འཕགས་པ་ཡ་ག་མད་པའ་ཟ་མ་ཏག་རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད་ཀྱ་སྙང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.16
The Basket Without Words, The Illuminator’s Matrix intro.16
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The Basket Without Words was translated from Chinese into Japanese by Hokei Izumi and published in the Kokuyaku Issaikyō (Japanese Translations of the Scriptures) series. In 1986, Sakai Shinten published a comparative study of the three extant Chinese translations and a Japanese translation of the Tibetan. Sakai reads “the basket without words” (anakṣarakaraṇḍaka) as referring to the Sanskrit letter a, described in the Buddha’s teaching to the bodhisattva Dṛḍhamati in Upholding the Roots of Virtue (Kuśalamūlasaṃparigraha, Toh 101)²¹ as “a point of explanation for designating the gate devoid of attributes” that all phenomena possess.²²