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Now a person of the middle track who aspires primarily to that deep state
of peace where they have—only for their own sake—destroyed the truths of
suffering and the source of suffering within them is what we call a “selfmade
Buddha.”
DE LA 'DIR SANGS RGYAS 'BRING ZHES BRJOD PA DE YANG, SANG
RGYAS KYI SKAD DOD BUDDHA ZHES PA DE,
Now as for the expression “mid-level Buddhas” [sangye dring], the Sanskrit
word for sangye here is “Buddha.”
SANGS RGYAS PA, PADMA RGYAS PA, GNYID SAD PA, KHONG DU
CHUD PA LA SOGS PA DU MA LA 'JUG CING,
The point is that the Sanskrit word buddha can apply to a number of things:
to becoming enlightened; to the opening of a lotus; to waking up from
sleep; and to comprehending something.
DE'I STENG DU TA TVA BSNAN PAS, DE KHO NA NYID KHONG DU
CHUD PA LA 'JUG PAS,
And if you add the word tattva to buddha, then what you come up with is
“one who comprehends thusness.”
RANG RGYAL DE KHO NA NYID KHONG DU CHUD PA'I RTOGS PA
LA GNAS PA 'BRING PO YIN PAS, DE NYID DU BSGYUR BAR BYA BA
YIN GYI, SANGS RGYAS 'BRING ZHES PA 'GYUR CUNG ZAD MI 'TSAM
PA YIN PA'I PHYIR,
Self-made Buddhas then are people who have reached a middle-level
position of realization in their comprehension of thusness, and so really the
phrase should have been translated that way—translating it as “mid-level
Buddhas” doesn’t quite fit.
RANG RGYAL 'BRING POR 'JOG PA'I RGYU MTSAN YOD DE, NYAN
THOS LA BLTOS NAS TSOGS GNYIS KYI GOMS PA BSRING NUS PA
DANG,