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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.
[Continuing discourse:] “Please do not remain inactive[?] in body, speech and mind, but speak at length. You vajra brothers and sisters gathered here[?], and the listeners[?] gathered in faith, also, in my[?] making this supplication …” [Continues in L2.]
Transcription notes in English
Body, line 1 (top)
སྙོམས་ལས་[?]: uncertain spelling; སྙོམ་ལས་ is an alternative. The tentative sense is inactivity or indolence; spelling is not silently normalized. ཁྱེད་འདིར་འཚོགས་ཀྱི་[?]: central ink merging affects the exact letters and particle; the reading is provisional. ཉན་མ་[?]: provisional ‘listeners’; the second syllable is not fully secure. The same expression appears in L2. ཀྱང་ངའི་[?]: provisional reading of the small cluster preceding གསོལ་བ; the OCR's ཁྱད་པའི་ does not securely match the image. The line ends with པའི་; ‘assistance’ belongs to the next image line.
“… I ask you to lend assistance.” Having thus made the supplication, [the speaker] made many prostrations. Then the [illegible group designation][?] and the faithful listeners[?] also made many prostrations [and said]: “Holy person, …[?] small/young …” [The final phrase continues in L3; its construction is uncertain.]
Transcription notes in English
Body, line 2
The [?] after དེར་ is an unreadable span, not a single missing syllable. The OCR proposes སྲས་བུཚིན་; some strokes may support སྲས་, but the full designation cannot be confirmed under the heavy ink. དད་ཅན་ is visually preferable to OCR ནད་ཅན་; this is not translated as ‘sick people’. ཉན་མ་[?]: same uncertain designation as L1. After སྐྱེས་བུ་དམ་པ་, the letters before ཆུང་ cannot be reliably resolved. OCR suggests དེས་; this has not been adopted as established text. The literal fragment ‘small/young’ is retained without inventing its referent.
“… please grant [it] in accordance with the supplication made [by …], and please turn the wheel of Dharma[?].” When they again made this supplication, the venerable one spoke: “Since you all hold [this] so important and earnestly in mind[?] …” [Continues in L4.]
Transcription notes in English
Body, line 3
Initial པས་ completes the preceding line's unresolved expression; the identity or grammatical role of the supplicant is not supplied. ཆོས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་ is readable. The sequence བསྐོར་དུ་གསོལ་ཞེས་[?] is provisional because the middle of the line is heavily overprinted; the request to turn the Dharma wheel is clearer than its exact syllable sequence. Final ཡིད་[?] is provisional; OCR has ཡད་. The following line begins འཛིན།. The English and Russian connect these across the line break without treating the uncertain vowel as settled.
“… hold [it in mind]. There is no need to keep [it] secret, so I shall explain. As for my clan and lineage: among a large pastoral community in the northwestern direction of Ü[?], [there was one] of the Khyungpo clan, of the lineage of the old mantra tradition, a son of a lama [called or titled] José[?] …” [Continues in L5.]
Transcription notes in English
Body, line 4
དབུས་ནུབ་བྱང་ཕྱོགས་[?]: provisional reconstruction of visible but merged letters, aided by OCR དབུ་ནུབྱང་ཕྱོགས་. The exact geographical qualification remains uncertain. ཁྲོད། is preferred from the image; OCR inserts ནས་ here, which has not been retained. རུས་ཁྱུང་པོ། is supported by the image, unlike OCR རུས་ཁྱད་པ།. ཇོ་སྲས་[?]: provisional name or title, repeated in L6. Its precise interpretation is not established. ‘Old mantra tradition’ renders the visible སྔགས་རྙིང་མ་པ་ without supplying additional lineage history.
“… a yogin who, being cared for by his meditational deity, possessed mantra power[?]. He went to circumambulate sacred places throughout the land and to visit sacred supports [of worship]. He arrived at a place called [unreadable name][?] in the region of Chö Latö Jang[?], and …”
Transcription notes in English
Body, line 5
སྔགས་ནུས་[?]: provisional; the image appears to support mantra power more strongly than OCR དག་ནུས་, but the first syllable is not secure. The central pilgrimage phrase has thick merged strokes; its readable wording is rendered, without identifying particular shrines or places. གཅོད་ལ་སྟོད་བྱང་[?]: geographical reading is provisional, especially the first syllable; transliteration in the translations does not identify a modern place. The [?] after ཕྱོགས་ covers a particle and the unreadable place-name. OCR suggests གཅུང་བསྤྱི་; possible visible components include གཅུང་/དུང་ and བྱི་, but no complete reading is secure. བར་[?] before ཕྱག་ཕེབས་: final r is uncertain; བ་ is an alternative.
“In that country he subdued spirits and obstructing entities and bestowed blessings. Because he possessed power, very great benefit[?] arose; those to be trained and his activities became extensive. He was given the name Khyungpo José[?], and, having stayed for several years[?] …” [The connective continues onto the next page.]
Transcription notes in English
Body, line 6 (bottom)
ཕན་ཤིན་ཏུ་[?]: provisional reading of the merged central cluster; OCR has པན་བཞིན་ཏུ་. The extent of benefit is clear enough for a tentative translation, but the exact letters require review. ཇོ་སྲས་[?]: provisional name/title; OCR has ཛེསྲས་. No identification with a known historical figure is imposed. ལོ་འགའ་[?]: ‘several years’ is provisional; OCR ལོ་བགའ་ is corrupt. The number/duration should be checked by a Tibetan reader. Final བཞུགས་པས། is connective; the next event is not present on this page and has not been supplied.
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 gathered listeners join the request. Milarepa agrees to speak and begins with lineage and ancestry. The story is thus presented as a response to listeners, not merely as a list of achievements.
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 gathered listeners join the request. Milarepa agrees to speak and begins with lineage and ancestry. The story is thus presented as a response to listeners, not merely as a list of achievements.
Passages behind this reading: L1 · L3 · L4