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:] …then [?]. If [you] ask [?], I shall answer the questions: my clan is Khyung-po; [my] family is Jo-sras. I myself am Milarepa. At first I also performed black deeds; in the middle I also performed white ones. Now [unclear ending; continues into line 2]…
Transcription notes in English
Main text, line 1
string: ནས[?]; note: The opening fragment is isolated after the page-opening ornament. Its reading is uncertain; the preceding sentence is unavailable.; alternatives: ['ནས', "ནའང — the OCR hint's reading"] string: འདྲི་ན[?]; note: The interrogative verb is readable, but the following ན is not securely distinguished in the print. The conditional translation is provisional.; alternatives: ['འདྲི་ན', 'འདྲི followed directly by དྲི་བ'] string: ད་ལྟ་[?]; note: ད་ལྟ is readable. The remaining line-end characters and punctuation are unresolved. The OCR gives ད་ལྟ་བས་ལ; that ending has not been adopted as an established reading.; alternatives: [] string: རུས / རིགས / ཇོ་སྲས; note: The Tibetan terms are retained without identifying a historical genealogy. English 'clan' and 'family' are provisional distinctions between རུས and རིགས. Jo-sras is transliterated; Russian Джосэ is an approximate pronunciation.; alternatives: []
…free from both white and black; ‘the basis of karma’ [?] … ‘something unchanging’ [the grammatical relation is unresolved]. If those things are explained at length, there are many circumstances—some that make one weep, some that make one laugh…
Transcription notes in English
Main text, line 2
string: ལས་ཀྱི་གཞི་[?] མི་འགྱུར་བ་ཞིག་ཡིན་ཞིང་; note: The dense span between གཞི and མི་འགྱུར cannot be transcribed securely. The marker represents an unspecified number of syllables, not a single missing character. Consequently, the grammatical connection between 'the basis of karma' and 'something unchanging' remains unresolved. No complete doctrinal statement has been reconstructed.; alternatives: [] string: ལ་ལ་ངུ་བྲོ / ལ་ལ་དགོད་བྲོ; note: The image supports the weeping/laughing contrast. The OCR's additional ནི particles were not retained because they were not securely visible.; alternatives: [] Editor: The reader explicitly left the grammatical relation unresolved. Separate the two fragments so the draft does not assert that karma's basis is unchanging. Restore the exact [?] marker in both pivot languages. Tibetan is unchanged.
“Although it could be told, it is of little use, so let this old man sleep at ease,” he said. Rechungpa again bowed [?] and made this supplication: “Precious Jetsun, at first, through austerity and resolve…”
Transcription notes in English
Main text, line 3
string: ཕྱག་བཙལ[?]; note: The act of bowing or prostrating is clear, but the exact written form of its verb is uncertain. The OCR form is retained provisionally rather than silently standardized.; alternatives: ['ཕྱག་བཙལ', 'ཕྱག་འཚལ'] string: ཞེ་བཅད་; note: The expression continues with དྲག་པོས at the start of line 4; it is not a complete sentence here.; alternatives: []
“…with fierce [resolve], you put the profound instructions into practice and devoted yourself to one-pointed practice. Thus the way things abide has now become manifest, and you have reached where phenomena are exhausted. From within an unchanging state, changing [deeds…] [?; continues into line 5]”
Transcription notes in English
Main text, line 4
string: མི་འགྱུར་བའི་ངང་ནས་འགྱུ་བའི[?]; note: This is a provisional visual reading of the crowded final clause. In particular, ངང་ནས and the final verbal form require expert verification. The translation follows this candidate and must remain marked uncertain.; alternatives: ['འགྱུ་བའི', 'འགྱུར་བའི'] string: གནས་ལུགས / ཆོས་རྣམས་ཟད་ས; note: The translations remain literal working renderings. No additional doctrinal interpretation of these expressions is supplied.; alternatives: []
“…you do not perform [such] deeds, and that you do not move [?] is indeed agreed by all. Yet [there are] the lineage Khyung-po, the family Jo-sras, and the reason you were given the name Mila; how, after your birth, you first performed black deeds; and in the middle…”
Transcription notes in English
Main text, line 5
string: མི་སྐྱོད་པ[?]; note: The reading 'not moving' is provisional. The exact consonant group and final consonant of སྐྱོད require verification. No interpretation such as 'unshakable realization' has been substituted for the uncertain wording.; alternatives: ['མི་སྐྱོད་པ', 'མི་སྐྱོ་བ'] string: བར་; note: Continues as བར་དུ across the line break, with དུ at the beginning of line 6.; alternatives: []
“…how you performed white [deeds] in the middle: the circumstances that make one weep and laugh in connection with [these accounts] have an inconceivable purpose. Therefore, considering me and all sentient beings with great compassion…” [Continues on the following page.]
Transcription notes in English
Main text, line 6
string: བདག་སོགས་སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་ཐུགས་བརྩེ་བ་ཆེན་པོས་དགོངས་ཏེ།; note: The image places this clause after ཡོད་པ་ལགས་པས. The OCR output displaced it before the beginning of line 6. Its image order is restored here.; alternatives: [] string: དགོངས་ཏེ།; note: This is a continuing construction. The remainder of the request is not present on this page and has not been supplied.; 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.
Milarepa contrasts earlier black deeds and later white deeds; Rechungpa asks him to tell the circumstances for others' benefit. The following grammar is unresolved: neither immutable karma nor freedom from ethical responsibility follows from it.
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.
Milarepa contrasts earlier black deeds and later white deeds; Rechungpa asks him to tell the circumstances for others' benefit. The following grammar is unresolved: neither immutable karma nor freedom from ethical responsibility follows from it.
Passages behind this reading: I1CZ20410019-L1 · I1CZ20410019-L2 · I1CZ20410019-L3 · I1CZ20410019-L6