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.
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Provisional reading
Incomplete AI-assisted draft; not expert reviewed. The ten pages are non-consecutive. [?] flags an unresolved span or nearby tentative reading; see the notes. Missing text has not been reconstructed. Translations use a provisional English reading and can inherit its errors. A language version is not a complete or certified translation of the page.
[Continued from the preceding page:] and the deed of passing beyond sorrow, [into] supreme[?] peace. In the first [division]: the deed of his birth, together with the origin of the paternal ancestral lineage and the reason why the lineage was named Mila.
Transcription notes in English
Body, line 1, left to right
string: མཆོག་གྱུར[?]; note: Tentative reading of the compact letters after མཆོག; the OCR also gives གྱུར. The epithet is provisionally translated as 'supreme'. No alternative is established from the image.
The deed whereby, while he was young, his father passed away[?], his relatives rose as enemies, he was deprived of all outer and inner[?] possessions, and he fully took the truth of suffering into his own experience. Urged by his mother's command, the [ritual] activities of forceful action … [continued in L3].
Transcription notes in English
Body, line 2, left to right
string: ཡབ་སྐུ་ཐིམ་པས[?]; note: The letters between ཡབ and པས are not securely resolved. སྐུ་ཐིམ is a tentative image/OCR reading, not a corrected spelling. 'His father passed away' is a provisional contextual rendering; the exact wording needs expert inspection. string: ཕྱི་ནང[?]; note: Tentatively read as 'outer and inner'; the first syllable is ink-obscured. The OCR's གླིནང is not adopted as an established reading. string: མངོན་སྤྱོད་ཀྱི་; note: The phrase continues into L3. 'Activities' in the translation anticipates the visible ཕྲིན་ལས at the beginning of L3; it does not supply an omitted clause.
[Continuing L2:] the deed of accomplishing those activities and eliminating the enemies. Beginning with the first of these three [deeds][?], the beginning of the wondrous deeds, together with the introductory setting, is presented as follows.
Transcription notes in English
Body, line 3, left to right
string: མཛད་པ་དང་གསུམ་གྱི་དང་པོ་ནས་བརྩམས་ཏེ[?]; note: Heavy ink obscures parts of the middle of this line, especially the enumeration and transition after མཛད་པ. This is a tentative continuous reading supported in part by the OCR; individual obscured letters cannot all be verified. No missing wording has been supplied from another edition.
Emaho! At one time, thus have I heard. That very great Heruka, the master of yoga[?], universally renowned by the name of the venerable Mila Zhepa Dorje ('Laughing Vajra'), [was] in the country of Nyanang, at [the place] called Dropa Cave[?] … [continued in L5].
Transcription notes in English
Body, line 4, left to right
string: རྣལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་དབང་ཕྱུག[?]; note: Several letters in this title are merged by heavy ink. The proposed reading is plausible from visible remnants and the OCR, but not every letter is secure. string: གཉའ་ནང་གྲོད་པ་ཕུག[?]; note: The place-name is tentative, especially ནང and གྲོད. The OCR gives corrupted གཉའ་ནད་ཕོདཔ་ཕུག. Nyanang/Dropa is a working transliteration, not an independently verified identification.
…at the sacred abode so called: the man Rechung Dorje Drakpa, and Repa Zhiwa Ö, Ngandzong Repa, Seban Repa, Khyira Repa, Drigom Repa, Lengom[?] Repa, Repa … [the last name continues in L6].
Transcription notes in English
Body, line 5, left to right
string: གླན་སྒོམ[?]; note: The first syllable of this name is tentative; གླན is supported by the OCR but the stacked letters are not fully distinct. 'Lengom' is a provisional pronunciation, not a normalized Tibetan spelling.
…Sangye Kyab [completing 'Repa' in L5]; Gshingom[?] Repa; Dampa Gyakphuwa[?]; the teacher Shakya Guna[?], and others: his spiritual sons, yogis, heroes of the [spiritual] grounds[?]; and Lekse Bum, and[?] … [continued on the following page].
Transcription notes in English
Body, line 6, left to right
string: གཤིན་སྒོམ[?]; note: The vowel of the first syllable is uncertain: tentative གཤིན, with གཤེན a possible alternative. The transliteration preserves the tentative reading rather than silently correcting the name. string: དམ་པ་རྒྱགས་ཕུ་བ[?]; note: The spelling of the name after དམ་པ, particularly རྒྱགས, is not fully secure. No alternative is established from this image. string: ཤཱཀྱ་གུ་ན[?]; note: Tentative image reading; the OCR instead gives ཤཱཀྱ་མུ་ན. The initial consonant of the penultimate syllable needs expert verification. The name has not been normalized to Śākyamuni. string: ས་གནས་ཀྱི[?]; note: Segmentation and the initial ས are uncertain. The translation 'heroes of the spiritual grounds' follows this tentative reading; an interpretation as bodhisattvas on the stages remains provisional. string: ལེགས་སེ་འབུམ་དང་[?]; note: The final syllable is tentatively དང ('and'); the OCR reads དར. If དར is correct, it may belong to the name or an unfinished expression. The next page has not been supplied or reconstructed.
How to read this leaf
Matreya's editorial interpretation, prepared with AI assistance and not specialist-reviewed. It is separate from the translated source and is not an authoritative doctrinal commentary.
The outline connects family loss, dispossession and suffering with the beginning of violent deeds. It introduces the story's circumstances; these lines alone do not recount full repentance or later transformation.
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.
How to read this leaf
Matreya's editorial interpretation, prepared with AI assistance and not specialist-reviewed. It is separate from the translated source and is not an authoritative doctrinal commentary.
The outline connects family loss, dispossession and suffering with the beginning of violent deeds. It introduces the story's circumstances; these lines alone do not recount full repentance or later transformation.
Passages behind this reading: L1 · L2 · L3