འཕགས་པ་ཁྱའ་བཞའ་ཏང་ང་འཛན་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.74

notes.74

74. At this point there is a repetition in the Tibetan—in all available Kangyur editions—of five verses and the following narrative paragraph, which are found verbatim a little earlier at folios 172.b–173.a (), concerning the Buddha going to the edge of the Black Line Hell. The repetition makes little narrative sense here and appears to be an error. As a result we have decided to omit it from the translation. The omitted section reads: Then those who had received the teaching spoke these verses: “We have discovered the noble Dharma, Inexhaustible, free of grasping, Unceasing, and uncorrupted; Now we are soothed, our pain transcended. “With understanding, he discovered the way things are. Knowing beings’ abilities, He teaches causes and conditions. He has a deep love for beings. “The omniscient one removes our pain. He nourishes us, he gives us the cure. The perfect Buddha has tamed us. He has shown us how to transcend suffering. “Our eyes, our lamp, Will very soon pass away. Who then will liberate millions of beings From the torment of being continuously revived? “He is the great physician who removes all pain, The sustainer of all that lives, Who nourishes beings And ensures an end to bad rebirth.” The Blessed One then took a place at the edge of the Great Black Line Hell and radiated a great light that lit up the beings living there, releasing many thousands of them and sending them to the higher realms. In the same way, he released many thousands of beings from the Great Crushing Hell, the Wailing Hell and the Great Wailing Hell, the Hell of Heat, and the Hell of Intense Heat. He sent them to the higher realms and established them on the path that transcends suffering.