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Chuje Ngawang Pelden (b. 1806) (ACIP S0982-1, f. 2a).<br />

In these works, “the example” (dpe) comes before “necessity” and before<br />

“philosophical school”; “refutation” and “opponent” are one term as<br />

“refutation of the opponent”; “their words” appears as “rejecting the<br />

words” (tsig dor); and “reason” is “false refutation” (ltag chod)—which again<br />

comes to sixteen total terms.]<br />

STONG NYID BDUN CU PA RAB BYED BDUN PA LAS 'PHROS SHING,<br />

SKYE 'JIG LA SOGS PA'I RNAM GZHAG 'THAD PAR BSTAN PA'I TSUL<br />

YOD DE,<br />

Now there is a way in which <strong>The</strong> Seventy Verses on Emptiness takes off from<br />

the seventh chapter of <strong>The</strong> Root Text on Wisdom, and in which it<br />

demonstrates that the whole way that things work—the way that things<br />

grow, or stop, and so on—is all perfectly correct.<br />

RAB BYED BDUN PA LAS,<br />

,RMI LAM JI BZHIN SGYU MA BZHIN,<br />

,DRI ZA'I GRONG KHYER JI BZHIN DU,<br />

,DE BZHIN SKYE DANG DE BZHIN GNAS,<br />

,DE BZHIN DU NI 'JIG PAR GSUNGS,<br />

,ZHES<br />

<strong>The</strong> seventh chapter says,<br />

<strong>The</strong>y have spoken that<br />

<strong>The</strong> way in which things start,<br />

And the way in which they stay,<br />

And the way in which they end,<br />

Are all the same as a dream,<br />

An illusion, the city of the spirits.<br />

SKYE 'JIG GNAS GSUM RANG BZHIN GYIS MED PAR BSTAN PA NA,<br />

Now suppose the point of these lines is to say that none of these three—

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