འཕགས་པ་ཤས་རབ་ཀྱ་ཕ་རལ་ཏ་ཕྱན་པ་ཀ་ཤ་ཀ་ཞས་བྱ་བ notes.25

notes.25

25. The Stok Palace version has gsal ba (“illuminate”) as opposed to bsal ba (“dispel”). The latter reading, that within the perfection of wisdom there is nothing whatsoever to dispel, corresponds well with the clause that follows, which states that within the perfection of wisdom there is nothing to undertake. Thus, the two clauses can be taken as a pair that expresses how, in the perfection of wisdom, nothing is to be negated or taken up. It is worth noting the ambiguity of the terms “dispel” and “undertake,” since it is not clear in what sense “dispel” and “undertake” are intended. They can refer to practices to be discarded or adopted, or to the negation or assertion of certain properties (such as the property of inherent existence). Our translation allows for either interpretation. The Chinese reads, “[As] all phenomena are equal in nature, the perfection of wisdom is equal in nature” (yi qie fa xing ping deng, bo re bo luo mi yi ping deng 一切法性平等，般若波羅蜜亦平等).