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:] …the one(s) who [preceding action missing] and the listeners [unreadable phrase]: those signs seemed to me to be a signal to request the venerable one's life story for the benefit of beings—‘Do request it’ [?]. Thinking, ‘I must certainly ask,’ an uncommon devotion to the guru…
Transcription notes in English
Body, line 1
text: མཁན; issue: The page begins with the end of an expression. The preceding verb is absent, so the activity of this person or these persons cannot be established from this page.; alternatives: []; translation_effect: The missing activity has not been supplied as 'speaking' or 'teaching'. text: ཉན་མཁན་[?]་གྱི; issue: The multi-syllable group between ཉན་མཁན and གྱི cannot be transcribed confidently. The OCR's བྷརིམ་དདཀུན is not accepted as a reliable reading.; alternatives: ['The group may begin བུ་མོ་, but the complete reading is unresolved.']; translation_effect: The qualifier or identification of the participants remains untranslated. text: ཀྱི[?]; issue: The consonant in the genitive particle after རྗེ་བཙུན is uncertain.; alternatives: ['གྱི']; translation_effect: No material difference in the working translation. text: ཞུས་ཤིག[?]; issue: The syllable following ཞུས is tentative. The image suggests an imperative expression, while the OCR gives ཞུས་ཀྱི.; alternatives: ['ཞུས་ཀྱི']; translation_effect: The explicit imperative 'Do request it' is tentative; the surrounding clause clearly concerns a sign to request the life story.
Such [devotion] arose, and he prayed from the depths of his heart and the centre of his bones. He remained for a little while in a state of meditation. Again, within an experience in which sleep and clear light mingled, [there were figures] wearing the ornaments and attire of Oḍḍiyāna…
Transcription notes in English
Body, line 2
text: དར་ཅིག; issue: This visible spelling is retained without changing it to a more familiar spelling.; alternatives: []; translation_effect: Rendered as 'for a little while'. text: ཨུ་རྒྱན་གྱི་རྒྱན་དང་ཆ་ལུགས་ཅན་གྱི; issue: The phrase continues into line 3, which identifies the figures. Bracketed wording in the translations supplies only the grammatical connection.; alternatives: []; translation_effect: No appearance, identity, or action beyond the adjacent visible text has been added.
Five beautiful young women—white, blue, yellow, red, and green—were seated in a row facing Rechungpa. One said, ‘It appears that Milarepa's life story will be told tomorrow morning, so let us go to listen.’ One said, ‘The person making the request…’
Transcription notes in English
Body, line 3
text: ན་ཆུང; issue: Read from the image as 'young'; the OCR's initial ལྷནཆུང is not retained.; alternatives: []; translation_effect: The women are not called goddesses here solely on the basis of the OCR. text: ཞུ་བ་པོ; issue: The question continues at the beginning of line 4.; alternatives: []; translation_effect: The unfinished question is preserved across the line boundary.
‘…who is there?’ she asked. One said, ‘His great sons, his heart disciples, will make the request [?].’ As she said this, they all reportedly looked towards Rechungpa with smiling eyes. One said, ‘Since everyone is eager [?] to hear this wondrous Dharma, we…’
Transcription notes in English
Body, line 4
text: འོང[?]; issue: The final consonant is not fully secure. The image is provisionally read as འོང; the OCR gives འོད.; alternatives: ['འོད, as supplied by the OCR, but not adopted as a secure reading']; translation_effect: The future or prospective force of 'will make the request' is tentative. text: སྤྲོ་བས[?]; issue: The consonant stack and syllable division are tentative. The OCR compresses this as སྤོབས.; alternatives: ['སྤོབས, the OCR reading, remains unconfirmed']; translation_effect: 'Since everyone is eager' depends on the provisional reading སྤྲོ་བས. text: མིག་འཛུམ་ཤིག་ཤིག; issue: The expressive phrase describes smiling or narrowed eyes; it does not explicitly state the observers' motives.; alternatives: []; translation_effect: Rendered literally as 'with smiling eyes', without adding an explanation of the gesture.
‘…too would do well to make a supplication,’ she said. One said, ‘It is fitting for the great sons to request the life story. To us falls the spreading and safeguarding of his teaching.’ Having said this, they disappeared like a fading rainbow. After that, Rechung[pa]…
Transcription notes in English
Body, line 5
text: བབ་པ; issue: The visible form is retained rather than silently changed to བབས་པ.; alternatives: []; translation_effect: Understood as a responsibility or task falling to someone. text: རས་ཆུང; issue: The name is divided by the physical line boundary; པ begins line 6.; alternatives: []; translation_effect: The bracketed ending in Rechung[pa] is supplied from the visible beginning of the next line.
[Rechung]pa too arose from clear light. Dawn had broken in the sky, and the sun had risen brightly [?]. Rechungpa thought, ‘Those signs of the five Tsering sisters also seem understandable’ [?]. Having thought this, [his] meditation… [Continues on the following page.]
Transcription notes in English
Body, line 6
text: ལྷག[?]; issue: The final consonant is uncertain. The OCR gives ལྷག; the image does not securely exclude ལྷང.; alternatives: ['ལྷང']; translation_effect: 'Brightly' is a provisional rendering of the adverbial expression. text: གིས[?]; issue: The short group between འདུག and དགོངས་ནས is not securely resolved. The OCR reading is retained provisionally; no unsupported replacement is supplied.; alternatives: []; translation_effect: The precise grammatical linkage of the reported thought remains uncertain. text: ཚེ་རིང་མཆེད་ལྔ; issue: The expression names the five Tsering sisters; its component meaning is 'five long-life sisters'.; alternatives: []; translation_effect: The name is retained without importing identities or explanations from another source. text: ཐུགས་དམ; issue: Only this noun is visible before the page ends. Its following verb or construction is absent.; alternatives: []; translation_effect: The translations remain incomplete. The Russian bracketed connection is grammatical scaffolding, not a transcription of a visible verb.
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.
Rechungpa's request is motivated by benefit to beings. A scene mixing sleep and clear light reinforces the wish to hear the life story and preserve the teaching; it also provides a narrative reason for the coming request.
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.
Rechungpa's request is motivated by benefit to beings. A scene mixing sleep and clear light reinforces the wish to hear the life story and preserve the teaching; it also provides a narrative reason for the coming request.
Passages behind this reading: G-L1 · G-L2 · G-L3 · G-L5 · G-L6