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Matreya · I1CZ2041 · v1

Heritage archive

Milarepa: ten pages, traceable sources and small, reviewable contributions.

མི་ལ་རས་པའི་རྣམ་མགུར།

mi la ras pa'i rnam mgur/ · BDRC W1CZ1988 / MW1CZ1988

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Milarepa: translation and reading notes

Ten nonconsecutive leaves from the life and songs of Milarepa, with provisional transcription, translation and a separate editorial interpretation. These excerpts do not tell the whole life story.

The main thread

Why tell a life story? In these excerpts, Rechungpa and the gathered listeners ask for it so that the teacher's example may benefit others. Devotion is linked with diligence, wisdom, compassion and practice. References to earlier harmful and later virtuous deeds suggest change, but the selected pages do not contain the complete account of that change.

Visions, miracles and poetic images belong to the text's religious narrative. Reading their literary purpose does not independently establish the events described. The unclear passage about black and white deeds does not justify harm or establish that karma is unchanging.

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Source and method

The scan is the reference. A historical OpenPecha OCR linked by BDRC was used only as a reading aid. The provisional English reading is the pivot for the other translations; errors can propagate. Tibetan retains its transcription, while Sanskrit is a modern translation. Unclear spans and incomplete sentences remain marked. No specialist has approved these readings.

English pivot and notes · Aligned text data · OpenPecha I5E6DA852 ↗

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Source and rights

BDRC explicitly lists W1CZ1988 as public domain without other restrictions. This concerns this edition only. CC0 in the source record applies to metadata, not automatically to scans.

BDRC · Source and rights ↗ · BDRC source ↗ · JSON

These are ten received PNG representations from volume I1CZ2041, not archival master TIFFs. The edition date is unspecified. This varied sample comes from accessible first and last pages; it is not a representative OCR benchmark.

Task

Start with layout and line boundaries. Transcribe faithfully, mark uncertainty with [?], and keep normalisation separate. A reviewer must inspect the exact submitted version.

20–30 minutes: inspect one selected page, identify its regions or transcribe a few lines. Mark uncertainties; do not silently correct the source.

Participate in research →

Matreya does not train models or send these contributions to external AI providers in this pilot. Any future proposal requires a separate rights and permission check, with intended uses disclosed.