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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:] Having led [me] inside a certain […], [she] gave excellent and lavish hospitality with food and drink, as to a guest, and [said]: 'At present, in Uḍḍiyāna, the Buddha Akṣobhya is teaching Dharma. Nephew [or grandson], if you request the teachings with faith [?], I—'
Transcription notes in English
Main text, line 1 (top)
string: ཞིག་གི་ནང་དུ; note: The referent of 'a certain …' is on the preceding page and is not supplied here.; alternatives: [] string: དད་པས[?]; note: The ending after dad pa is not securely distinguished. This tentative reading supports 'with faith'; it must not be treated as a confirmed correction of the OCR.; alternatives: ['དད་པས', 'དད་པད (OCR, possibly erroneous)'] string: ཚ་བོ; note: The word can denote a nephew or grandson; the relationship is not established by this page.; alternatives: ['nephew', 'grandson']
'—will ask permission,' [she] said. Wishing very much to listen, [I] said, 'Good.' 'Then let us go,' [she] said; [an uncertain phrase concerning moving or following ahead [?]], and [we] went. In the centre of that city, upon a high and spacious throne-seat of precious materials—
Transcription notes in English
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string: མདུན་དུ[?]་བསྙེགས[?]; note: The letters between 'then let us go' and 'having gone' are crowded. This is a tentative visual reading, not a confidently recovered clause. The precise action and its subject remain unresolved.; alternatives: ['མདུན་དུ་བསྙེགས (tentative)', 'བསྙེབས (OCR suggestion for the verb; unconfirmed)']
—[I] saw the Blessed One Akṣobhya, far more extraordinary than [the form] previously meditated upon in the mind, teaching Dharma in the midst of an ocean-like assembly. Intoxicated with joy and bliss, [I was] passing into a faint—
Transcription notes in English
Main text, line 3
string: བརྒྱལ་འགྲོ་; note: The clause continues at the beginning of L4 with 'experienced something like …'; it does not assert that an actual loss of consciousness occurred.; alternatives: []
—[I] experienced something like that. Then Bhari Ma [?] said: 'Nephew [or grandson], you [?] stay here for a while. I will go and ask the Buddha for permission [uncertain verbal ending [?]].' Saying this, she went, and permission was obtained. Again she led [me] to the Buddha's feet—
Transcription notes in English
Main text, line 4
string: བྷ་རི་མ[?]; note: Tentative reading of the name. The consonant stack and syllable divisions require expert confirmation. 'Bhari Ma' is only a provisional transliteration, not an identification.; alternatives: [] string: ཁྱོད[?]; note: Tentative reading 'you'; the OCR gives dang at this position. The address and instruction to remain here are readable.; alternatives: ['ཁྱོད', 'དང (OCR; unconfirmed)'] string: ཞུས་འོང་གིས[?]; note: The request for permission is readable, but the ending before zer is not securely resolved. The translation gives the readable intention without treating the ending as certain.; alternatives: ['གིས (tentative)', 'གས (OCR fragment; unresolved)']
—having come before [him], [I] prostrated. Having requested blessings, [I] sat in his presence listening to Dharma. With a smile on his face, for a little while he remained gazing steadily [?] at me; from this, [I thought] that with affection for me—
Transcription notes in English
Main text, line 5
string: སྤྱན་ཙེ་རེ[?]; note: The expression describes a steady gaze, but the consonant in the adverb is uncertain. The tentative tsa reading is retained rather than silently normalized.; alternatives: ['སྤྱན་ཙེ་རེ', 'སྤྱན་ཅེ་རེ']
—he was thinking [of me]: that thought arose. In all the Dharma he taught, he spoke only of the lineages, accounts of births, deeds and liberation-stories of all the Buddhas and bodhisattvas; because he was speaking thus, [my] body hairs stirred … [Continues on the next page; the final Tibetan phrase remains grammatically open.]
Transcription notes in English
Main text, line 6 (bottom)
string: བ་སྤུ་གཡོ་བའི་; note: The page ends with a genitive construction. The translation conveys the readable image of body hair stirring but cannot supply the missing governing expression or continuation.; alternatives: []
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 encounter with Akshobhya centres on hearing stories of lives, deeds and liberation. Missing adjacent context leaves the speaker and narrative frame uncertain; this leaf alone does not establish whether the episode is a dream or waking experience.
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 encounter with Akshobhya centres on hearing stories of lives, deeds and liberation. Missing adjacent context leaves the speaker and narrative frame uncertain; this leaf alone does not establish whether the episode is a dream or waking experience.
Passages behind this reading: L1 · L3 · L6