UMA CHIDUN current - The Knowledge Base

PA'I STONG NYID RGYAS PAR BSTAN,
And this is because what they teach explicitly, and at great length, is
emptiness: that thing which one must surely realize in order not only to
reach omniscience, but even just freedom.
SBAS DON LA RIGS CAN GSUM GYI MNGON PAR RTOGS PA'I NGO BO
NGES PA, GRANGS NGES PA, GO RIM NGES PA RGYAS PAR BSTAN
PA'I PHYIR,
It is also true because what they teach implicitly, again at great length, is
how the essence of the realizations of those of the three tracks is fixed; and
how their number is fixed; and how their order is fixed.
'DIR DE GNYIS KYI NANG NAS, DNGOS BSTAN STONG NYID KYI RIM
PA GTAN LA 'BEBS SHING, DE YANG MGON PO KLU SGRUB KYIS ZAB
MO RTEN 'BYUNG GI DE KHO NA NYID LUNG RIGS KYI SGO NAS
GTAN LA PHAB PA'I RJES SU 'BRANGS NAS GTAN LA 'BEBS PA YIN TE,
What we will undertake here is to set forth an entire treatment of one of
these two: emptiness, the explicit subject matter of these teachings. And to
do so, we will follow the way in which the Savior, Nagarjuna, utilized both
scriptural authority and logic in order to establish the meaning of that
profound object: the suchness of dependent origination.
MGON POS SPYIR RGYAL BA'I BSTAN PA RGYAS PA'I PHYIR DU, MDO
SNGAGS KYI GSUNG RAB DU MA ZHIG MDZAD CING, KHYAD PAR
DU YANG ZAB MO RTEN 'BYUNG GI DE KHO NA NYID LUNG RIGS
KYI SGO NAS GTAN LA PHAB PA'I PHYIR DANG,
We will do so because, in general, the Savior composed a great number of
perfect works on both the open and the secret teachings, all for the purpose
of spreading the teachings of the Victors. And more specifically, he
specialized in setting forth this profound meaning of the suchness of
dependent origination, using both scriptural authority and logic.