།</span><br>
ma zad pa la'ang 'jig pa med /<br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།མ་ཟད་པ་ལའང་འཇིག་པ་མེད།།</span><br>
 
7. /[[zad]] [[la]] [['byung ba]] [[yod ma yin]]/<br>
/[[ma zad]] [[pa]] [[la'ang]] [['byung ba]] [[med]]/<br>
/[[zad]] [[la]] [['jig pa]] [[yod ma yin]]/<br>
/[[ma zad]] [[pa]] [[la'ang]] [['jig pa med]]//


7. The finished does not rise; the unfinished too does not rise; the finished does not pass; the unfinished too does not pass.
7. The finished does not rise; the unfinished too does not rise; the finished does not pass; the unfinished too does not pass.


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<span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་པོ་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཡིན་པར།</span><br>


8. dngos po yod pa ma yin par/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།འབྱུང་དང་འཇིག་པ་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན།</span><br>
'byung dang 'jig pa yod ma yin/<br>
 
'byung dang 'jig pa med par ni/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།འབྱུང་དང་འཇིག་པ་མེད་པར་ནི།</span><br>
dngos po yod pa ma yin no /<br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་པོ་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཡིན་ནོ།།</span><br>
 
8. /[[dngos po yod pa]] [[ma yin par]]/<br>
/[['byung]] [[dang]] [['jig pa]] [[yod ma yin]]/<br>
/[['byung]] [[dang]] [['jig pa med pa]]r [[ni]]/<br>
/[[dngos po yod pa]] [[ma yin no]]//


8. Rising and passing do not exist without the existence of things. Things do not exist without the existence of rising and passing.  
8. Rising and passing do not exist without the existence of things. Things do not exist without the existence of rising and passing.  


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<span class=TibUni18>།སྟོང་ལ་འབྱུང་དང་འཇིག་པ་དག།</span><br>


9. stong la* 'byung dang 'jig pa dag/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།འཐད་པ་ཉིད་ནི་མ་ཡིན་ནོ།</span><br>
'thad pa nyid ni ma yin no/<br>
mi stong pa la'ang 'byung 'jig dag/<br>
'thad pa nyid ni ma yin no /<br>


['''Lha.''' *las.  '''Ts.''' *la]  
<span class=TibUni18>།མི་སྟོང་པ་ལའང་འབྱུང་འཇིག་དག།</span><br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།འཐད་པ་ཉིད་ནི་མ་ཡིན་ནོ།།</span><br>
 
9. /[[stong]] [[la]]* [['byung]] [[dang]] [['jig pa]] [[dag]]/<br>
/[['thad pa]] [[nyid]] [[ni]] [[ma yin no]]/<br>
/[[mi stong pa]] [[la'ang]] [['byung]] [['jig]] [[dag]]/<br>
/[['thad pa]] [[nyid]] [[ni]] [[ma yin no]]//
 
['''Lha.''' *[[las]].  '''Ts.''' *[[la]]]  


9. Rising and passing are not possible for the empty; rising, passing are not possible for the non-empty also.
9. Rising and passing are not possible for the empty; rising, passing are not possible for the non-empty also.


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<span class=TibUni18>།འབྱུང་བ་དང་ནི་འཇིག་པ་དག།</span><br>
<span class=TibUni18>།གཅིག་པ་ཉིད་དུ་མི་འཐད་དོ།</span><br>
<span class=TibUni18>།འབྱུང་བ་དང་ནི་འཇིག་པ་དག།</span><br>


<span class=TibUni18>།གཞན་ཉིད་དུ་ཡང་མི་འཐད་དོ།།</span><br>


10. 'byung ba dang ni 'jig pa dag/<br>
10. /[['byung ba]] [[dang]] [[ni]] [['jig pa]] [[dag]]/<br>
gcig pa nyid du* mi 'thad do/<br>
/[[gcig pa nyid]] [[du]]* [[mi 'thad]] [[do]]/<br>
'byung ba dang ni 'jig pa dag/<br>
/[['byung ba]] [[dang]] [[ni]] [['jig pa]] [[dag]]/<br>
gzhan nyid du yang** mi 'thad do /<br>
/[[gzhan nyid]] [[du]] [[yang]]** [[mi 'thad]] [[do]]//


['''Lha.''' *ni.  **gzhan pa nyid du'ang]
['''Lha.''' *[[ni]].  **[[gzhan pa]] [[nyid du]][['ang]]]


10. Rising and passing cannot possibly be one; rising and passing also cannot possibly be other.
10. Rising and passing cannot possibly be one; rising and passing also cannot possibly be other.


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<span class=TibUni18>།འབྱུང་བ་དང་ནི་འཇིག་པ་དག།</span><br>
<span class=TibUni18>།མཐོང་ངོ་སྙམ་དུ་ཁྱོད་སེམས་ན།</span><br>


<span class=TibUni18>།འབྱུང་བ་དང་ནི་འཇིག་པ་དག།</span><br>


11. 'byung ba dang ni 'jig pa dag/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།གཏི་མུག་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་མཐོང་བ་ཡིན།།</span><br>
mthong ngo snyam du khyod sems na/<br>
 
'byung ba dang ni 'jig pa dag/<br>
11. /[['byung ba]] [[dang]] [[ni]] [['jig pa]] [[dag]]/<br>
gti mug nyid kyis mthong ba yin /<br>
/[[mthong ngo]] [[snyam du]] [[khyod]] [[sems na]]/<br>
/[['byung ba]] [[dang]] [[ni]] [['jig pa]] [[dag]]/<br>
/[[gti mug]] [[nyid kyi]]s [[mthong ba]] [[yin]]//


11. If you think that you can see rising and passing, rising and passing are seen by delusion.
11. If you think that you can see rising and passing, rising and passing are seen by delusion.


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<span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་པོ་དངོས་ལས་མི་སྐྱེ་སྟེ།</span><br>


12. dngos po dngos las mi skye ste/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་པོ་དངོས་མེད་ལས་མི་སྐྱེ།</span><br>
dngos po dngos med las mi skye/<br>
 
dngos med dngos med mi skye ste/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་མེད་དངོས་མེད་མི་སྐྱེ་སྟེ།</span><br>
dngos med dngos las mi skye'o /<br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་མེད་དངོས་ལས་མི་སྐྱེའོ།།</span><br>
 
12. /[[dngos po]] [[dngos la]]s [[mi skye]] [[ste]]/<br>
/[[dngos po]] [[dngos med]] [[las mi]] [[skye]]/<br>
/[[dngos med]] [[dngos med]] [[mi skye]] [[ste]]/<br>
/[[dngos med]] [[dngos la]]s [[mi skye]][['o]]//


12. Things are not created from things; things are not created from nothing; nothing is not created from nothing; nothing is not created from things.
12. Things are not created from things; things are not created from nothing; nothing is not created from nothing; nothing is not created from things.


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<span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་པོ་བདག་ལས་མི་སྐྱེ་སྟེ།</span><br>


13. dngos po bdag las mi skye ste/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།གཞན་ལས་སྐྱེ་བ་ཉིད་མ་ཡིན།</span><br>
gzhan las skye ba nyid ma yin/<br>
bdag dang gzhan las skye ba ni/<br>
yod min* ji ltar skye bar 'gyur /<br>


['''Lha.''' *na]
<span class=TibUni18>།བདག་དང་གཞན་ལས་སྐྱེ་བ་ནི།</span><br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།ཡོད་མིན་ཇི་ལྟར་སྐྱེ་བར་འགྱུར།།</span><br>
 
13. /[[dngos po bdag]] [[las mi]] [[skye]] [[ste]]/<br>
/[[gzhan las skye ba]] [[nyid]] [[ma yin]]/<br>
/[[bdag dang gzhan]] [[las]] [[skye ba]] [[ni]]/<br>
/[[yod min]] [[ji ltar]] [[skye bar 'gyur]]//
 
['''Lha.''' *[[na]]]


13. Things are not created from themselves, nor are they created from something else; they are not created from [both] themselves and something else. How are they created?
13. Things are not created from themselves, nor are they created from something else; they are not created from [both] themselves and something else. How are they created?


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<span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་པོ་ཡོད་པར་ཁས་བླངས་ན།</span><br>
<span class=TibUni18>།རྟག་དང་ཆད་པར་ལྟ་བར་ནི།</span><br>


<span class=TibUni18>།ཐལ་བར་འགྱུར་ཏེ་དངོས་དེ་ནི།</span><br>


14. dngos po yod par khas blangs na/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།རྟག་དང་མི་རྟག་འགྱུར་ཕྱིར་རོ།།</span><br>
rtag dang chad par lta bar ni/<br>
 
thal bar 'gyur te dngos de ni/<br>
14. /[[dngos po yod pa]]r [[khas blangs]] [[na]]/<br>
rtag dang mi rtag 'gyur phyir ro /<br>
/[[rtag dang chad pa]]r [[lta ba]]r [[ni]]/<br>
/[[thal bar 'gyur]] [[te]] [[dngos]] [[de ni]]/<br>
/[[rtag]] [[dang]] [[mi rtag]] [['gyur]] [[phyir]] [[ro]]//


14. If you assert the existence of things, the views of eternalism and annihilationism will follow, because things are permanent and impermanent.
14. If you assert the existence of things, the views of eternalism and annihilationism will follow, because things are permanent and impermanent.


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<span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་པོ་ཡོད་པར་ཁས་བླངས་ཀྱང།</span><br>


15. dngos po yod par khas blangs kyang/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།ཆད་པར་མི་འགྱུར་རྟག་མི་འགྱུར།</span><br>
chad par mi 'gyur rtag mi 'gyur/<br>
 
'bras bu rgyu yi 'byung 'jig gi/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།འབྲས་བུ་རྒྱུ་ཡི་འབྱུང་འཇིག་གི།</span><br>
rgyun de srid pa yin phyir ro /<br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།རྒྱུན་དེ་སྲིད་པ་ཡིན་ཕྱིར་རོ།།</span><br>
 
15. /[[dngos po yod pa]]r [[khas blangs]] [[kyang]]/<br>
/[[chad pa]]r [[mi 'gyur]] [[rtag mi 'gyur]]/<br>
/[['bras bu]] [[rgyu]] [[yi]] [['byung]] [['jig]] [[gi]]/<br>
/[[rgyun]] [[de srid]] [[pa yin]] [[phyir]] [[ro]]//


15. If you assert the existence of things, eternalism and annihilationism will not be, because the continuity of the rising and passing of cause -effect is becoming.
15. If you assert the existence of things, eternalism and annihilationism will not be, because the continuity of the rising and passing of cause -effect is becoming.


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<span class=TibUni18>།འབྲས་བུ་རྒྱུ་ཡི་འབྱུང་འཇིག་གི།</span><br>
<span class=TibUni18>།རྒྱུན་དེ་སྲིད་པ་ཡིན་འགྱུར་ན།</span><br>
<span class=TibUni18>།འཇིག་ལ་ཡང་སྐྱེ་མེད་པའི་ཕྱིར།</span><br>


<span class=TibUni18>།རྒྱུ་ནི་ཆད་པར་ཐལ་བར་འགྱུར།།</span><br>


16. 'bras bu rgyu yi* 'byung 'jig gi/<br>
16. /[['bras bu]] [[rgyu]] [[yi]]* [['byung]] [['jig]] [[gi]]/<br>
rgyun de srid pa yin 'gyur na/<br>
/[[rgyun]] [[de srid]] [[pa yin]] [['gyur]] [[na]]/<br>
'jig la yang skye med pa'i phyir/<br>
/[['jig]] [[la yang]] [[skye med pa]]'i [[phyir]]/<br>
rgyu ni chad par thal bar 'gyur /<br>
/[[rgyu]] [[ni]] [[chad pa]]r [[thal bar 'gyur]]//


['''Lha.''' *gal te 'bras rgyu'i]
['''Lha.''' *[[gal te]] [['bras]] [[rgyu'i]]]


16. If the continuity of the rising and passing of cause-effect is becoming, because what has passed will not be created again, it will follow that the cause is annihilated.
16. If the continuity of the rising and passing of cause-effect is becoming, because what has passed will not be created again, it will follow that the cause is annihilated.


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<span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་པོ་ངོ་བོ་ཉིད་ཡོད་ན།</span><br>
<span class=TibUni18>།དངོས་མེད་འགྱུར་བར་མི་རིགས་སོ།</span><br>
<span class=TibUni18>།མྱ་ངན་འདས་པའི་དུས་ན་ཆད།</span><br>


<span class=TibUni18>།སྲིད་རྒྱུན་རབ་ཏུ་ཞི་ཕྱིར་རོ།།</span><br>


17. dngos po ngo bo nyid yod na/<br>
17. /[[dngos po]] [[ngo bo nyid]] [[yod na]]/<br>
dngos med 'gyur bar mi rigs so/<br>
/[[dngos med]] [['gyur ba]]r [[mi rigs]] [[so]]/<br>
mya ngan 'das pa'i dus na chad/<br>
/[[mya ngan 'das pa]]'i [[dus na]] [[chad]]/<br>
srid rgyun rab tu zhi phyir ro /<br>
/[[srid]] [[rgyun]] [[rab tu zhi]] [[phyir]] [[ro]]//


17. If things exist essentially, it would be unreasonable [for them] to become nothing. At the time of nirvana [they] would be annihilated, because the continuity of becoming is totally pacified.
17. If things exist essentially, it would be unreasonable [for them] to become nothing. At the time of nirvana [they] would be annihilated, because the continuity of becoming is totally pacified.


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<span class=TibUni18>།ཐ་མ་འགགས་པར་གྱུར་པ་ན།</span><br>


18. tha ma 'gags par gyur pa na/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།སྲིད་པ་དང་པོ་རིགས་མི་འགྱུར།</span><br>
srid pa dang po rigs mi 'gyur/<br>
 
tha ma 'gags par ma gyur tshe/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།ཐ་མ་འགགས་པར་མ་གྱུར་ཚེ།</span><br>
srid pa dang po rigs mi 'gyur /<br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།སྲིད་པ་དང་པོ་རིགས་མི་འགྱུར།།</span><br>
 
18. /[[tha ma]] [['gags pa]]r [[gyur pa]] [[na]]/<br>
/[[srid pa]] [[dang po]] [[rigs]] [[mi 'gyur]]/<br>
/[[tha ma]] [['gags pa]]r [[ma gyur]] [[tshe]]/<br>
/[[srid pa]] [[dang po]] [[rigs]] [[mi 'gyur]]//


18. If the end stops, it is unreasonable for there to be a beginning of becoming. When the end does not stop, it is unreasonable for there to be a beginning of becoming.
18. If the end stops, it is unreasonable for there to be a beginning of becoming. When the end does not stop, it is unreasonable for there to be a beginning of becoming.


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<span class=TibUni18>།གལ་ཏེ་ཐ་མ་འགག་བཞིན་ན།</span><br>


19. gal te tha ma 'gag bzhin na/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།དང་པོ་སྐྱེ་བར་འགྱུར་ན་ནི།</span><br>
dang po skye bar 'gyur na ni/<br>
 
'gag bzhin pa ni gcig 'gyur zhing/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།འགག་བཞིན་པ་ནི་གཅིག་འགྱུར་ཞིང།</span><br>
skye bzhin pa yang gzhan du 'gyur /<br>
 
<span class=TibUni18>།སྐྱེ་བཞིན་པ་ཡང་གཞན་དུ་འགྱུར།།</span><br>
 
19. /[[gal te]] [[tha ma]] [['gag]] [[bzhin]] [[na]]/<br>
/[[dang po]] [[skye bar 'gyur]] [[na]] [[ni]]/<br>
/[['gag]] [[bzhin pa]] [[ni]] [[gcig 'gyur]] [[zhing]]/<br>
/[[skye bzhin pa]] [[yang]] [[gzhan du]] [['gyur]]//


19. If the beginning is created while the end is stopping, the stopping would be one and the creating would be another.
19. If the beginning is created while the end is stopping, the stopping would be one and the creating would be another.


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<span class=TibUni18>།གལ་ཏེ་འགག་བཞིན་སྐྱེ་བཞིན་དག།</span><br>


<span class=TibUni18>།ལྷན་ཅིག་ཏུ་ཡང་རིགས་མིན་ན།</span><br>


20. gal te 'gag bzhin skye bzhin dag/<br>
<span class=TibUni18>།ཕུང་པོ་གང་ལ་འཆི་འགྱུར་བ།</span><br>
lhan cig tu yang rigs min na/<br>
phung po gang la 'chi 'gyur ba/<br>
de la skye ba* 'byung 'gyur ram /<br>


['''Lha.''' *ba'ang]  
<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ལ་སྐྱེ་བ་འབྱུང་འགྱུར་རམ།།</span><br>
 
20. /[[gal te]] [['gag]] [[bzhin]] [[skye]] [[bzhin]] [[dag]]/<br>
/[[lhan cig tu]] [[yang]] [[rigs]] [[min na]]/<br>
/[[phung po]] [[gang la]] [['chi]] [['gyur ba]]/<br>
/[[de la]] [[skye ba]]* [['byung 'gyur]] [[ram]]//
 
['''Lha.''' *[[ba]][['ang]]]  


20. If it is also unreasonable for stopping and creating to be together, aren't the aggregates that die also those that are created?
20. If it is also unreasonable for stopping and creating to be together, aren't the aggregates that die also those that are created?


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<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ལྟར་དུས་གསུམ་དག་ཏུ་ཡང།</span><br>
<span class=TibUni18>།སྲིད་པའི་རྒྱུན་ནི་མི་རིགས་ན།</span><br>
<span class=TibUni18>།དུས་གསུམ་དག་ཏུ་གང་མེད་པ།</span><br>
<span class=TibUni18>།དེ་ནི་ཇི་ལྟར་སྲིད་པའི་རྒྱུན།།</span><br>
21. /[[de ltar du]]s [[gsum]] [[dag]] [[tu]] [[yang]]/<br>
/[[srid pa'i rgyun]] [[ni]] [[mi rigs]] [[na]]/<br>
/[[dus gsum]] [[dag]] [[tu]] [[gang med pa]]/<br>
/[[de ni]] [[ji ltar]] [[srid pa'i rgyun]]//
21. Likewise, if the continuity of becoming is not reasonable at any of the [[three times]], how can there be a continuity of becoming which is non-existent in the three times?
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<span class=TibUni18>།འབྱུང་བ་དང་འཇིག་པ་བརྟག་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་སྟེ་རབ་ཏུ་བྱེད་པ་ཉི་ཤུ་གཅིག་པའོ།།</span><br>


21. de ltar dus gsum dag tu yang/<br>
/[['byung ba]] [[dang]] [['jig pa]] [[brtag pa]] [[zhes bya ba]] [[ste]] [[rab tu byed pa]] [[nyi shu]] [[gcig pa]][['o]]//
srid pa'i rgyun ni mi rigs na/<br>
dus gsum dag tu gang med pa/<br>
de ni ji ltar srid pa'i rgyun /<br>


21. Likewise, if the continuity of becoming is not reasonable at any of the three times, how can there be a continuity of becoming which isnon-existent in the three times?


'byung ba dang 'jig pa brtag pa zhes bya ba ste rab tu byed pa nyi shu gcig pa'o //<br>
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Chapter 21. Investigation of Rising and Passing

(Disappearance)

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།འཇིག་པ་འབྱུང་བ་མེད་པར་རམ།

།ལྷན་ཅིག་ཡོད་པ་ཉིད་མ་ཡིན།

།འབྱུང་བ་འཇིག་པ་མེད་པར་རམ།

།ལྷན་ཅིག་ཡོད་པ་ཉིད་མ་ཡིན།།

1. /'jig pa 'byung ba med par ram/
/lhan cig yod pa nyid ma yin/
/'byung ba 'jig pa med par ram/
/lhan cig yod pa nyid ma yin//

1. Passing does not exist without or together with rising. Rising does not exist without or together with passing.

[The Sanskrit terms sambhava ('byung ba - rising) and vibhava ('jig pa - passing) are related to bhava (dngos po - thing); also cf. svabhava and parabhava. So "appearance" and "disappearance" would capture the play on the two words. Note also that in verses 15-16 the Tib. 'byung - 'jig does not translate sambhava / vibhava, but udaya / vyaya].

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།འཇིག་པ་འབྱུང་བ་མེད་པར་ནི།

།ཇི་ལྟ་བུར་ན་ཡོད་པར་འགྱུར།

།སྐྱེ་བ་མེད་པར་འཆི་བར་འགྱུར།

།འཇིག་པ་འབྱུང་བ་མེད་པར་མེད།།

2. /'jig pa 'byung ba med par ni/
/ji lta bur na yod par 'gyur/
/skye ba med par 'chi bar 'gyur/
/'jig pa 'byung ba med par med//

2. How can passing exist without rising? Is there death without birth? There is no passing without rising.

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།འཇིག་པ་འབྱུང་དང་ལྷན་ཅིག་ཏུ།

།ཇི་ལྟར་ཡོད་པ་ཉིད་དུ་འགྱུར།

།འཆི་བ་སྐྱེ་དང་དུས་གཅིག་ཏུ།

།ཡོད་པ་ཉིད་ནི་མ་ཡིན་ནོ།།

3. /'jig pa 'byung dang lhan cig tu/
/ji ltar yod pa nyid du 'gyur/
/'chi ba skye dang dus gcig tu/
/yod pa nyid ni ma yin no//

3. How could passing exist together with rising? Death does not exist at the same time as birth.

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།འབྱུང་བ་འཇིག་པ་མེད་པར་ནི།

།ཇི་ལྟ་བུར་ན་ཡོད་པར་འགྱུར།

།དངོས་པོ་རྣམས་ལ་མི་རྟག་ཉིད།

།ནམ་ཡང་མེད་པ་མ་ཡིན་ནོ།།

4. /'byung ba 'jig pa med par ni/
/ji lta bur na yod par 'gyur*/
/dngos po rnams la mi rtag nyid/
/nam yang med pa ma yin no//

[Lha. *ji ltar yod pa nyid du 'gyur]

4. How could rising exist without passing? Things are never not impermanent.

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།འབྱུང་བ་འཇིག་དང་ལྷན་ཅིག་ཏུ།

།ཇི་ལྟར་ཡོད་པ་ཉིད་དུ་འགྱུར།

།སྐྱེ་བ་འཆི་དང་དུས་གཅིག་ཏུ།

།ཡོད་པ་ཉིད་ནི་མ་ཡིན་ནོ།།

5. /'byung ba 'jig dang lhan cig tu/
/ji ltar yod pa nyid du 'gyur/
/skye ba 'chi dang dus gcig tu/
/yod pa nyid ni ma yin no//

5. How could rising exist together with passing? Birth does not exist at the same time as death.

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།གང་དག་ཕན་ཚུན་ལྷན་ཅིག་གམ།

།ཕན་ཚུན་ལྷན་ཅིག་མ་ཡིན་པར།

།གྲུབ་པ་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཡིན་པ།

།དེ་དག་གྲུབ་པ་ཇི་ལྟར་ཡོད།།

6. /gang dag phan tshun lhan cig gam/
/phan tshun lhan cig ma yin par/
/grub pa yod pa ma yin pa/
/de dag grub pa ji ltar yod//

6. How can those that are not established either mutually together or not mutually together be established?

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།ཟད་ལ་འབྱུང་བ་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན།

།མ་ཟད་པ་ལའང་འབྱུང་བ་མེད།

།ཟད་ལ་འཇིག་པ་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན།

།མ་ཟད་པ་ལའང་འཇིག་པ་མེད།།

7. /zad la 'byung ba yod ma yin/
/ma zad pa la'ang 'byung ba med/
/zad la 'jig pa yod ma yin/
/ma zad pa la'ang 'jig pa med//

7. The finished does not rise; the unfinished too does not rise; the finished does not pass; the unfinished too does not pass.

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།དངོས་པོ་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཡིན་པར།

།འབྱུང་དང་འཇིག་པ་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན།

།འབྱུང་དང་འཇིག་པ་མེད་པར་ནི།

།དངོས་པོ་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཡིན་ནོ།།

8. /dngos po yod pa ma yin par/
/'byung dang 'jig pa yod ma yin/
/'byung dang 'jig pa med par ni/
/dngos po yod pa ma yin no//

8. Rising and passing do not exist without the existence of things. Things do not exist without the existence of rising and passing.

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།སྟོང་ལ་འབྱུང་དང་འཇིག་པ་དག།

།འཐད་པ་ཉིད་ནི་མ་ཡིན་ནོ།

།མི་སྟོང་པ་ལའང་འབྱུང་འཇིག་དག།

།འཐད་པ་ཉིད་ནི་མ་ཡིན་ནོ།།

9. /stong la* 'byung dang 'jig pa dag/
/'thad pa nyid ni ma yin no/
/mi stong pa la'ang 'byung 'jig dag/
/'thad pa nyid ni ma yin no//

[Lha. *las. Ts. *la]

9. Rising and passing are not possible for the empty; rising, passing are not possible for the non-empty also.

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།འབྱུང་བ་དང་ནི་འཇིག་པ་དག།

།གཅིག་པ་ཉིད་དུ་མི་འཐད་དོ།

།འབྱུང་བ་དང་ནི་འཇིག་པ་དག།

།གཞན་ཉིད་དུ་ཡང་མི་འཐད་དོ།།

10. /'byung ba dang ni 'jig pa dag/
/gcig pa nyid du* mi 'thad do/
/'byung ba dang ni 'jig pa dag/
/gzhan nyid du yang** mi 'thad do//

[Lha. *ni. **gzhan pa nyid du'ang]

10. Rising and passing cannot possibly be one; rising and passing also cannot possibly be other.

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།འབྱུང་བ་དང་ནི་འཇིག་པ་དག།

།མཐོང་ངོ་སྙམ་དུ་ཁྱོད་སེམས་ན།

།འབྱུང་བ་དང་ནི་འཇིག་པ་དག།

།གཏི་མུག་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་མཐོང་བ་ཡིན།།

11. /'byung ba dang ni 'jig pa dag/
/mthong ngo snyam du khyod sems na/
/'byung ba dang ni 'jig pa dag/
/gti mug nyid kyis mthong ba yin//

11. If you think that you can see rising and passing, rising and passing are seen by delusion.

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།དངོས་པོ་དངོས་ལས་མི་སྐྱེ་སྟེ།

།དངོས་པོ་དངོས་མེད་ལས་མི་སྐྱེ།

།དངོས་མེད་དངོས་མེད་མི་སྐྱེ་སྟེ།

།དངོས་མེད་དངོས་ལས་མི་སྐྱེའོ།།

12. /dngos po dngos las mi skye ste/
/dngos po dngos med las mi skye/
/dngos med dngos med mi skye ste/
/dngos med dngos las mi skye'o//

12. Things are not created from things; things are not created from nothing; nothing is not created from nothing; nothing is not created from things.

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།དངོས་པོ་བདག་ལས་མི་སྐྱེ་སྟེ།

།གཞན་ལས་སྐྱེ་བ་ཉིད་མ་ཡིན།

།བདག་དང་གཞན་ལས་སྐྱེ་བ་ནི།

།ཡོད་མིན་ཇི་ལྟར་སྐྱེ་བར་འགྱུར།།

13. /dngos po bdag las mi skye ste/
/gzhan las skye ba nyid ma yin/
/bdag dang gzhan las skye ba ni/
/yod min ji ltar skye bar 'gyur//

[Lha. *na]

13. Things are not created from themselves, nor are they created from something else; they are not created from [both] themselves and something else. How are they created?

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།དངོས་པོ་ཡོད་པར་ཁས་བླངས་ན།

།རྟག་དང་ཆད་པར་ལྟ་བར་ནི།

།ཐལ་བར་འགྱུར་ཏེ་དངོས་དེ་ནི།

།རྟག་དང་མི་རྟག་འགྱུར་ཕྱིར་རོ།།

14. /dngos po yod par khas blangs na/
/rtag dang chad par lta bar ni/
/thal bar 'gyur te dngos de ni/
/rtag dang mi rtag 'gyur phyir ro//

14. If you assert the existence of things, the views of eternalism and annihilationism will follow, because things are permanent and impermanent.

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།དངོས་པོ་ཡོད་པར་ཁས་བླངས་ཀྱང།

།ཆད་པར་མི་འགྱུར་རྟག་མི་འགྱུར།

།འབྲས་བུ་རྒྱུ་ཡི་འབྱུང་འཇིག་གི།

།རྒྱུན་དེ་སྲིད་པ་ཡིན་ཕྱིར་རོ།།

15. /dngos po yod par khas blangs kyang/
/chad par mi 'gyur rtag mi 'gyur/
/'bras bu rgyu yi 'byung 'jig gi/
/rgyun de srid pa yin phyir ro//

15. If you assert the existence of things, eternalism and annihilationism will not be, because the continuity of the rising and passing of cause -effect is becoming.

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།འབྲས་བུ་རྒྱུ་ཡི་འབྱུང་འཇིག་གི།

།རྒྱུན་དེ་སྲིད་པ་ཡིན་འགྱུར་ན།

།འཇིག་ལ་ཡང་སྐྱེ་མེད་པའི་ཕྱིར།

།རྒྱུ་ནི་ཆད་པར་ཐལ་བར་འགྱུར།།

16. /'bras bu rgyu yi* 'byung 'jig gi/
/rgyun de srid pa yin 'gyur na/
/'jig la yang skye med pa'i phyir/
/rgyu ni chad par thal bar 'gyur//

[Lha. *gal te 'bras rgyu'i]

16. If the continuity of the rising and passing of cause-effect is becoming, because what has passed will not be created again, it will follow that the cause is annihilated.

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།དངོས་པོ་ངོ་བོ་ཉིད་ཡོད་ན།

།དངོས་མེད་འགྱུར་བར་མི་རིགས་སོ།

།མྱ་ངན་འདས་པའི་དུས་ན་ཆད།

།སྲིད་རྒྱུན་རབ་ཏུ་ཞི་ཕྱིར་རོ།།

17. /dngos po ngo bo nyid yod na/
/dngos med 'gyur bar mi rigs so/
/mya ngan 'das pa'i dus na chad/
/srid rgyun rab tu zhi phyir ro//

17. If things exist essentially, it would be unreasonable [for them] to become nothing. At the time of nirvana [they] would be annihilated, because the continuity of becoming is totally pacified.

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།ཐ་མ་འགགས་པར་གྱུར་པ་ན།

།སྲིད་པ་དང་པོ་རིགས་མི་འགྱུར།

།ཐ་མ་འགགས་པར་མ་གྱུར་ཚེ།

།སྲིད་པ་དང་པོ་རིགས་མི་འགྱུར།།

18. /tha ma 'gags par gyur pa na/
/srid pa dang po rigs mi 'gyur/
/tha ma 'gags par ma gyur tshe/
/srid pa dang po rigs mi 'gyur//

18. If the end stops, it is unreasonable for there to be a beginning of becoming. When the end does not stop, it is unreasonable for there to be a beginning of becoming.

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།གལ་ཏེ་ཐ་མ་འགག་བཞིན་ན།

།དང་པོ་སྐྱེ་བར་འགྱུར་ན་ནི།

།འགག་བཞིན་པ་ནི་གཅིག་འགྱུར་ཞིང།

།སྐྱེ་བཞིན་པ་ཡང་གཞན་དུ་འགྱུར།།

19. /gal te tha ma 'gag bzhin na/
/dang po skye bar 'gyur na ni/
/'gag bzhin pa ni gcig 'gyur zhing/
/skye bzhin pa yang gzhan du 'gyur//

19. If the beginning is created while the end is stopping, the stopping would be one and the creating would be another.

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།གལ་ཏེ་འགག་བཞིན་སྐྱེ་བཞིན་དག།

།ལྷན་ཅིག་ཏུ་ཡང་རིགས་མིན་ན།

།ཕུང་པོ་གང་ལ་འཆི་འགྱུར་བ།

།དེ་ལ་སྐྱེ་བ་འབྱུང་འགྱུར་རམ།།

20. /gal te 'gag bzhin skye bzhin dag/
/lhan cig tu yang rigs min na/
/phung po gang la 'chi 'gyur ba/
/de la skye ba* 'byung 'gyur ram//

[Lha. *ba'ang]

20. If it is also unreasonable for stopping and creating to be together, aren't the aggregates that die also those that are created?

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།དེ་ལྟར་དུས་གསུམ་དག་ཏུ་ཡང།

།སྲིད་པའི་རྒྱུན་ནི་མི་རིགས་ན།

།དུས་གསུམ་དག་ཏུ་གང་མེད་པ།

།དེ་ནི་ཇི་ལྟར་སྲིད་པའི་རྒྱུན།།

21. /de ltar dus gsum dag tu yang/
/srid pa'i rgyun ni mi rigs na/
/dus gsum dag tu gang med pa/
/de ni ji ltar srid pa'i rgyun//

21. Likewise, if the continuity of becoming is not reasonable at any of the three times, how can there be a continuity of becoming which is non-existent in the three times?

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།འབྱུང་བ་དང་འཇིག་པ་བརྟག་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་སྟེ་རབ་ཏུ་བྱེད་པ་ཉི་ཤུ་གཅིག་པའོ།།

/'byung ba dang 'jig pa brtag pa zhes bya ba ste rab tu byed pa nyi shu gcig pa'o//